A special feature by the Europe Now Journal on Contemporary Urban Research in the European City.
“But what a city! (…) With electric surface tramways installed. With the most modern system, with a model underground railroad, with gay little kiosks of stations leading down to it, built in native majolica, its tunnel lined with white tiling, its cars clean and well ventilated; with a superb opera-house, comfortable theaters, well-appointed shops full of pretty things, churches, monuments, superbly appointed clubs, luxuriant public parks; with museums full of rare collections in art and science,” wrote the American traveler and author F. Berkeley Smith about Budapest, the newly emerged second capital of the Austro-Hungarian empire in 1903. His photographic description, however, let the reader feel, that this cityscape could have been in any other contemporary European metropolis at the turn of the 19/20th century.
You can read the full article on https://www.europenowjournal.org/2018/04/30/contemporary-urban-research-in-the-european-city/