No. 19 (2016): Urban history, urbanistic history. Europe, twentieth century

The first great urban movements, exhibitions, congresses and competitions in Europe turn one hundred years old, something that has justified several scientific events that encourage discussions about the history of urbanism and the cities during the twentieth century. The international scope of these centennial events – the express purpose for some of them, an unintended effect as a matter of priority for others – constitutes the evidence of proof of a urbanistic discourse that, as has been noted by several authors, will traverse and transcend countries and even continents, and will conform the common historical substrate of a great number of local and national declinations of modern urban planning. Those centennial events illustrate the internationalization of the production of representations that, predating the global changes of urban space, link in a very specific manner a concrete moment of urban History (understood as history of the city and urban society), and urbanistic History (understood as history of the construction of urban space).