Cities Beyond Borders: Comparative and Transnational Approaches to Urban History

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Drawing on a body of research covering primarily Europe and the Americas, but stretching also to Asia and Africa, from the mid-eighteenth century to the present, this book explores the methodological and heuristic implications of studying cities in relation to one another. Moving fluidly between comparative and transnational methods, as well as across regional and national lines, the contributors to this volume demonstrate the necessity of this broader view in assessing not just the fundamentals of urban life, the way cities are occupied and organised on a daily basis, but also the urban mindscape, the way cities are imagined and represented. In doing so the volume provides valuable insights into the advantages and limitations of using multiple cities to form historical inquiries. Cover Contents List of Figures List of Maps List of Contributors Preface Introduction 1 ‘Every Time I Describe a City’: Urban History as Comparative and Transnational Practice Part I 2 The Seven Cs: Reflections on Writing a Global History of Urban Segregation 3 Port Cities in Crisis: Considering Urban Governance, Modernity and Migration in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Montreal and Liverpool in a Transnational Context 4 Choreographies of Urban Life: Mapping the Social History of Cities 5 Rebuilding the Cities Destroyed in the Second World War: Growing Possibilities for Comparative Analysis Part II 6 Urban Governance and Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century Port Cities in France and England 7 Comparing Urban Reform in London and Brussels 8 Town Planning and Municipal Growth in Late Colonial Bombay: Towards a Transnational Perspective 9 Whose ‘Urban Internationale’?Intermunicipalism in Europe, c. 1924–36: The Value of a Decentred, Interpretive Approach to Transnational Urban History 10 The (Trans)National Question: Nazi Spatial and Urban Planning Reflections 11 Cities of Fear: The Globalization of Insecurity in the Age of the Gated Community 12 Reflections: Putting the ‘Trans’ into Transnational Urban History Bibliography Index