Introduction: The Continent of Urban Planning and Its Changing Historiography
Max Welch Guerra　

Part 1: The Emergence of Contemporary Urban Planning

1. Historiography avant la lettre? On the Uses of History in Early Town Planning Manuals [11]
Helene Bihlmaier 　

2. Urban Hygiene and Slum Clearance as Catalysts: The Emergence of the Sanitary City and Town Planning [27]
Dirk Schubert

3. The Reverse of Urban Planning: First Steps for a Genealogy of Informal Urbanization in Europe [39]
Noel Manzano

4. The Beginning of the Urbanism Teaching in the Schools of Architecture of Madrid and Barcelona: From Trazado, Urbanización y Saneamiento de Poblaciones to Urbanología [51]
María Cristina García-González

5. Rethinking Urban Extension and International Influences: Spain and the International Housing and Town Planning Congresses during the 1920s [62]
María Castrillo Romón and Miguel Fernández-Maroto

6. Influences of European Urban Planning in post-war Spain: Pedro Bidagor Collection of the Historical Service Archive of the Official College of Architects of Madrid [72]
Alberto Sanz Hernando

7. Aménagement, embellissement et extension des villes: The French Law of 1919/1924 on Urban Plans [80]
Laurent Coudroy de Lille

8. Bending Interests and Blending Media in the Inter-war Modernism of Central Europe: Wohnung und Werkraum Exhibition [91]
Marcelo Sagot Better

Part 2: Functions and Practices of Urban Planning under Changing Social Orders

1. Swedish Planning and Development in the 20th and 21st Centuries [105]
Ann Maudsley

2. Bratislava under Fascist Dictatorship [118]
Martin Pekár

3. French Tools for Urban Heritage Protection in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century: From Groundbreaking Systematization to a General Trend toward Integration of Planning Instruments [127]
Víctor Pérez-Eguíluz

4. History and Heritage: The Reconstruction of Blitzed Cities [139]
Peter J. Larkham

5. Planning GDR and Czechoslovakia: The Scale Question under State Socialism [153]
Azmah Arzmi

6. Transportation and Urban Planning under State Socialism: The Tramway in Medium-Sized Cities of the USSR, GDR and CSSR in the 1960s and 1970s [163]
Elvira Khairullina and Luis Santos y Ganges

7. Contemporary European City-Making Process: Materialisation-Emptying-Regeneration on Large Land Properties [175]
Federico Camerin

8. Elective Affinities: The Recovery of Historic Seminal Ideas of European Urbanism for a Sustainable Urban Design in the Late 20th Century [186]
Juan Luis de las Rivas

Part 3: Interpretation of the Twentieth Century Planning History 

1. Is There a European Planning Tradition? [199]
Stephen V. Ward

2. European Planning History in the 20th century as a Reflexive Concept [207]
Harald Bodenschatz

3. The Anarchist Strain of Planning History: Pursuing Peter Hall’s Cities of Tomorrow Thesis through the Geddes Connection, 1866–1976 [213]
José Luis Oyón and Jere Kuzmanić

4. Mapping Transnational Planning History in Port City Regions – London, Rotterdam, Hamburg [222]
Carola Hein

5. A Look to Transgressive Planning Practices: Calling for Alternative Sources and Actors [235]
Andrea Gimeno

6. Neglected Narratives of Post-war Italian Cities: Actors and Rationalities in the Shaping of the Ordinary Residential Landscape [246]
Gaia Caramellino and Nicole De Togni

7. The End of the Planned City? Urban planning after 1989 [256]
Florian Urban

8. Interpreting 20th Century European Planning History: Eight Theses [268]
Max Welch Guerra