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In this paper we argue that the contemporary revival of European municipalism should be examined within the rich context of the 'long' 20th century and the many and varied links forged between municipalities across national borders. In the first two sections we trace the emergence of the networked European municipality from the ad hoc individual connections made during the final decades of the 19th century, through the golden age of municipal internationalism during the interwar years, to the intensive cross-national cooperation pursued in the aftermath of the Second World War. We argue that the historical experience of these municipal connections was an essential prerequisite of the long-term move towards the multilevel networking experienced by European municipalities today. In the final section we focus on Eurocities, the main European municipal lobby group since the late 1980s, to show how municipalities have continued to utilise networking as their main tool within a supranational Europe, in effect to reinvent themselves within a globalised postindustrial economy.

Introduction : Global city, take 2 : a view from urban history / Pierre-Yves Saunier -- In the precincts of the global city : the transnational network of municipal affairs in Mebourne, Australia, at the end of the nineteenth century / Andrew Brown-May -- Mediterranean connections : the circulation of municipal knowledge and practices during the Ottoman reforms, c. 1830-1910 / Nora Lafi -- Pacific crossings? Urban progressivism in modern Japan / Jeffrey Hanes -- A city in the world of cities : Lyon, France : municipal associations as political resources in the twentieth century / Renaud Payre and Pierre-Yves Saunier -- Selling the city-state : planning and housing in Singapore, 1945-1990 / Nancy H. Kwak -- Transnational municipalism in a Europe of second cities : rebuilding Birmingham with municipal networks / Shane Ewen -- Mayor Edward I. Koch and New York's municipal foreign policy, 1977-1990 / Jonathan Soffer -- The municipal making of transnational networks : a case study of Montreal's twinning with Shanghai / Yon Hsu -- Latin American municipalities in transnational networks : reforming municipal government in Rosario, Argentina and Montevideo, Uruguay in the 1990s / Silvia Robin and Sébastian Velut -- Lost in translation? Mapping, moulding, and managing the transnational municipal moment / Shane Ewen -- Cities, competition, and cooperation : prospect meets retrospect / Marjatta Hietala