ABSTRACT
The interwar was a period of momentous urban transformations at a global scale. Ideologies, technologies, and visionary ideas fueled comprehensive interventions in cities across the world. Taking the city as a physical, social, and imaginary space, this chapter offers a history of the interwar urban at the intersection of global connectivities and local specificities. It explores the material dynamics of cities within their political, economic, and social contexts; representations of the urban in different visual and written media; asymmetrical power relations at both global and local levels; and struggles over accessing and controlling urban spaces. In this framework, the chapter elaborates on diverse issues such as urban planning, housing, real estate market, infrastructure, urban activism, struggles over municipal services, and the role of global human mobility in disseminating urban forms and cultures.
