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L'viv

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L'viv or Lviv  (l-vv, l-vw) or L'vov or Lvov (l-vôv, -vôf)
A city of west-central Ukraine near the Polish border. Founded in 1256, it was captured by Poland in 1340, passed to Austria in 1772, and was retaken by Poland in 1918. The city was ceded to the USSR in 1945. Population: 734,000.


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A year's service could be performed under the tutelage of, say, the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, or the White Fathers (Missions of Africa) in Tanzania, or the Studite nuns in L'viv, or whatever.
At far left is a rendering of Jozef Gocar's ``Project for a General Development Plan, Hradec Kralove'' (1925-28), also part of the Getty exhibit, as is, above, Alfred Zachariewicz and Jozef Sosnowski's Ballaban Building, L'viv, Halyc'ka 21'' (1908-10).
Organized around 'The city as form and idea' and 'Modernity and place', the exhibition documents the development of 10 cities -- Vienna Budapest, Prague, Krakow, Zagreb, L'viv, Ljubljana, Brno, Timisoara and Zlin -- between 1890 and 1937.
 
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