Despre teoria centru – periferie. Urbanitate şi modernitate în Timişoara.

The study aims to highlight and analyze some aspects of modernity in the city of Timișoara in strong relation with the theoretical approach of the highly used in social sciences dialectics of center and periphery. Under focus of my research lays the investigation of the urban space in a peripherical city of the Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy, analyzed from the point of view of historical and urban development. By using local literature, urban monographies written by the local intellectual elite and German newspapers, scope of the study is to comprise some of the major urban transformations occurring in the 19^th and the beginning of the 20^th century Timișoara. The research questions gravitates along the subject of sharing cultural goods and thoughts from the imperial cities of Vienna and Budapest to the more peripherical Timișoara. Of interest for the research is to comprise the Zeitgeist of the time by adapting the urban and architectural transformations in the periphery as are being imitated and adapted to the models of the two imperial and monarchic centers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]