Published as part of the series Routledge Advances in Urban History Cities, Railways, Modernities chronicles the transformation that London and Paris experienced during the 19^th century through the lens of the London Underground and the Paris Métro.

By highlighting the multiple ways in which the future of the two cities was imagined and the role that railways played in that process, the book challenges and refines two of the most dominant myths of urban modernity: a planned Paris and an unplanned London. In it, Dr López Galviz recovers a significant body of work around the ideas, the plans, the context, and the building of metropolitan railways in the two cities to provide new insights into the relationship of transport technologies and urban change during the 19^th century. The book invites us to think about alternative ways of connecting the urban past to our urban futures.

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