Urbs - Magyar Várostörténeti Évkönyv 12. (Budapest, 2017)
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Abstracts 429 tion’s architectural course written by the Jesuit mathematician Christian Rieger, who taught civil and military architecture during the time of Schilson’s studies. In the first volume of this work, published in 1756, Rieger discussed the layout and embellishment of cities, at that time an unusual subject for a book on civil architecture, moreover in the said chapter he mainly relied on Marc-Antoine Laugier’s treatise Essai sur l’Archi- tecture, published in Paris just three years earlier. The second volume about military architecture (1758) contained Schilson’s dedication to Empress Maria Theresa, as well as the young aristocrat’s responses from his final exam, which suggests that he financially supported the publishing of Rieger’s book. The second textbook had been written by Johann Heinrich Gottlob von Justi who is considered as one of the most important representatives of Cameralism, the school of mercantilist thinking dominant in the German lands, and who is said to have had a significant influence on the reform policies of the Viennese court in the second half of the eighteenth century. Justi’s book titled Die Grundfeste zu der Macht und Glückseligkeit der Staaten (1760) contains a chapter on the function, categorization, appropriate location and constmction of towns and cities. Regarding street layouts he favors the grid pattern and his suggestions are mostly based on considerations of security and safety, such as policing and the protection against fires and floods. The conclusion argues that the establishment of the Lipótváros in Pest cannot be adequately interpreted solely from the point of view of architectural or urban history, nor from narratives focusing closely on the actions of public authorities, but they need to be put in the context of the complex discourse of reform policies seeking to identify the tasks and possibilities of governmental action. Ágnes Ordasi Victim or not? The issue of Fiume’s autonomy during the tenure of F. G. Corossacz as mayor (1914—1915) In the dualist period, beside the Hungarian royal governor, the current podestá- that is the mayor at the head of the city council - was the most important person in the administration of Fiume. The podestá not only had broad powers and received substantial fees but had a special social prestige and exceptional influence over the public life of Fiume. Accordingly, the election of the mayor was one of the most important events of Fiume. Nevertheless, occasionally the fierce rivalries and negotiations accompanying the elections that developed among the Budapest government, the governor of Fiume and the leaders of a small dominant circle exceeded the local party-political debates. In the debate, both the modernizing state and the city council that protected the city’s autonomy expressed their own, often conflicting interests and priorities. My paper is focused on the extraordinary rise to power of Francesco Gilberto Corossacz, who became podestá
