Elias Canetti, Die gerettete Zunge: Geschichte einer Jugend (Frankfurt , 2005), 11.
2.
Just consider the career described by Christiane Crasemann Collins, Werner Hegemann and the Search for Universal Urbanism (New York, 2005).
3.
See Pim Kooij, "Groningen: Central Place and Peripheral City," in Pim Kooij and Piet Pellenberg, eds., Regional Capitals: Past, Present, Prospects (Assen, Netherlands, 1994), 43.
4.
Jean-Luc Pinol and François Walther, "La ville contemporaine jusqu’à la seconde guerre mondiale ," in Jean-Luc Pinol, ed., Histoire de l’Europe urbaine (Paris, 2003), vol. 2, 9-275.
5.
Martin Daunton, "Introduction," in Martin Daunton, ed., Cambridge Urban History of Britain (Cambridge , 2000), vol. 3, 6.
6.
Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community ( New York, 2000); Philipp Ther, In der Mitte der Gesellschaft. Operntheater in Zentraleuropa 1815-1914 ( Vienna, 2006).
7.
See Judith Walkowitz, City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London (Chicago, 1992).
8.
See Paul M. Hohenberg and Lynn Hollen Lees, The Making of Urban Europe, 1000-1994 (Cambridge, MA, 1995).