Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, MD: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xiv, [2], 430. [2] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Tables. Figures. Index. Minor edge soiling. A few corners creased. The dust jacket has slight wear and soiling. The index has entries for Architectural Space, Architecture, City Center, Collective Identity, Communal, Heritage and Tradition, Historical Topographies, Housing Policy, Pierre L'Enfant. Marian Column, Modernism, Monuments, Tourism, Urban Development, and Working Class. Czaplicka has taught in Hamburg, Germany, at Harvard, and Humboldt University in Berlin. His publications have dealt with the pictorial imagery of Berlin, Americanism in Germany, Austrian exile artists, and commemorative practices and urban history in East-Central Europe. Recently he edited a collection on rewriting urban history and European immigration. Together with Felix Lutz, he is engaged in a study of German-American cultural-political relations that concentrates on the period 1900–1933. Blair Aldridge Ruble (born December 18, 1949) is a non-fiction writer and academic administrator whose work has focused on comparative urban studies as well as Russian and Ukrainian affairs. Ruble was affiliated with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars for several decades, beginning in the late 1970s. He served in various capacities at the Wilson Center between 1977 and 2017, including a long-standing association with the Kennan Institute from 1989 to 2012. Following this, he was named a Distinguished Fellow, a title he held until the Wilson Center ceased operations in April 2025. More