Dorothee Brantz is director of the Center for Metropolitan Studies (CMS) and head of the international graduate research programme 'The World in the City: Metropolitanism and Globalization from the 19th Century to the Present'. Sasha Disko is an urban historian who is affiliated with the Center for Metropolitan Studies (CMS). Georg WagnerKyora is an urban historian who is affiliated with the Center for Metropolitan Studies (CMS).