CONTENTS
Introduction HEINZ REIF and MARCUS FUNCK
Reshaping the European Cities: The Staging of Political Transformation WIMS BLOCKMANS
The City and the German Nation from the Middle Ages to the Present: The Origins of the Modern Civil Society in the Urban Tradition WILHELM RIBHEGGE
The Spatial Organization of Markets and Fairs in Italian Cities 15th to 17th Centuries PAOLA LANARO
Gateways to the Sun: The Urban Arches of Louis XIV VICTORIA SANGER and ISABELLE WARMOES
Metropolitan Axes in Russia,Petersburg and Moscow: Outward and Inward Russian Capitals ALEXANDER SHEVYREV
"Paying the Rent:" A Long term Perspective of Changes in an Everyday Pattern HAKAN FORSELL
Georg Simmel and the Berlin Boheme at the Crossroads of Modernity DIETMAR JAZBINSEK and RALF THIES