European cities: Modernity, race and colonialism is a collection of empirical and theoretical scholarly analyses of multiple urban processes across the East-West European divide, inviting the reader to reimagine urban Europe from non-Eurocentric perspectives, and to engage active thought and thoughtful action.

• Front matter
• Dedication
• Contents
• Figures
• Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: rethinking the European urban
• Part I: Provincialising historicism
  • Parochial imaginations: the ‘European city’ as a territorialised entity
  • Countermapping colonial amnesia in Parisian landscapes
  • Provincialising industry: hyperreal urban modernity in nineteenth-century Buenos Aires
• Part II: Provincialising (urban) geography
  • Provincialising conviviality: convivial boundary-making in post-Ottoman, socialist and divided Mitrovica
  • Urban infrastructures, migration and the reproduction of colonial forms of difference
  • Decolonising Cottbus: unmasking coloniality/modernity and ‘imperial difference’ in post (real)socialist urban sites of remembrance
• Part III: Provincialising the (urban) political
  • Decolonial migrant claims to the metropole: views from two Mediterranean cities
  • Portuguese Urban Studies: between race and the absence of racism
  • Between hope and despair: how racism and anti-racism produce Madrid
  • Theorising Hamburg from the South: racialisation and the development of Wilhelmsburg
• Coda: toward urban provisioning
• Index