1. Preface

   • Michiel Wagenaar
   • Virginie Mamadouh
   • Gertjan Dijkink

   Preface Pages: 1 - 2

2. Townscapes of power

   • Michiel Wagenaar

   OriginalPaper Pages: 3 - 13

3. Exhibiting the New Mussolinian City: Memories of empire in the World Exhibition of Rome (EUR)

   • Anna Notaro

   OriginalPaper Pages: 15 - 22

4. Capital and Empire: Geographies of Imperial London

   • David Gilbert
   • Felix Driver

   OriginalPaper Pages: 23 - 32

5. Moscow and St. Petersburg, a sequence of capitals, a tale of two cities

   • Olga Gritsai
   • Herman van der Wusten

   OriginalPaper Pages: 33 - 45

6. The Hague as the disputed showcase of the Dutch State and Dutch national identity 1814–1917

   • Esther M. Agricola

   OriginalPaper Pages: 47 - 56

7. Barcelona's planning strategies: from 'Paris of the South' to the 'Capital of West Mediterranean'

   • Francisco Javier Monclús

   OriginalPaper Pages: 57 - 63

8. European capital cities as political frontiers

   • Gertjan Dijkink

   OriginalPaper Pages: 65 - 71

9. The European system of capital cities

   • Paul Claval

   OriginalPaper Pages: 73 - 81

10. Choosing a site for the capital of Europe

    • Carola Hein

    OriginalPaper Pages: 83 - 97

11. Brussels: Five capitals in search of a place. The citizens, the planners and the functions

    • Evert Lagrou

    OriginalPaper Pages: 99 - 112

12. A virtual capital for the European Union?

    • Virginie Mamadouh

    OriginalPaper Pages: 113 - 128

13. The cityscapes of European capital cities

    • Herman van der Wusten

    OriginalPaper Pages: 129 - 133