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.

• 1. Introduction Doro; 2. Urban History: The Growth and internationalization of an interdisciplinary; Part I. Regions Regions and Global Connections: 3. Modernity and the patterns of Urban life: Western Europe (France, Low Countries); 4. Britain and Ireland: Exemplar or warning?; 5. Rapid Latecomers: Growth, crisis and welfare in Northern European cites; 6. Central Urbanisation and Cityscapes in Central Europe: Germany, the Habsburg territories and Switzerland); 7. Dubious Legacies: Cities of Eastern, East-Central and South-Eastern Europe, 1850–2000; 8. From 'Delayed' to Slow: Cities in Southern Europe (Italy and Iberia) from the mid-nineteenth century; 9. Transatlantic conversations: The Interconnected urbanism of Europe and North America; 10. Europe and Latin America: Urban exchanges, professional interactions, opacities; 11. European Urbanism from Africa: Exploring research directions; Part II. Themes Conceptualising Cities; 12. Growth and Reinvention: Industrial cities in Europe and its Colonial Empires; 13. Emblems of National Success? Capital cities; 14. The Fascist City: Words and stones; 15. The Socialist City: Urbanism under State ownership and Central planning; 16. From Idea to Imaginary: The postindustrial city in theory and practice; The urban fabric and environment: 17. Planning and the infrastructural turn: European urbanism in a global; 18. Architecture's urban dimension: The Paris Opera house, the soviet panel block, the Bilbao Guggenheim, and other buildings that make a city; 19. Infrastructure, engineering, and planning: From materiality to urbanization; 20. Constructing Authenticity: The heritagisation of European cities and towns; 21. War vision versus experience: War and peace in the urban environment; 22. (Un)Covering the ground: Urban ecologies of soils and plants; 23. Urban Animalities: Human-animal-encounters shape the modern city; 24. On the urbanness of social class: Class, empire and nation in European urban societies, 1850–2022; 25. Navigating gender and space in the town: Place, identity and traversing the town; 26. Ghosts of the ghetto: Racial and ethnic spaces in global urban Europe; 27. Migration as urban DNA: Cities as engines of mobility and integration; 28. Urban industries and economic activities: General patterns, historical particularities, and regional specificities; 29. Business as usual? Consumption and entrepreneurship in the city; 30. Housing and everyday life: Coping strategies; 31. Ensuring urban food security: Municipal policies for food and health in European cities; 32. Choreographies of power in transition: Shifts in urban governance in European cities of the 19th and 20th centuries; 33. Insurgency interconnected: Urban political conflicts between the Local, the National, and the Global; 34. Religion in modern urban Europe: Revisiting the Notion of the secular city; 35. Producing knowledge, using knowledge: Science, technology, and medicine in the European City; 36. Leisure in the modern city: Expansion, interaction, integration; 37. Arts, literature, and the European City: Representations and interactions; 38. Towards an urban history of emotions: Centring the felt experience of place; Index.