Forty-five finely detailed, ready-to color illustrations depict an Italian peasant couple in wedding dress, children of a German royal family garbed in velvet, an English lord and lady in riding outfits, and more.

This is a multi-disciplinary scientific monograph referring to urban geography, urban regions management, event studies, tourism geography, cultural anthropology and sociology.

This is the first full-length study of relations among the communist states.

The book is an attempt to bridge the gap between the past and the future the vernacular and the contemporary.

Published to accompany the exhibition held at Hayward Gallery 24 September - 15 December 2013, Museum der Moderne-Rupertinum, Salzburg 29 March- 6 July 2014.