1st Edition
Interurban Knowledge Exchange in Southern and Eastern Europe, 1870–1950
Introduction: Searching for Best Practices in Interurban Networks
Eszter Gantner, Heidi Hein-Kircher and Oliver Hochadel
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
Cathleen M. Giustino
2. In Search of Best Practices Within the Confines of the Russian Empire: The Port City of Berdyansk
Igor Lyman and Victoria Konstantinova
3. Travelling Architecture: Géza Maróti’s Art Between the Regional and the Global
Eszter Gantner
4. The Exchange of Urban Planning Theory and Practice Along the Austro-Hungarian Periphery: Zagreb as a Case Study
Tamara Bjažic Klarin
Part II: Aiming at the Healthy City: Experiments with Best Practices
5. Learning from Smaller Towns: Moscow in the International Urban Networks, 1870–1910
Anna Mazanik
6. Best Practices from a Polish Perspective: Improving Health Conditions in Lviv Around 1900
Heidi Hein-Kircher
7. Improving Health in a Mediterranean City: Barcelona and the European Network (1931–1937)
Celia Miralles Buil
Part III: The New Urban Space: Experiences and Institutions
8. A Discourse of Modernity?: Warsaw’s Press on Urban Poverty (1880s–1910s)
Clara Maddalena Frysztacka
9. Going East: Gustave Loisel and the Networks of Exchange Between Zoological Gardens Before 1914
Oliver Hochadel
10. Architectural Conversations Across Europe’s Borderlands: Transnational Exchanges Between Barcelona and Bucharest in the 1920s
Lucila Mallart
11. In the Driver’s Seat of Modern Urbanization: A Case Study of Automotive Development in the Emerging City of Barcelona, c.1900–1950
Barry L. Stiefel
12. Crossing the Iron Curtain: Milan’s Museum of Technology and Transnational
Exchanges Before and After World War II
Elena Canadelli
Afterword: Goodbye to Center and Periphery
Cor Wagenaar
Biography
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).
