Becoming metropolitan : urban selfhood and the making of modern Cracow Introduction: unlikely metropolis Cracow around 1900 : people place and prospects The interurban matrix : local news and international sensations in Cracows popular press Well make ourselves into Europe : the Greater Cracow survey series 1903 1904 Municipal national and European aspirations : the creation of Wielki Kraków 1904 1915 Planes trams and automobiles : the dangers and allure of modern technology Big city muck : images of the great city in the gutter press Becoming metropolitan Epilogue