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„Flânerie”, cielesność i film W music-hallu. Georges Méliès w świecie modernistycznych przyjemności miejskich

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Tralongo S.

Kwartalnik Filmowy

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2017

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issue 99 Triki, numery specjalne, atrakcje

31-42

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Artykuł stanowi propozycję namysłu nad „rozbitą przestrzenią” music-hallu, rozpatrywaną jako przykład nowej przestrzeni miejskiej, w której na początku XX w. kino jest przedmiotem regularnej konsumpcji w warunkach podobnych do tych, w jakich zachodzi praktyka flânerie. Starając się przywrócić kino architekturze „przechodniej”, jaką kreuje music-hall, autor bada ideę mobilności widzów, wychodząc od tych sposobów zajmowania przestrzeni i korzystania z niej, które podkreślają rolę widzenia i patrzenia (la vision), przechadzania się bez celu i konsumpcji. Okazuje się, że analizowane pod tym kątem filmy Georges’a Mélièsa, jak i te z udziałem Harry’ego Houdiniego, zajmują centralne miejsce w układzie atrakcji zmierzających do ponownego rozbudzenia w widzach strachu przed wypadkiem, a w szczególności przed „kolizją” między tym, co żywe, a tym, co mechaniczne, w przestrzeni, która – jak się wydaje – chroni publiczność przed zagrożeniami bulwarów.

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The article deals with the notion of “broken space” in music-hall, analysed as an example of new urban space, in which, in the beginning of the 20th century, cinema is an object of regular consumption under conditions similar to these in which the practice of flânerie takes place. Trying to restore cinema to the “transient” architecture that music-hall creates, the author explores the idea of audience mobility, starting from the ways in which space is occupied and used, which emphasize the role of seeing and looking (la vision), and aimless wandering without consumption. It turns out that the films by George Méliès and those with the participation of Harry Houdini analysed from this angle, take central place in the constellation of attractions aiming at re-awakening the fear of an accident among the spectators, especially between that which is alive and the mechanical, in space, which it would appear, protects the public from the dangers of the boulevards.

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Urban criteria based on the example of the smallest towns in Poland

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Cudo M.

Miscellanea Geographica. Regional Studies on Development

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2019

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vol. 23

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issue 1

39-46

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The article attempts to develop a preliminary practical framework for urban criteria in terms of the population, economy and spatial location of the smallest towns in Poland. Despite being of little signicfiance, the fact that they lie near the border between being rural settlements and towns makes them an interesting subject for research and more detailed analysis. The current phenomenon of urban status being obtained by ever-smaller settlements is causing conceptual disorder. Therefore, the article may serve as an early contribution to a discussion about the need to denfie and unify urban criteria on a national scale. The qualitative and descriptive guidelines contained in ocfiial acts are insucfiient and too general, which is why quantitative methods were used in the present research. Despite the limited data available, research on the topic of urbanity has proven the imperfection of the Polish administrative system and conrfimed the premise that town status may be conferred inappropriately in numerous cases.

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Polityki miejskie

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Gądecki J., Kubicki P.

Politeja : Pismo Wydziału Studiów Miedzynarodowych i Politycznych Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego

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2014

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issue 1(27)

135-156

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The main subject of this article is the changing status of cities in the contemporary world, and the consequent necessity of creating and implementing coherent urban policies. The authors analyse the changing economical, political and socio‑cultural contexts in macro dimension, which opens new development possibilities for contemporary cities. The authors pay particular attention to the case of Poland, emphasizing the consequences of omissions in the formation of coherent urban policies. In the scenario where there are no such policies, Polish cities become vulnerable to the inconsiderate exploitation of the global capital, as well as to the dominance of short‑term interests of the local political elites undercutting their subjectivity, and thus block the process of the modernization of Poland.

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Sensing spaces, playing places. The sensuous geography of urban creativity

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Petri J.

Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia de Arte et Educatione

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2022

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vol. 17

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issue 375

39-49

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Urban creativity tends to be defined as a driving force of the ongoing changes in modern cities. While being a formally neutral term, the “creative,” in practice usually identifies all “good” sides of processes of urban transformations, especially those concerning the rise of spaces for sensual experiencing. The Creative City makes then a certain promise of aesthetic inclusion, enhanced participation, and autonomy for its citizens and visitors. However, the Creative City itself is neither an autonomous concept, nor the self-sufficient urban entity, but is entangled in economic, organizational, and social aspects of urban performance. All this makes us ask, is its promise trustworthy or rather empty?

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Moral Scens from Urban Life: Moral Perception of Modernity in Imperial Brazil

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Narita F. Z.

Praktyka Teoretyczna

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2017

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vol. 23

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issue 1

269-302

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In this article, I analyze moral perceptions of modernity in Rio de Janeiro between the 1850s and 1860s. Against a long theoretical tradition in the Latin American social sciences that emphasizes nineteenth-century modernity in the region as an opaque process (a mere attempt at imitating the Western European “pure” model), I would like to follow another theoretical path; that is, my analysis focuses on tangible experiences of modernity during the apogee of the Brazilian Empire. This research looks to newspapers, schoolbooks, books, and speeches delivered by the cultural elite in the public sphere. I analyze how moral perceptions of urban life in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro can be articulated into a structure based on processes of education. In other words, beyond the materiality in urban space (public street lighting, oil and gas companies, urban cleanliness, public gardens, etc.), there is an implicit relationship between the inner problems (political turbulence, poverty, and moral management of the urban population) and the moral content of modernity (which can be understood in terms of structural prescriptions). These processes of education, instead of an institution-centered practice concentrated only on schools, elaborate a diffuse set of prescriptions whose nexus is constituted by the content of morality. The paper reflects on the conditions of production and reproduction of modernity in a peripheral area (former colonial space) in the nineteenth century.

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INVENTING URBANITY: URBAN MOVEMENTS IN POLAND

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KUBICKI P.

Society Register

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2020

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vol. 4

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issue 4

87-104

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The article discusses the process of formation and transformation of urban movements in Poland. Conclusions are based on the data collected during the research project “Urban Social Movements in Poland” supported by the National Science Centre. For the requirements of the project was adopted a method of qualitative research using the techniques of in-depth narrative interviews, participant observations and secondary data analysis. The author conducted 30 in-depth interviews with leaders of urban movements from sixteen cities. The article describes the process of structuralization and the creation of the identity of the Polish urban movement and their role on the local political stage, stressing, in particular, their significant role as creators of a new discourse in Polish cities.

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„Kroj“ v postmoderně. Politika identity, inscenování a identifikace

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Egger S.

Národopisná revue (Journal of Ethnology)

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2016

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vol. 26

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issue 3

191 - 200

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The globalized present is significantly characterized by mobilities and an analogy of possibilities. The transmission of images through digital media plays a central role in the communication. The expressions which can be subsumed under the “label of that ethno-cultural” have not become obsolete in an aestheticizing world, but they have been drawing increasing attention since the 2000s. From the ethnographic point of view, the focus on the theme national costume can be anchored between the clichés policy of identity, staging and identification. The contribution will use diverse examples, especially those connected with the Alpine region, to explain which meanings are included in the treatment of specific cuts, traditions and typical patterns, and to which extent the coping with ethno-culturally encoded objects has something to do with the search after a time, spatial or social order.

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Magia, miłość, miasto. Prolegomena do źródeł popularności urban fantasy

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Szymczak-Maciejczyk B.

Colloquia Litteraria

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2022

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vol. 32

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issue 1

87-102

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The urban fantasy genre is currently receiving increasing attention from audiences and researchers. One of the factors contributing to this is the growing reception of fantasy per se. This is also due to the recent phenomenon of paranormal romance, from which – to some extent – urban fantasy is growing and emulating. The combination of fantasy, detective and romance plots and the emphasis on urbanity allows the use of a variety of pop culture tropes and motifs. In this article, I point to these several reasons for the growing popularity of urban fantasy

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Touched by a Mural: Somatic Aspects of Urban Participation

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Petri J.

Art Inquiry. Recherches sur les arts

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2018

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vol. XX (XXIX)

173-184

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The article covers the issue of somatic aspects of street art. The author discusses murals as a source of multi-sensual experience for citizens and also a medium of urban participation. Street art is being presented there as a sphere of dialogue between objectified and social sphere of urban life and private, embodied experience of citizens.

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Artykuł odnosi się do somatycznych aspektów street artu, w szczególności murali. Murale zaprezentowane zostają jak źródło polisensorycznego doświadczenia estetycznego mieszkańców oraz jako medium miejskiej partycypacji. Street rozumiany jest tutaj jako konstytuująca się oddolnie i organicznie przestrzeń dialogu pomiędzy zobiektywizowanymi zakresami społecznego życia w mieście a prywatną, ucieleśnioną sferą doświadczenia estetycznego mieszkańców.

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Miejskość w aspekcie fizjonomicznym na przykładzie nowych miast w Polsce. Studium przypadku województwa zachodniopomorskiego

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Cudo M.

Studia Regionalne i Lokalne

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2021

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issue 1(83)

112-128

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The Physiognomic Aspect of Urbanness on the Example of New Towns in Poland. A Case Study of the Zachodniopomorskie Voivodship

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Poliitilised ökoloogiad ja antropotseen urbaansuse pingeväljade maastikes

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Tarmo P.

Mäetagused

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2022

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vol. 84

7-36

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This article approaches complex relationships between disturbance-based ecologies and processes of urbanisation by focusing on urban fringes and valuation of life-forms within landscapes. The thematic discussion is inspired by changes of the Paljassaare Peninsula in Tallinn, which motivated the author to analytically assemble historical layers, ecological imaginations, and stories of planetary affects. The fieldwork related to the article’s argumentation is mainly based on the ethnographic method bringing together observations, interviews, and thematic narratives. The study indicates that disturbances and non-humans/birds become part of the landscape as intertwined materiality and perceiving-with, which involve tensions between presence and absence, and also tensions between past and future. The environment is not a passive “stage” in the process, but appears through emotional landscapes by creating relations between humans and non-humans. Transboundary flight trajectories of birds widen the perspective on earth-bound connections in urban space and make to rethink ways of co-existing. Urban landscapes linked to the sea accumulate diverse disturbances and ruptures, and their effects can be conflicting and interpretations change in time. The current study reveals tension fields and partial continuity of processes in which the Soviet-era legacy forms just one part in the complex assemblage. The border zone and the closed military-industrial complex in Tallinn coastal terrain generated conditions for disturbance-based ecologies, which have significantly influenced urban landscapes. Interim usages and valued ecologies slowed down effects of urbanisation and gave “voice” to particular characteristics of urban nature through which the Paljassaare Peninsula and migratory corridors of birds became part of a wider urban change. The desired (urban) nature appears as an expression of good and bad ecologies influenced by imaginations about landscapes and infrastructure. The evolvement of green areas and waterfront spaces in post-socialist cities is approached as part of Europeanisation, in which practices of European Union states are smoothly and uncritically adapted. The example of Paljassaare reveals entangled multi-dimensional connections between history, civil-society initiatives, and ideas of spatial planning, which were based on care and enabled the bordering of Natura 2000 bird protection area despite urbanisation pressure. Therefore, urban nature and urban landscapes as contested links between the (post)Soviet heritage and Europeanisation require in-depth analysis for revealing a more complex process than linear transformation. The following of disturbance-based ecologies and longer durations make it possible to problematise the Soviet-era homogenous legacy. Anthropocene traces, as a dominant force of humankind, have materialised in Paljassaare through industry, mining, building of a military complex and infrastructure of urbanisation, which, step-by-step, firmly linked the former islands to the city. Urban spatial futures lean on environmental legacy and simultaneously try to distance from the dark side of legacies. The paradox is that the terrains extensively disturbed by human activities can become meaningful within landscapes in problematising the forces of humankind and the position of humans in the context of the Anthropocene.

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Comparing and contrasting the post-1945 re-building of Warsaw and Minsk city centres

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Martyn P.

Acta Albaruthenica

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2022

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issue 22

251-267

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Вырашальнае значэнне для Варшавы і Мінска мела г. зв “сталінская эпоха” (1948/9–1955/6 у Варшаве; у савецкім Мінску – з 1945 да канца 1950 х), якая характарызавалася інтэнсіўнай забудовай цэнтральных раёнаў. У Варшаве гэта былі кароткія, але вельмі пакутлівыя сем гадоў, цесна пераплеценыя з узнікненнем Польскай Народнай Рэспублікі. Так быў закладзены падмурак для г. зв. сацыялістычнае сталіцы, якая характарызавалася “камуналізацыяй” маёмасці, дзейнасцю руплівых архітэктараў, якія карысталіся прыхільнасцю партыі, а таксама зносам руінаў многіх будынкаў, якія можна было рэстаўраваць – прынамсі, камяніцаў “буржуазна-капіталістычнай” эпохі 1850–1914 гг. Рэканструкцыя ў сталіцы БССР і сёння карыстаецца вялікім прызнаннем у сувязі з яе ператварэннем у мільённы горад. Безаблічная раней, галоўная вуліца набыла характар візітоўкі горада ў выглядзе праспекта Сталіна (цяпер праспект Незалежнасці); часткова рэканструяваны вуліцы Леніна, Энгельса, Карла Маркса і іншыя цэнтральныя камунікацыйныя праспекты. У той час як ключавыя помнікі былі знесены, усё яшчэ адметная архітэктура з 1850–1914 гадоў звычайна рэканструявалася і часта адаптавалася да сталінскай эстэтыкі. “Гістарычны Мінск” пачаў выдумляцца нанава, старанна адбудоўвацца толькі пасля 1991 г. У падсумаванні аўтар звяртаецца да даваеннага архітэктурна-прасторавага характару Варшавы і Мінска, іх разбурэння падчас Другой сусветнай вайны, а таксама наступных этапаў рэканструкцыі пасля ключавое “сталінскае эпохі”, якая вызначыла істотныя рысы гарадской архітэктуры і прасторавай планіроўкі, уведзеных пасля 1945 г.

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Decydujące znaczenie w przypadku Warszawy i Mińska miał tzw. „epizod stalinowski” (1948/9–1955/6 w Warszawie; trwający od 1945 aż do końca lat 50. XX w. w sowieckim Mińsku), charakteryzujący się intensywnymi pracami budowlanymi w dzielnicach centralnych. W Warszawie było to niedługie, lecz bardzo dotkliwe siedmiolecie, ściśle splecione z powstaniem PRL. W ten sposób położono podwaliny pod tak zwaną stolicę socjalistyczną, która zaznaczyła się jako okres „komunalizacji” majątku, działalności zagorzałych architektów cieszących się przychylnością Partii oraz burzenia wypalonych ruin wielu gotowych do odrestaurowania budynków – przede wszystkim kamienic czynszowych z piętnowanej epoki „burżuazyjno-kapitalistycznej” z ok. 1850–1914. Odbudowa w stolicy BSRR wciąż cieszy się dużym uznaniem ze względu na przekształcenie jej w ponadmilionowe miasto. Zatarta w swym dawnym biegu główna ulica nabrała charakteru wizytówki miasta w postaci alei Stalina (obecnie Niepodległości); ulice Lenina, Engelsa, Karola Marksa oraz kolejne centralne aleje komunikacyjne przeszły częściową przebudowę. Podczas gdy kluczowe zabytki zostały zburzone, wciąż wyróżniająca się architektura z ok. 1850–1914 była zazwyczaj poddawana renowacji i nierzadko podwyższana lub dostosowana do estetyki stalinowskiej. „Historyczny Mińsk” zaczął być wymyślany na nowo, z czasem starannie odbudowany dopiero po 1991 r. W podsumowaniu autor nawiązuje do przedwojennego charakteru architektoniczno-przestrzennego Warszawy i Mińska, ich zniszczeń w trakcie drugiej wojny światowej oraz dalszych faz przebudowy, dokonywanych po kluczowym „epizodzie” stalinowskim, który zdecydował o istotnych cechach architektury miejskiej i układu przestrzennego wprowadzonego po 1945 r.

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The so-called “Stalinist episode” (1948/9–1955/6 in Warsaw; 1945 dragged out to the late-1950s in Soviet-held Minsk) was of crucial significance to both cities, being marked by intensive construction work primarily focussed on the respective city centres. In Warsaw, this was a brief and highly-charged seven or so years intricately intertwined with setting up the Polish People’s Republic. The foundations were thus laid for a so-called socialist capital city, characterised by ‘communalisation’ of property, zealous architects enjoying Party favour and ripping down the burnt-out ruins of a great many readily restorable buildings; above all tenement houses from the anathematised «bougeois-capitalist» era of c.1850–1914.Re-building in the capital of the BSSR still enjoys wide recognition for transforming it into a million+ city. The obliterated main street became the showpiece Stalin (now Independence) Avenue; Lenin, Engels, Karl Marks, other central streets undergoing partial redevelopment. While key historic monuments were ripped down, the still prominent remnant architecture from c.1850–1914 was typically restored, heightened or readapted to suit the Stalinist aesthetic. ‘Historic Minsk’ began to be reinvented after 1991. Summary reference is additionally made to the respective pre-1939 and pre-1941 urban-architectural profiles of Warsaw and Minsk, their wartime destruction and continued urban redevelopment beyond the key Stalinist ‘episode’ that had defined vital aspects of the post-1945 built urban environment.

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„Flânerie”, cielesność i film W music-hallu. Georges Méliès w świecie modernistycznych przyjemności miejskich

Urban criteria based on the example of the smallest towns in Poland

Polityki miejskie

Sensing spaces, playing places. The sensuous geography of urban creativity

Moral Scens from Urban Life: Moral Perception of Modernity in Imperial Brazil

INVENTING URBANITY: URBAN MOVEMENTS IN POLAND

„Kroj“ v postmoderně. Politika identity, inscenování a identifikace

Magia, miłość, miasto. Prolegomena do źródeł popularności urban fantasy

Touched by a Mural: Somatic Aspects of Urban Participation

Miejskość w aspekcie fizjonomicznym na przykładzie nowych miast w Polsce. Studium przypadku województwa zachodniopomorskiego

Poliitilised ökoloogiad ja antropotseen urbaansuse pingeväljade maastikes

Comparing and contrasting the post-1945 re-building of Warsaw and Minsk city centres