1st Edition
Sport and Urban Space in Europe Facilities, Industries, Identities
1. Prologue: Sport and Urban Space in Europe: Facilities, Industries, Identities Thierry Terret and Sandra Heck
Part I: Sport Development and Urban Spaces
2. Cycling in the City? Belgian Cyclists Conquering Urban Spaces, 1860–1900 Stijn Knuts and Pascal Delheye
3. Sport, Space and the Social Construction of the Modern City: The Urban Impact of Sports Involvement in Barcelona (1870–1923) Xavier Pujadas
4. Sports in the German University from about 1900 until the Early Years of the Federal Republic of Germany: The Example of Muenster and the ‘Westfaelische Wilhelms-University’ Michael Krüger
Part II: Sport Policies and Local Identity
5. Creating Places for Sport in Interwar Europe. A Comparison of the Provision of Sports Venues in Italy, Germany and England Daphné Bolz
6. Sport, Urbanity and Communal Socialism: The Case of ‘Red Zurich’ (1928–1949) Christian Koller
7. Myth or Reality of the Revier Derby? Schalke 04 versus Borussia Dortmund (1947–2007) Sandra Heck, Paul Nierhaus and Andreas Luh
Part III: Sport Facilities, Engineers and Workers
8. ‘Bringing the Alps to the City’: Early Indoor Winter Sports Events in the Modern City of the Twentieth Century Annette R. Hofmann
9. Civil Engineering and the Development of Sport and Leisure in Swiss Cities (1900–1950) Laurent Tissot
10. Towards an Internationalisation of Workers’ Training: Reducing Injury and Enhancing Efficiency in the Industrial Context of the 1950s Yohan Blondel and Thierry Terret
Biography
Thierry Terret is a professor of Sport history at the University of Lyon, France, and the rector of Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean.
Sandra Heck is a postdoc researcher at the Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany, and the General Secretary of the International Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport.
