“Emerging Cities”: Knowledge and Urbanization in Europe’s Borderlands 1880-1945—Introduction

Abstract

The article focuses on the interaction of knowledge transfer and urbanization in the emerging cities of East and Central Europe 1880-1945. Doing so, the article is arguing that in the East European borderlands, this interaction can be understood as reception and creative development of impulses transformed by local socioeconomic and cultural factors, such as multiethnicity, multiconfessionalisation, and nationalizing processes, which are specific for these regions. Due to this, the article offers the concept of “emerging cities” on the specific model of urbanization with a focus on knowledge transfer and circulation in this historical and geographical region beyond the center–periphery scheme.

Social and educational movements and their impact on the school building programme in Budapest in around 1900

“…The promise of social progress and rapid industrial and infrastructural development turned these cities into cosmopolitan metropolises. 43 The reforms and infrastructural investments of the Bárczy era helped transform Budapest into a modern, cosmopolitan city. New buildings with representative and public functions emerged during this period, illustrating the outstanding developments that took place under Bárczy's leadership.…”