Interurban Knowledge Exchange in Southern and Eastern Europe, 1870-1950 Gantner Eszter
Interurban Knowledge Exchange in Southern and Eastern Europe, 1870-1950 Gantner Eszter Around 1900 cities in Southern and Eastern Europe were persistently labeled "backward" and "delayed." Allegedly,…
Specifikacia Interurban Knowledge Exchange in Southern and Eastern Europe, 1870-1950 Gantner Eszter
Interurban Knowledge Exchange in Southern and Eastern Europe, 1870-1950 Gantner Eszter
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. It shows that cities as diverse as Barcelona, Berdyansk, Budapest, Lviv, Milan, Moscow, Prague, Warsaw and Zagreb pursued their own agendas of modernization. This edited volume fundamentally questions this assumption.
The solutions they gleaned from other cities were eclectic to fit the specific needs of a given urban space and were thus often innovative. In order to solve their pressing problems with respect to urban planning and public health, they searched for best practices abroad. 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
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