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Volume III uncovers the radical transformations of European cities from 1850 until the twenty-first century. The volume explores how modern developments in urban environments, socio-cultural dynamics, the relation between work and leisure, and governance have transformed urban life. It highlights these complex processes across different regions, showcasing the latest scholarship and current challenges in the field. The first half provides an overview on the urban development of European regions in the West, North, Centre, East-South-East, and South, and the interconnectedness of European urbanism with the Americas and Africa. The second half explores major themes in European urban history, from the conceptualisation of cities, their built fabric and environment, and the continuities, rhythms, and changes in their social, political, economic, and cultural histories. Using transborder, transregional, and transdisciplinary approaches to discern traits that characterise modern and contemporary European urbanism, the volume invites readers to reconsider major paradigms of European urban history.

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Dorothee Brantz is Professor of Urban History and Director of the Center for Metropolitan Studies at the Technische Universität Berlin. Her research centers on questions of urban environmental transformations, human-animal relations, and the history of war and peace. Gábor Sonkoly is Professor of History and Geography at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He has published widely on urban history, urban heritage, and critical history of cultural heritage.

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