FiguresContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: rethinking the European urbanPart I: Provincialising historicism1: Parochial imaginations: the ‘European city’ as a territorialised entity2: Countermapping colonial amnesia in Parisian landscapes3: Provincialising industry: hyperreal urban modernity in nineteenth-century Buenos AiresPart II: Provincialising (urban) geography4: Provincialising conviviality: convivial boundary-making in post-Ottoman, socialist and divided Mitrovica5: Urban infrastructures, migration and the reproduction of colonial forms of difference6: Decolonising Cottbus: unmasking coloniality/modernity and ‘imperial difference’ in post (real)socialist urban sites of remembrancePart III: Provincialising the (urban) political7: Decolonial migrant claims to the metropole: views from two Mediterranean cities8: Portuguese Urban Studies: between race and the absence of racism9: Between hope and despair: how racism and anti-racism produce Madrid10: Theorising Hamburg from the South: racialisation and the development of WilhelmsburgCoda: toward urban provisioningIndex