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"Around 1900 cities in Southern and Eastern Europe were persistently labeled ""backward"" and ""delayed."" Allegedly, they had no alternative but to follow the role model of the metropolises, of London, Paris or Vienna. This edited volume fundamentally questions this assumption. It shows that cities as diverse as Barcelona, Berdyansk, Budapest, Lviv, Milan, Moscow, Prague, Warsaw and Zagreb pursued their own agendas of modernization. In order to solve their pressing problems with respect to urban planning and public health, they searched for best practices abroad. The solutions they gleaned from other cities were eclectic to fit the specific needs of a given urban space and were thus often innovative. This applied urban knowledge was generated through interurban networks and multi-directional exchanges. Yet in the period around 1900, this transnational municipalism often clashed with the forging of urban and national identities, highlighting the tensions between the universal and the local. This interurban perspective helps to overcome nationalist perspectives in historiography as well as outdated notions of ""center and periphery."" This volume will appeal to scholars from a large number of disciplines, including urban historians, historians of Eastern and Southern Europe, historians of science and medicine, and scholars interested in transnational connections."

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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:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367333294

ISBN 10:   0367333295
Pages:   318
Publication Date:   23 October 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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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