Rosemary Wakeman is Professor of History at Fordham University, USA. She is the author of Practicing Utopia: An Intellectual History of the New Town Movement (2016) and The Heroic City: Paris 1945-1958 (2009). She is also the editor of Themes in Modern European History since 1945 (2003).

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1. The Grand Tour of Urban Europe (1815)Chapter 2. Travels through Industrial LandscapesChapter 3. Entertainments and Romantic Dreamscapes (1815-1848)Chapter 4. Roaming the MarketsChapter 5. Urban Reform and the Planned CityChapter 6. Wandering City Streets Chapter 7. Sightseeing in the Big City (Fin-de-Siècle)Chapter 8. Electric Cities and Avant-Garde Itineraries (1920s-1930s)Chapter 9. Modernism and the City (1920s-1930s)Chapter 10. Searching through the Rubble (1939-1950s)Chapter 11. Car Trips through the City (1960s-1970s)Chapter 12. Crossing Urban Boundaries after the Berlin WallConclusionBibliographyIndex

The very scope of the European urban experience over the past two centuries poses an enormous challenge to anyone attempting to write a history of it. It is a testament to Wakeman’s skills as a historian that she does so successfully ... [An] important study that clarifies the combination of factors that shaped the Europe of today. Recommended for libraries specializing in urban studies and the history of modern Europe. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.