Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Prologue -- Part 1 Introduction: The Context -- 2 Utopian Urbanism: Ideals, Practices and Prospects -- 3 News from Nowhere: A Utopian Dream -- 4 The Word on the Street: Charles Baudelaire, Jacques Offenbach and the Paris of their Time -- Part 2 Manifestoes: Urban Visions -- 5 The Idea of Modernity in Cerdà's Teoría General de la Urbanización -- 6 Exporting the German Model: Managing Urban Growth at the Turn of the 1900s -- 7 Camillo Sitte: City Planning According to Artistic Principles, Vienna 1889 -- 8 Mr Howard and the Garden City: A Plain Man's Guide to the Future -- 9 Patrick Geddes and Cities in Evolution: The Writing and the Readings of an Intempestive Classic -- Part 3 Transformations: Urban Praxis -- 10 Making London's Modernity: Capital, Memory and Nature -- 11 Paris Space: What Might Have Constituted Haussmanization -- 12 The Eixample (Ensanche) of Barcelona (1859 and After): Theoretical and Practical Paradigm -- 13 The Significance and Impact of Vienna's Ringstrasse -- 14 Berlin 1900 -- 15 Urban Planning as Representation: An Examination of Harald Hals's General Plan for Oslo 1929 -- 16 Epilogue -- Index.