Eszter Gantner (1971-2019) was a research fellow at the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe from 2013 through 2019.

Heidi Hein-Kircher is head of the department "academic forum" at the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe in Marburg, Germany.

Oliver Hochadel is a historian of science and a tenured researcher at the Institución Milá y Fontanals de Investigación en Humanidades (CSIC, Barcelona).

Introduction: Searching for Best Practices in Interurban Networks Part I: Building a Modern City: Networks in Urban Planning 1. The Ghetto and the Castle: Modern Urban Design and Knowledge Transfer in Historic Prague Before and After 1918 2. In Search of Best Practices Within the Confines of the Russian Empire: The Port City of Berdyansk 3. Travelling Architecture: Géza Maróti's Art Between the Regional and the Global 4. The Exchange of Urban Planning Theory and Practice Along the Austro-Hungarian Periphery: Zagreb as a Case Study Part II: Aiming at the Healthy City: Experiments with Best Practices 5. Learning from Smaller Towns: Moscow in the International Urban Networks, 1870-1910 6. Best Practices from a Polish Perspective: Improving Health Conditions in Lviv Around 1900 7. Improving Health in a Mediterranean City: Barcelona and the European Network (1931-1937) Part III: The New Urban Space: Experiences and Institutions 8. A Discourse of Modernity?: Warsaw's Press on Urban Poverty (1880s-1910s) 9. Going East: Gustave Loisel and the Networks of Exchange Between Zoological Gardens Before 1914 10. Architectural Conversations Across Europe's Borderlands: Transnational Exchanges Between Barcelona and Bucharest in the 1920s 11. In the Driver's Seat of Modern Urbanization: A Case Study of Automotive Development in the Emerging City of Barcelona, c.1900-1950 12. Crossing the Iron Curtain: Milan's Museum of Technology and Transnational Exchanges Before and After World War II. Afterword: Goodbye to Center and Periphery