Weltstädte, Metropolen, Megastädte: Dynamiken von Stadt und Raum von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart [World Cities, Metropolises, and Mega-Cities: On the Dynamics of Urban Space from Antiquity to the Present]

For the first time in German-language historical research, this volume, based on the papers presented at the eponymous international conference at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, from November 27-29, 2015, achieves two main things: first, we provide a first suggestion how to conceive of world cities, metropolises, and mega cities in a diachronous fashion and investigate a selection of places from classical Antiquity to the early 21st century; and, second, while most of the essays focus on European experiences, our pioneering approach also purportedly proposes an analytical framework (esp. Clemens Zimmermann's programmatic introduction on 11-28) that can be applied in a synchronous way as well. The essays, focusing on, among others, Rome and Alexandria, Byzantium and Istanbul, London, Hamburg, Vienna, Paris, Berlin, and Moscow, also include case studies on Potosí and Los Angeles, are in German, but we included English-language abstracts a well.