Introduction: Space, narration, and the everyday / Wladimir Fischer-Nebmaier -- Part I. Narratives and images of the city -- The case of ossification : contemporary narratives about everyday life in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Lviv / Andriy Zayarnyuk -- The Masa's odysseys through bourgeois Caracas : the testimony of novels, 1920s-1970s / Arturo Almandoz -- Re-imagining Nieuwland : narrative mapping and the mental geography of urban space in a Dutch multi-ethnic neighborhood / Leeke Reinders -- Part II. Claiming urban space -- City and cinema as spaces for (trans-national) grassroots mobilization : perspectives from Southeastern and Central Europe / Anna Schober -- Adjudicating lodging : denazification, housing requisition, and identity in "Red Vienna," 1945-1948 / Matthew P. Berg -- Part III. Living and working in the city -- Urban information flows : workers' and employers' knowledge of the asbestos hazard in Clydeside, ca. 1950-1970s / Ronnie Johnston and Arthur McIvor -- Creating a familiar space : childcare, kinship, and community in post-socialist New Zagreb / Tihana Rubic and Carolin Leutloff-Grandits.