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Author:   Eszter Gantner ,  Heidi Hein-Kircher (Herder-Institut, Germany) ,  Oliver Hochadel (Institución Milà i Fontanals-CSIC, Barcelona)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.485kg
ISBN:  

9780367609580

ISBN 10:   0367609584
Pages:   318
Publication Date:   01 August 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Introduction: Searching for Best Practices in Interurban Networks Part I: Building a Modern City: Networks in Urban Planning 1. The Ghetto and the Castle: Modern Urban Design and Knowledge Transfer in Historic Prague Before and After 1918 2. In Search of Best Practices Within the Confines of the Russian Empire: The Port City of Berdyansk 3. Travelling Architecture: Géza Maróti’s Art Between the Regional and the Global 4. The Exchange of Urban Planning Theory and Practice Along the Austro-Hungarian Periphery: Zagreb as a Case Study Part II: Aiming at the Healthy City: Experiments with Best Practices 5. Learning from Smaller Towns: Moscow in the International Urban Networks, 1870–1910 6. Best Practices from a Polish Perspective: Improving Health Conditions in Lviv Around 1900 7. Improving Health in a Mediterranean City: Barcelona and the European Network (1931–1937) Part III: The New Urban Space: Experiences and Institutions 8. A Discourse of Modernity?: Warsaw’s Press on Urban Poverty (1880s–1910s) 9. Going East: Gustave Loisel and the Networks of Exchange Between Zoological Gardens Before 1914 10. Architectural Conversations Across Europe’s Borderlands: Transnational Exchanges Between Barcelona and Bucharest in the 1920s 11. In the Driver’s Seat of Modern Urbanization: A Case Study of Automotive Development in the Emerging City of Barcelona, c.1900–1950 12. Crossing the Iron Curtain: Milan’s Museum of Technology and Transnational Exchanges Before and After World War II. Afterword: Goodbye to Center and Periphery

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"Eszter Gantner (1971–2019) was a research fellow at the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe from 2013 through 2019. Heidi Hein-Kircher is head of the department ""academic forum"" at the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe in Marburg, Germany. Oliver Hochadel is a historian of science and a tenured researcher at the Institución Milá y Fontanals de Investigación en Humanidades (CSIC, Barcelona)."

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