Description
Book SynopsisThe Yearbook of Transnational History is dedicated to disseminating pioneering research in the field of transnational history. This third volume is dedicated to the transnational turn in urban history. It brings together articles that investigate the transnational and transatlantic exchanges of ideas and concepts for urban planning, architecture, and technology that served to modernize cities across East and Central Europe and the United States. This collection includes studies about regionals fairs as centers of knowledge transfer in Eastern Europe, about the transfer of city planning among developing urban centers within the Austro-Hungarian Empire, about the introduction of the Bauhaus into American society, and about the movement for constructing paved roads to connect cities on a global scale. The volume concludes with a historiographical article that discusses the potential of the transnational perspective to urban history.
The articles in this volume highlight the movement of ideas and practices across various cultures and societies and explore the relations, connections, and spaces created by these movements. The articles show that modern cities across the European continent and North America emerged from intensive exchanges of ideas for almost every aspect of modern urban life.
Table of Contents1 Searching for Best Practices: Emerging Cities and their Transnational Relations
Heidi Hein-Kircher, Eszter Gantner, and Aleksander Łupienko
2 Between Local and Global: The International Network of the Civil Engineer Imre Forbáth around 1900
Eszter Gantner
3 Little Vienna – Little Budapest: Ring Boulevards of Three Mid-Sized Towns in the Habsburg Empire, 1848-1920
Máté Tamáska
4 Transnational Modernization on the Periphery? The Role of Engineers in the Rise of Modern Lviv (1870‒1914)
Aleksander Łupienko
5 The 1894 Galician Crownland Exposition in Lviv as a Polish Hub of Knowledge Transfer
Heidi Hein-Kircher
6 Perceived Problems and Progress: German Views of American Society around 1900
Andrew Lees
7 Circulating Between Cities: The Transnational Evolutionary Relationship of Good Roads Development
Barry L. Stiefel
8 Popularizing Modernism: The Cold War and the International Style
Cor Wagenaar
9 Urban History and the Transnational Perspective
Alan Lessoff
Index
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