Objectives and program of the english edition of the journal of "Urban People" ****************************************************************************************** * Blanka Soukupová ****************************************************************************************** The French anthropologist Marc Augé presented the city (large or small) as one of the thre (in his terminology, one of the three new "worlds") of contemporary (postmodern) anthropology. However, whether we call the world a new "fi eld" usually called in Czech ethnology, an "organism," this comparison will always contain a ce but, at the same time, mutual dependency and isolation from other worlds or organisms. The a socially attractive, scientifi cally open topic. The center of attention of the anthropo international journal Urban People, born at the Faculty of Humanities of Charles Universit the city (primarily European and, particularly, Central European) drawn into the process o and postmodernization. Urban People, meanwhile, deliberately emphasizes comparative research of modern and premod territory. The journal endeavors to analyze turning points in the lives of cities, ask que the correspondence of these moments to "great history" and the powerpolitical invasion of while respecting the individuality of every city. At the same time it presumes a certain u of continuously reshaped urban space and the common fate of socalled socialistic cities. T considered the basic residential and administrative unit of modern and postmodern society tension with suburbs or small towns and with villages or satellites that became an importa expression of the volatile relationship of people to the city. The journal answers questio these residential units were and are some sort of unintended byproduct of the city and whe circumstances they are drawn into urban territory. Comparative research of changes in the modern and postmodern city is not primarily concent its urban development, on the development of science and technologies in the cities, on th of literary, musical and artistic directions born in the city, etc., but on the developmen interconnected relationship of the city to its inhabitants. In other words: from our point city represents a phenomenon that is created by people and, at the same time, that produce of "urban" person, whereas we expect national and regional, and also social, professional, modifications. This duality of urban identity comes from the fact that people in a city enter into a sort with previous generations that created this space and, at the same time, attempt, by means further development of the city, to address future generations. This journal analyzes such communication. In this connection, what seems especially signifi cant to us is relations t penetrate the present while they may, though they need not, contradict each other. Conscio can, for example, lead one - in the words of Rudolf Jaworski, the German historian - to et territory. Ethnic structuralization of the Central European city is connected with the tra national efforts to national movements. The attempt to project ideologicalpolitical formation onto space appears the moment one ca modern nation. Borders between different districts are then created primarily by social ci The journal attempts to analyze those somewhat mental maps that function as pillars of ide professional, political, local, etc.). At the same time it investigates how they are stren we think of the city not only as a space for intergenerational encounters, but also as a s genesis of new directions of thought, new ideologies and their related institutions, new a and relationships. The journal analyzes the function of the city during its further format positive and negative impact on the atmosphere of the city. Our aim is to discover the tas changing relationships to historical places in the city. As we understand the city, it is the property of the majority population and of minorities handicapped groups of the population. The criteria of "minoritiness" are varied: social st in an ethnic and regional group or in a group with similar feelings, opinions, health prob origin, etc. In Urban People, the "city" means the environment shared and symbolized, to a autonomous, and pluralistically and individually experienced experienced. Besides the real exists the virtual city, a city of fantasies, a dreamlike city that lives in memories (pri shared, reproduced and embellished). The journal analyzes the relation between the city (o the municipal authorities on one hand and the home on the other. It asks which attributes city must have. The aim of the journal is both a comparative analysis of the development of theoreticmetho approaches to the city and the recognition of the reasons for the survival of certain "nat in urban anthropology. Through the prism of specifi c scholarly orientation we hope to com characterizing society (mainly Central European and European) as a whole. Suggested issues identity - memory - minorities; The city and myth. Blanka Soukupová [ URL "LM-364.html "]