CAROLA HEIN is Assistant Professor at Bryn Mawr College in the Growth and Structure of Cities Program. She was trained in Hamburg (Diplom-Ingenieurin) and Brussels (Architecte) and obtained her doctorate at the Hochschule fur bildende Kunste in Hamburg in 1995 on the topic of Hauptstadt Europa. From 1995 to 1999 she was a Visiting Researcher at Tokyo Metropolitan University and Kogakuin University, researching the reconstruction of Japanese cities after World War II and the Western influence on Japanese urban planning. She has published and lectured widely on topics of contemporary and historical architectural and urban planning in Europe and Japan, and co-authored the volume Hauptstadt Berlin and co-edited Rebuilding Urban Japan after 1945 (2003).

• Preface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: European Identities and the Capital City QuestionImagining Built EuropeEnvisioning the Center: World Cities and International Buildings as Precursors to the European Capital DebateUrban Visions and Architectural Symbols for a United Europe 1945-1968Building the European Communities From Within: Competitions for a Capital in 1952 and 1958Building Europe's ImageStrasbourg: Parliamentary Capital of EuropeLuxembourg: Judicial Capital of EuropeBrussels: Executive Capital of EuropeConclusion: Rethinking Capitals and EuropeAppendixGlossary of European Organizations and InstitutionsSelected Biographical NotesTimelineArchival ReferencesSelect BibliographyIndex

CAROLA HEIN is Assistant Professor at Bryn Mawr College in the Growth and Structure of Cities Program. She was trained in Hamburg (Diplom-Ingenieurin) and Brussels (Architecte) and obtained her doctorate at the Hochschule fur bildende Kunste in Hamburg in 1995 on the topic of Hauptstadt Europa. From 1995 to 1999 she was a Visiting Researcher at Tokyo Metropolitan University and Kogakuin University, researching the reconstruction of Japanese cities after World War II and the Western influence on Japanese urban planning. She has published and lectured widely on topics of contemporary and historical architectural and urban planning in Europe and Japan, and co-authored the volume Hauptstadt Berlin and co-edited Rebuilding Urban Japan after 1945 (2003).

• Preface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: European Identities and the Capital City QuestionImagining Built EuropeEnvisioning the Center: World Cities and International Buildings as Precursors to the European Capital DebateUrban Visions and Architectural Symbols for a United Europe 1945-1968Building the European Communities From Within: Competitions for a Capital in 1952 and 1958Building Europe's ImageStrasbourg: Parliamentary Capital of EuropeLuxembourg: Judicial Capital of EuropeBrussels: Executive Capital of EuropeConclusion: Rethinking Capitals and EuropeAppendixGlossary of European Organizations and InstitutionsSelected Biographical NotesTimelineArchival ReferencesSelect BibliographyIndex

CAROLA HEIN is Assistant Professor at Bryn Mawr College in the Growth and Structure of Cities Program. She was trained in Hamburg (Diplom-Ingenieurin) and Brussels (Architecte) and obtained her doctorate at the Hochschule fur bildende Kunste in Hamburg in 1995 on the topic of Hauptstadt Europa. From 1995 to 1999 she was a Visiting Researcher at Tokyo Metropolitan University and Kogakuin University, researching the reconstruction of Japanese cities after World War II and the Western influence on Japanese urban planning. She has published and lectured widely on topics of contemporary and historical architectural and urban planning in Europe and Japan, and co-authored the volume Hauptstadt Berlin and co-edited Rebuilding Urban Japan after 1945 (2003).

• Preface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: European Identities and the Capital City QuestionImagining Built EuropeEnvisioning the Center: World Cities and International Buildings as Precursors to the European Capital DebateUrban Visions and Architectural Symbols for a United Europe 1945-1968Building the European Communities From Within: Competitions for a Capital in 1952 and 1958Building Europe's ImageStrasbourg: Parliamentary Capital of EuropeLuxembourg: Judicial Capital of EuropeBrussels: Executive Capital of EuropeConclusion: Rethinking Capitals and EuropeAppendixGlossary of European Organizations and InstitutionsSelected Biographical NotesTimelineArchival ReferencesSelect BibliographyIndex