Session and roundtables: Overview

Main Sessions

M1 Between Castile and Portugal, between the Iberian Peninsula and America: trade relations on border cities (13th–17th centuries)

Silvia-María Pérez-González: The exportation of wine and raisins from Jerez de la Frontera at the end of the Middle Ages

Ángel Rozas Espanol: Portuguese merchants in Castile at the beginning of the 16th century: a perspective from Medina del Campo, Toledo and Seville

David Igual-Luis: Across Borders: Castilians and Portuguese in 15th and 16th Century Trade Networks

Maria Asenjo González: Business Opportunity and Urban Supply Forecasting: Andalusian Cities and the American trade in the early 16th century

Joao Nunes: Cross-border trade between Ciudad Rodrigo (Spain) and Portugal in the Modern Period (1500-1640)

Raúl Romero Medina: Toledo and Granada as Paradigm: Artists and Craftsmen in the Iberian Peninsula at the End of the Middle Ages

Pablo Sánchez Pascual: International commerce in the coastal towns of the Principality of Asturias during the period of the Spanish Habsburgs (1517–1700)

M2 Cities and Catastrophe: The Urban Response

Rosa Salzberg: Grinding to a halt? Mobility and immobility in Venice during the 1575–7 plague pandemic

Salvatore Valenti: Engineering the Tiber: Floods and the transformation of Rome, 1870–1926

Giulia Assalve: After the catastrophe: the Ligurian earthquake of 1887 and the reconstruction proces

Patrik Németh: Renovation or Reconstruction? The Metropolitan Board of Public Works and the Rebuilding of Budapest After the Second World War (1945–1948)

Malgorzata Popiolek-Rosskamp: Postwar Landscape without War. Dealing with the Former Military Areas after the Withdrawal of Soviet Troops from Berlin and Brandenburg in the 1990s

David Martin Lopez - Katerina Chatzikonstantinou: Reconstruction or keeping devastated as memorial: the two aesthetics ways of the urbanism of Francoist Regime

Vassilis Colonas: Reconstruction after earthquakes and genius loci

M3 Interrogating Historical Value: A Place for People and the Past in Urban Heritage Conservation

Nadia M. Anderson: Cultural Cartography as a Method for Countering Cultural Displacement and Preserving Urban Heritage

Mesut Dinler: Unofficial Perception and Management of Heritage in the Peripheries of Urbanized Landscapes

Pierre Wenzel: Cementing heritage in Dakar (Senegal), a dwellers' perspective

Olena Zhukova – Olesya Shagovets: Methods of Urban Heritage Revitalisation: Experience from Norrkoping and Vadkoping (Sweden) and Their Application in the Preservation Practices of Kharkiv's Urban History (Ukraine)

M5 Houses, households, and housing conditions in the Early Modern town

Anna Paulina Orlowska: A house is a house is a house. On the way to a consistent definition for comparative urban studies

Liliana Castilho: Housing typologies and conditions in Portuguese cities in the early modern period

Ondřej Haničák: The physical structure of town-houses in the cities of Austrian Silesia in the first half of the 18th century in the light of cadastral sources

Brendan Röder: Endangered Households. Reconfiguring spatial boundaries in the face of danger in early modern German towns

Ruth McManus: Elegant seats and picturesque retreats: the changing form and function of suburban villas in Dublin, 1750-1840

M6 Making inner urban boundaries

Supriya Chaudhuri: Blurred boundaries or intermediate zones? Urban co-spatiality and religious boundary-making in a South Asian city

Emily Chung: Beyond the 'Slums and Suburbs': Revisiting Urban Boundaries in Early Victorian Manchester

Hakan Forsell: Ritual Borders and Urban Modernization. The Existence and Transformation of the ritual Sabbath boundary (Eruv) in European Towns, 1860-1930

Antoni Furió – Juan Vicente García Marsilla: Three cities in one. Inner boundaries and ethnic and religious segregation in late medieval Valencia

Martin Klement – Jan Pezda: Tyrš House in Prague between the Sacred and the Profane

Eirini Koumparouli: Scenes of Otherness: The creation of threshold spatialities at the performing ritual rounds

Simone Wagner: Blurred boundaries. South-Western German Collegiate churches and urban space

Erik Schmitz: Hidden relatives. Burial bouderies and burial strategies in 18th-century Amsterdam

M11 Borders Infrastructures and Places in the Modern City

Giovanni Cristina: Dreaming of progress. Italian port cities facing the opening of the Suez Canal (1850s–1870s)

Hazem Ziada: Digital Infrastructure and the Layered Boundaries of the American Pastoral

Marina de Castro Teixeira Maia: Global places, local truths: Interpreting Infrastructure in the Metropolitan Region of Porto Alegre, Brazil

Claudia Eggart – Sandra Parvu: A Tale of Three Ports. The Architecture of Infrastructure at a Border Triangle

Toader Popescu: Urban fringes in the European periphery: railway infrastructure and industrial development in Bucharest at the turn of the century

Assaf Selzer: The divided city that became the capital city: Jerusalem 1949–1967

Elisa Zocca Carneiro: The neighborhood and the street: Pinheiros in the first half of the 20th century

M12 Migrant Cities and Urban courts in a Global World, 1600–1900

Linda Wikland: Newcomers, Truth, and Trust – Strangers Facing the Court in Stockholm During the mid-17th Century

Samantha Sint Nicolaas: City of fights to city of rights? Everyday violence in early modern Amsterdam 1620-1790

Ariadne Schmidt: Zeroing in on the criminal migrant: shifting patterns in the origins of migrant defendants in early modern Amsterdam, 1620-1790

Marion Pluskota: Who has the right to access the city? Policing female labour migration in Amsterdam, 1850-1900

Manon van der Heijden: Migrants, violence, and discrimination in early modern Holland

Leo Lucassen: Comments on Migrant Cities and Urban Courts

M13 Between Unity and Diversity: Writing the History of the Late-Modern City

Liselore Durousset: Berlin's Industrial and Commercial Areas between Combines, Brownfields and Business Parks (1980s–2000s). Socio-Spatial Transformation into a Late-Modern Post-Socialist Metropolis?

Matti O. Hannikainen: Writing a History of a New Town: The Case of Vantaa (est. 1974)

Erika Szívós: Inner-City Renaissance as an All-Out War? Post-1990 Budapest in a Regional Comparison

M14 Global dreams, local realities: Urban spatial transformations under the influence of globalization flows between 1400–2000

Laura Kolbe: Between military, political, and commercial use: the transformations in the Kamppi field in Helsinki 1920-2020

Aleksandra Djukic – Branislav Antonic – Jelena Maric: Transformation of Main Streets from 15th until 21st century: Medium-Sized Cities in Vojvodina, Serbia

Jelena Maric – Aleksandra Djukic – Jugoslav Joković – Branislav Antonic: Re-Evaluation of Urban Renewal Waterfront Development: The Comparison of user perception regarding the Riverfront in Belgrade, Serbia

Ranka Gajić – Darinka Golubović Matić: Case of the first urban plane of Belgrade – a lesson for all times

Keith Eggener: Grain-Belt Globalism: How a Prairie City Built an Ocean Port

Cathelijne Nuijsink: The 'Wisdom' of Seoul's New Towns up for Global Discussion: The Anywise Conference in Seoul, 1995

M15 Museums and the City. How did cities shape the modern museum and vice versa (ca. 1750–1950)

Ulrike Müller: Creative spaces as sites of identity politics: Musealisation and meaning making of artists' houses in early-twentieth-century Brussels and Antwerp

Kate Hill: Urban centres and urban peripheries: social geographies and branch museum creation in Britain, 1880-1939

Marie Palmers: City-sponsored history? The shaping of historical culture by the Brussels City Museum (1887–present)

Stefaan Grieten: Housing a collection, constructing a context. The Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp (1890)

Gerrit Verhoeven: Leopold's suburbia. Urban planning and the construction of the royal museums in the Brussels parc du Cinquantaire (1880–1940)

M18 Nature in cities: planning for difference & re/defining borders

Hanna, Erika: Rainfall and the City in Ireland, 1800–2000

Pelgrims, Claire: Cycling infrastructure and "nature": The role of urban nature in redefining the aesthetical experience of cycling in France and Switzerland since 1995

Matti O. Hannikainen: Finding Nature in a Modern City – The Case of Vanhankaupunginlahti in Helsinki, 1890–1990

Špačková, Eva: How to fill the gap? Socialist city in the post-socialistic time on example of Ostrava-Poruba

Eszik, Veronika: Lawsuit, Defamation and a Duel: A Conflicted History of How Clean Drinking Water Was Provided in Budapest

Bodovics, Éva: Unforgettable? The Memory of Nineteenth-Century Budapest (Hungary) Floods

Németh, Ágnes: The Role of the City in the Transformation of an Urban Stream in Budapest

Høghøj, Mikkel: The Rat and the City: Urban welfare, rats and everyday life in mid-20th century Copenhagen

M19 Troubled Cities: Dissolved, Sharpened, and Shifted Boundaries since the 20th century

Carmen Enns: War and Shifting Borders: Thematic Urban Cartography from 1914s to 1945

Elisa-Maria Hiemer: Mapping memories – Textual and visual stories on contested land in Central Europe

Tabitha Redepenning: Narrating Szczecin. Creation of urban authenticity through touristic city trails

Damian Zając: How did places for wealthy people become open to the masses? Spa towns in Lower Silesia after World War II: history, architecture, and urban planning

Olga Juutistenaho: Troubled spaces: Narrating and interpreting World War II through two war cemeteries in Helsinki

Laura Demeter – Petre Matei: Dirty Cities and Modern Times. Romanian Cities between Hygienization Phantasies, Social Exclusion, and Roma Genocide during the 1930s and 1940s

Uri Rosenberg – Chen Bram: "In the Caucasus, Muslims were like our brothers, but we were in our place, and they were in theirs": Remembering Jewish- Muslim relations in Acre

M20 Maritime cities at the boundaries: governance, intervention and agency at sea in Late Medieval Western Europe (13th–15th centuries)

Gonçalo Melo da Silva: Chaos or profit on the border? Algarve port towns and wars at Late Middle Ages: human and financial resources, provisioning and results

Davide Morra: Two Towns between the Kingdom of Naples and the Adriatic Sea. The Commercial Policy of Trani and Barletta in the Late Middle Ages

Laurin Herberich: A City out of Time — Venice and the Latency Problem

Filippo Vaccaro: Autonomous trading hub or Venetian offshoot? Investigating the significance of the port of Candia in the early 14th century

Jesús Ángel Solórzano Telechea - Pablo García Fuente: The construction of maritime boundaries : sea sovereignty and urban coastal jurisdiction in the Crown of Castile (13th-15th centuries)

Albert Reixach Sala: Fighting the plague in the maritime cities of the Western Crown of Aragon (c. 1348–c. 1510)

M21 Urban welfare regimes in the North, 1500–2024

Hannes Rolf: The Homes the City Built: Shelters as Welfare Provision in Stockholm 1840-1940

Richard Rodger: Surviving Death: Family Fortunes and Trust in the City

Andrés Brink Pinto: The pre-history of housing inspection in Malmö, Sweden, c. 1900-1910

Elise Perrault: Constructing workers´ „right to mobility“ in the early welfare city. Stockholm´s workers´trains (1903–1923)

Mats Hallenberg: Public transport and urban citizenship: The contested expansion of tramways in Nordic capital cities c. 1900

André Klaassen: Public transportation and the right to the welfare metropolis: negotiating modern welfare citizenship through greater Stockholm's transit network (1960s–1970s)

M22 Disruptions of Urban Infrastructure in the Second Half of the 20th Century

Timothy Moss: Urban infrastructures mediating the political division and reunification of Berlin

David Hernandez Falagan – José Luis Oyón: Infrastructures and working-class peripheries: Barcelona, 1950–2000

Vítězslav Sommer: The Production Network of the Svit Footwear Company during Late Socialism and the Economic Transformation after 1989

Martin Jemelka – Ondřej Ševeček: Deindustrialisation and Industrial Housing Transformation: The Case of Two Czechoslovak Industrial Centres, Ostrava and Zlín

M26 Imaginary vs. real: Towns on the Border and Borders in Towns

Martin Šandera: Borders of the old and new world in a medieval royal town. České Budějovice during the reign of George of Poděbrady

Dan Dumitru Iacob: Topography of a Border Town between Imaginary and Real: Focani, in Graphic and Cartographic Sources from the 18th-19th Centuries

Blanka Szeghyová: The Untouchables: Pillory, Gallows and the Executioner: Ambivalence, Dichotomy and Limitations of Early Modern Justice

Myriam Greilsammer: Reality vs Imaginary: the Crucial Role of the Lombard Moneylenders in the Economic Life of the Low Countries cities, and How their Perception as "Metaphorical Jews" Led to their Brutal Exclusion (13th C. – 1618)

Antonio Moro: Barcelona's Rambla: From Geofraphical Boundary to Urban Axis

Guillermo Medina: Mapping heterotopia: urban images of Glasgow in its historical cartography

M27 Sonic Boundaries. Sound, listening and the delineation of urban geographies and communities since 1500

Kasper H. Andersen: The King's Cacophonous Coronation – Auditory Manifestations of Power at the Coronation of Frederik II of Denmark in 1559

Jenna The: Breathing, barking, bellowing – A sound history of human-animal interactions in Amsterdam (1840-1910)

Jakob Ingemann Parby: Noise, Nerves, and Spatiality in the Making of the Modern European Metropolis, app. 1850–1920

Stijn Oosterlynck – Ilja Van Damme: Spatializing the 'Sound of Belgium': the (sub)urban geography of popular electronic dance music, app. 1987–1992

Simon Gunn: London and the Urban Geography of Pop in 1960s Britain

M30 Beyond the Boundary: Women in Urbanism

Martina Tanga: Nell'Ambiente: Italian Women Artists Reimagining 1970s Urban Space

Polina Prentou: Urban Studies and Gender in Greece: The case of NTUA (Athens, Greece) in the 1980s and 1990s

Maria Silvia D’Avolio – Elettra Carnelli: Reshaping Italian urban planning: women’s transversal impact as citizens and practitioners (196X–199X)

Maribel Rosselló – Marta Serra Permanyer: Deficits and urban growth of the Barcelona metropolitan area in the seventies

Garyfallia Katsavounidou: Women activists for the environment: "Save the trees" movement in Thessaloniki, Greece

M32 Cities and the Environment under Twentieth Century Authoritarian Regimes

Takahito Mori: Organising Leisure from the Perspective of Social Hygiene: Development of Kosei Undo (Japanese Recreation Campaign) in "Greater East Asia" in the 1930/40s.

Barry Jackisch: Various Shades of Green and Brown: Greenspace and Racial Ideology in Nazi Berlin, 1933-1945

Jiří Janáč: The Prague Ring 1970s–1990s. Continuities of technocratic environmentalism between authoritarian state socialism and liberal democracy in urban context

Stefan Kubin - Angelika Psenner: Siegfried Sitte's design for Zell am See - a search for traces

Piotr Kisiel: The Green Veil of Stalinism: Parks and Greeneries in Poland and East Germany (1949–56)

Tatiana Perga: From decentralization to centralization: early Soviet waste regime. Ukrainian context

Michaela Závodná – Viktor Pál: An Environmental History of Public Transport in Socialist Czechoslovakia and Hungary

Adelina Stefan: City Tours and International Tourism in Socialist Romania: Promoting Tourism Through Nature

M33 Reinventing the urban past, c. 1750–2000

Jakub Frejtag: Identity Reinvented: Empire, Society and the Transformations of Urban Space in the Russian-dependent Kingdom of Poland.

Sally Hartshorne: Selling a City of History and Progress

Aleksander Łupienko: Reinventing the City's Past: Habsburg Lviv and its Memory Cultures before 1918

Birgit Knauer: Rebuilding the City of Vienna after the Second World War: Symbols of the Past and the preservation of the "Viennese" Cityscape

Marina de Castro Teixeira Maia: Unveiling Authorized Heritage Discourses in urban development: a historical account of Fortaleza, Brazil

Arida Yasmin: Shaping a Historic Urban Centre through Images of the Past: The Use of the Railway Heritage in the Old Town of Jakarta

M34 Crossing boundaries through (digital) narratives

Fabrizio Nevola: Public Renaissance

Tom Becker: Co-creative heritagisation and digital representation to overcome formal socio-spatial boundaries in Luxembourg City (togehter with Catherine Jones)

Salvia Palate: "Heritage Emotion" or User-Generated Heritage? Introducing USHer as a Methodological Experiment on the Divided Island of Cyprus

Ivaylo Nachev: 3D Reconstruction of the Demolished Targovska Street in the Bulgarian Capital City of Sofia – Opportunities and Challenges

Xavier de la Selle: Four ways to tell the story of a city: the new narrative of Lyon city museum

Sofia Darbesio: Unveiling and overcoming cultural-spatial boundaries with digital narratives in multiple historical segments: Piazza Municipio in Naples

Daniel Baránek: Map Visualization of Crossing the Boundaries of Jewish Ghettos

M35 Informal Housing in 20th-century Europe: origins, transformations, divergences

Joan Roca: Barcelona: transforming the informal city into historical heritage

Friedrich Hauer: Tracing the informal fringe. How Vienna's 'wild' settlements were studied and reformed after 1945

Andreu Ribes – Kathrin Golda Pongratz: Community ties and nature bonds. A projective narration of XXth century's Barcelona informal housing

Kivanç Kilinç: Informal Formal Housing: The Role of Squatter Settlements in the Making of Izmir's Urbanscapes (1970s–1990s)

M36 Housing policies and urban transformations in Europe and beyond as a result of refugee flows in the first half of the 20th century

David Templin: Living in "rat holes" and "pigsties"? German refugees, urban arrival spaces, and the housing question in the metropolitan region of Hamburg after the First World War

Kalliopi Amygdalou: Architectures of displacement and the 1923 Population Exchange between Greece and Turkey

Alexandros Kalemis: Spatialities of immigration: The settlement of Minor-Asian refugees in the western areas of Athens

Sofia Mikropoulou: The settlement of exchangeable refugees as a factor of transformation and development of the eastern districts of Athens in the interwar period

Maria Dousi – Sofoklis Kotsopoulos – Michalis Nomikos – Athina Vitopoulou: From Asia Minor to Thessaloniki. The impact of the refugees settlement on the housing production and the urban morphology in the interwar period

Melina Katsimpiri – Kalliopi Tseroni: The refugge settlement of Patras. Resilience and peculiarities

Aikaterini Karadima: Chania's urban metamorphosis: Exploring the consequences of the 1923 Population Exchange

M38 Where the land meets the sea. Costal towns and cities as nodes of mediation in a global era

Stephanie Hanke: On the border between land and water: moles as polyfunctional spaces of Early Modern harbour cities

Michael Dudzik: Opening up to the world. Naval engineers and the reconstruction of the port of Bordeaux (1730–1755)

Esin Bölükbaş Dayi: "Water and Urban Morphology: Antalya's Multifaceted Relationship with the Sea and Beyond"

Kehao Chen: Sea, Sand Fence and Salt Squatter: The Historical Evolution of Coastal Urban-Rural Morphological Differentiation in Sha Tau Kok Area under Border Conditions

Brigitte Le Normand: Whose city, whose sea? Multiscalar negotiations in the development of Rijeka, socialist Yugoslavia's port city

Vassilis Kitsos: From Baltic Ports to Baltic Urban Waterfronts

Sascha Roesler: "The Psychology of Water" Epistemologies of Prediction and Speculation in View of Rising Seas

M39 Coffee, Cafés, urban commerce and Sociable Substance Use

Wouter Ryckbosh: Drinking in the public sphere: patterns of sociability in the urban coffee- and alehouse in 18th–19th century Belgium

Michael John: The Viennese Café: History, Myth, Reality

Janhein Furnee: From tea gardens to liquor dens. Public drinking culture in and around Amsterdam, 1800–1850

Pirjo Ovaskainen: When illegal comes legal – how three Finnish city council reacted when prohibition ends in 1932

Daniela Stanciu-Păscărina: The Coffe-house in Transylvania as a space of sociability during Belle Époque

Preston Perluss: Parisian 18th Cafés

Ines Sabotič: Les femmes et les cafés: patronnes et serveuses dans les cafés zagrebois vers 1900

M40 Urban social movements and the reinvention of cities since the 1970s

Hannes Rolf: Rent Strikes. A Global History

Maribel Rossello – Marta Serra Permanyer: From neighbourhood movements to the transformation of the city: The Popular Plan of Santa Coloma de Gramenet (1970-1979)

Collin Bernard: Italian Communists and the Central Business District: Milan, Social Movements, and Experiences of Local Government, 1971-1980

Helena Hill: Punk Music and Cinnamon Buns. From Everyday Resistance to Contentious Politics in 1980s Autonomous Centers

José Luis Oyón – Enrique Tudela: Urban social movements, neighbourhood improvement policies and the reproduction of inequality in Barcelona's periphery

Fredrik Egefur: "Subversive squatters, welfare state-anarchists or just a slightly radical cultural association? – 'The Winter Palace' in Malmö Sweden"

Bart Tritsmans: The city through emerald glasses: conflicting discourses on liveability in 1970s Antwerp

Pal Brunnström – Devin Baaring: Claiming space by making a fuss – Malmö's LGBTQ-movement 1971-1981

Eline Inghelbrecht – Koenraad Danneels: Mediating socio-ecological struggles: citizen organizations and their journals as arenas for spatial and environmental discussions

Jovana Janinovic: Multiple temporalities of heritage activism: Post-socialist city between performance and performativity

Johan Pries – Erik Jönsson: From grassroots commons in crisis to urban, public places? The Swedish People's parks in the long downturn of organized labor

M41 Challenges of Urban Recovery: Ukrainian Cities

Oksana Barsynova: The Role of Museums in Urban Recovery

Oleksandr Okhrimenko: Emotional heritage of Ukrainian cities and towns

Natalia Otrishchenko: Professional Autonomy during and after the War: Assembling Expertise for Recovery

Hryhoriy Seleshchuk: Restoring the urban environment in the context of humanitarian crises

Tetiana Vodotyka: Reconstructing Ukraine: The Role of Academic Community

Myroslava Savisko: Agency of local self-governments: potential challenges for recovery

M42 Urban HGIS and beyond. Exploring the possibilities and limitations of Historical Geographic Information Systems (HGIS) for research in urban history

Janna Aerts – Leon van Wissen: Letting Lives Live On: Integrating Life Narratives into a Bigger Web of Linked Urban GIS Data

Kalliopi Amygdalou – Valia Gialia – Athanasia Antonatou: Mapping the 1923 Population Exchange between Greece and Turkey: Data generation, data analysis and the contribution of HGIS in challenging national historiographies

Anna-Lena Schumacher: Extension of historical GIS-research through geosemantic contextualisation. Combining GIS and Semantic Web technologies in comparative urban history

Ahmet Erdem Tozoglu: Spatial Analysis of Anatolian Travelogues: Unveiling Insights Through Digital Tools

M43 Pre-Modern Cities: Inequality and the Urban Economy

Wouter Ryckbosch: All at work? Tracing patterns of irregular labour in pre-industrial Belgium (1700-1800)

Lennert Lapeere: Living in the suburbia of medieval Ypres. The urban fabric of the disappeared outer parishes of an industrial centre during the 13th and 14th centuries

Arie van Steensel: Inequality, Mobility and Housing in Leiden, c. 1550–1599

Patryk Kuc: Between agriculture and trade. Small towns of Lesser Poland in the 16th century

Rachael Harkes: Debt practices and inequality in the Welsh Marches

Jakub Wysmułek: Boundaries of Ethno-Religious Districts in Early Modern Lviv. The Study of Their Rigidity and Permeability

Leen Bervoets: The Social Life of Early Netherlandish Painting (1400–1550)

Laurentiu Radvan: Border towns and people on the social border: the Roma in Moldavian towns

Specialists Sessions

S1 „Invisible Boundaries": Urbanism and Identity in Central European Towns and Cities on „Unofficial" Internal Borders 1918–1989

Ondřej Kolář: Living alongside the army: Memory policy of towns neighbouring to military bases Hradiště and Libavá

Lubomír Hlavienka: Inter-ethnic violence alongside the language line in East Sudetenland (may and june 1945)

Dariusz Dekiert: One House – Two Worlds. The Portrayal of 'Own' and 'Other' Neighbors in the Memoir Literature of Łódź Jews

S2 Pandemics, Society and Ecology in historical urban space

Grażyna Liczbińska: Gender differences in mortality caused by 1866 cholera epidemic in the city of Poznań

Ján Golian – Grażyna Liczbińska: Urban-Rural Differences in Marriage Patterns in the Face of Cholera Epidemic. The study of the Detva population (The Upper Hungary Kingdom), 1831-1920

Leo Oorschot: Growth, urban densification and epidemics in The Hague, the observations of physician Schick, 1852

Andrea Pokludová: Transformation of the public health in Moravská Ostrava at the turn of 19th and 20th century

Patryk Pankowski: Mortality from Infectious Diseases in the 19th Century in Poznań and its Socioeconomic Reasons

Linda Koníková: Growth in Urban Space: Effects of War-Related Stress on Body Proportions in Women Born Before, During, and After World War II

Michaela Růžičková: Development of mortality in the parish of Zábrdovice in the years 1784-1867

S3 Urban planning and visions of modernity at boundaries of the Late Russian Empire

Peter J. Martyn: The large-scale urban development of Warsaw inside the Russian empire: unavoidable & paradoxical aspect

Medine Rasimgil – Gül Cephanecigil: Urban Modernization and Suburban Urban Development in Tiflis

Makary Górzyński: Town planning in the polish Kingdom in the 1900s: Mapping Crisis of Imperial Periphery

Kamil Śmiechowski: Towards a transnational history of Eastern European urban modernity

S7 Dynamics of Gender Relations in Pre-modern Urban Economy – Central Europe in a Comparative Perspective

Michaela Antonín Malaníková – Kateřina Lančová The changing patterns of (wo)men's work in medieval cities through the eyes of historiography

Anna Molnar: Female Participation in Urban Finances – Pattern and Social Background

Matěj Kaftan: Gender and guilds in Jagellonian period in Czcech lands

Marija Mogorović Crljenko: Women's occupations in pre-modern Istria

S8 Uncomfortable architectural heritage. Destruction or preservation of memory?

Jérôme Lanche – Wei-Hsiu Chang: Submit and Destroy: The Ankang Interrogation and Detention Center at Taiwan (1974-1987)

Christophe Davis: Belfast's Industrial Memory in Transition: From Problematic Industrial Heritage to Urban Renewal Symbol

Anastasiia Bozhenko: (Un)peaceful atom: nuclear heritage in the Ukrainian urban space

Frank Rochow: (Not) embracing difficult Habsburg heritage. Fortifications as part of heritage discourses in Cracow and Lviv

Nikos Pasamitros – Veroniki Krikoni: Contested Architectural Heritage: Divisions and Attachments of the Walled City of Nicosia

Petra Hudek: Soviet War Memorials and the War in Ukraine

S10 Urban Experience, Military Institutions, and War in Central Europe

Petra Svoljsak: Gorizia – City at War

Jiří Hutečka – Michael Viktořík: War and Changing the Geography of Urban Space: Olmütz/Olomouc 1914-1918

Frank Rochow: Ready to fight? Fortifying Galician towns and cities during the Crimean War

Anda-Lucia Spânu: Sibiu as border town of the Habsburg / Austro-Hungarian Empire

S13 Nationalizing Cities? Industrial Cities in Multi-Ethnic Central and Eastern European Regions and Their Impact on the Emergence of National Conflicts

Andrea Pokludová: Moravian Compromise 1905. One of the ways of solving ethnic conflicts in multi-ethnic towns in Moravia

Kajetan Stobiecki: Industrialization, security, and national conflict in Plzeň/Pilsen 1860–1914

Aaron Bluem: Fostering Identities in a Multilingual Petroleum Boom Town through Securitization: Strategies and Local Policies in Drohobycz before 1918

Lukas Pohl: At the centre of urban conflicts – (in)security of the Jewish population in the growing textile metropolis of Łódź (1961–1914)

S14 Edges at the center. The reinvention of cities at their boundaries

Julie Gravier: Out of cities' boundaries but closer to the center: understanding the differenciation of suburbs through spatial accessibility studies.

Putrikinasih R. Santoso: Moving Away from Jakarta: Urban Expansion, Infrastructure, and the Land Consumption in Jakarta, 1600s–1950s

Daniel Löschenbrand – Susanne Tobisch – Friedrich Hauer: Old and New Centres in Vienna's 'Transdanubia'. The role of historical linear settlements as urban pols

Michał Słomski – Katarzyna Wagner – Krzysztof Zwierz: Between City Centre and Periphery. New local centres at the city boundaries of 17th–18th c. Warsaw

S15 Architecture, Villages, and their Entangled Histories: Rural-urban Encounters in the Islamic World

Michelle Craig: Formalizing the Informal: The Nawawil Neighborhood in Fez, Morocco

Ben Clark: Ruralisme in Late Colonial and Post-Independence Morocco: Village Design in the Gharb Valley (1950'–1980')

Vincent Thérouin: Urbanizing villages? Beyond the "town founding" pattern in Early Ottoman Bosnia

Daniel E. Coslett: Christianity and French Colonialism in Occupied Enfidaville (Tunisia) and Beyond

S17 'Liveable cities'. Ranking towns through history

Jaroslav Ira: Irrespective of Size: Claiming Urbanity in the Discourses of Small Towns in Czechoslovakia and Germany, 1900-1950

Réka Horeczki: The importance of economic history in the image of a settlement. Based Hungarian spa and agriturismo town case study

Vincent Baptist: Defining, Measuring and Identifying Paradoxes of Liveability through Modern Urban Indices

S19 Industrial Heritage

Marinela Istrate: Adaptive reuse of industrial heritage, a major step towards urban regeneration. Evidence for Iasi city, Romania

Miloš Matěj: Research on industrial heritage carried out by the Methodological Centre of the National Heritage Institute

Magdalena Mrázková: Creating and practical use of electronic maps at survey of industrial heritage

Hynek Zbranek – Michaela Ryšková: Brno as an industrial centre – significant sites, research, conservation assessment, archaeological traces of industrialisation

Michal Zezula – Dalibor Prix – Josef Večeřa: The relationship between mining activities and early urbanization of the Moravian-Silesian borderland on the example of the foundation of the town of Bruntál

S22 Tange transnational – Japanese futures for European cities

Jasna Mariotti: Metabolist urban utopias and the unfinished project for Catania: views from Librino

Ines Tolic: Cities of the Future Past. Kenzo Tange's Urban Designs for Skopje and Bologna

Florian Purkarthofer: The Limits of Control: Approaching Tange Kenzo Through Vienna and Vice Versa

S24 City across the borders – borders across the city

Aleksander Łupienko: The City as an Aggregate of Communities? The case of Lviv before 1918

Susanne Tobisch – Daniel Löschenbrand: Settling on the Left Side of the Danube: A Historical Spatial Analysis of the Transformation of the Settlement Structures in Vienna's Transdanubia

Wojciech Święs: A city of many borders. Cieszyn's developments and declines 1848–1939

S25 Building Codes, Morphology, And The Appearance Of Cities

Eulàlia Gómez-Escoda: Disruptions in the morphological configuration of the regular city: the permanence of historical traces in the plot structure of six blocks of the Barcelona's Eixample grid.

Roksolyana Holovata: Greening of the city – the "beautification" policy in the late 19th century Lviv

Cate Meredith: Belfast Building Codes: A Hidden Aspect of the Troubles

Harald Stühlinger, Josef Holecek: Prague and Vienna – Comparison of Incomparable

S26 Visual Representations as a Path to Participatory Urban History?

Vincent Baptist: Sharing Authority and Bridging Objective-Subjective Data Collections in Mapping Rotterdam's Katendrecht

Justin Colson: Visualising Layers of London: Participatory Online Mapping across Communities?

Anda Lucia Spânu: Visual Representations of Towns (of nowadays Romania) as Historiography

S29 Border cities in the Öresund-region

Hanne Sanders: The History of the Öresund Region

Henning Bro: Post-war visions of an Öresund metropolis

Jørgen Mikkelsen: Elsinore – frontier town, transit town and one of Denmark's most distinct network towns

Per-Markku Ristilammi: The Bridge, The Nation State and Shape Shifting Modernity

S30 (De)constructing Cold War Urban Space Along the Border: the case of Yugoslavia, Italy, and beyond

Jure Ramšak: The Hard and Soft Tissues of Socialism in the Urban Spaces along the Yugoslav-Italian Border during the Cold War

Raimondo Mercadante: The Architecture of the Karst Group in the framework of the economic development perspectives made possible by the Osimo Treaty (1976-1989)

Federico Tenca Montini: Cold architectural war in Urban Spaces along the Yugoslav-Italian Border during the Cold War

Round Tables

RT1 What Futures Await European Mass Housing Estates? Reflections on Privatization, Patrimonialization, and Redevelopment in East and West

RT5 Frontiers of interdisciplinarity. Understanding institutional constraints and possibilities in the interdisciplinary field of urban studies

RT6 Black or green city? Searching for identities and transcending the limits of post-industrial settlements in the 21st century

RT7 The Cambridge Urban History of Europe 1

RT8 The Cambridge Urban History of Europe 2

RT9 Urban History and the Anthropocene


Updated: 10. 09. 2024