This article reflects on modernism from 1900 to 1940 on globalist terms. The turn of the twentieth century was a period of rapid urbanization, pronounced intellectual foment, labor politics, and severe colonial relations. Its upheavals formed the context for modernist approaches to city building. It was also a period of unprecedented interconnectedness where modernisms coalesced under a series of transnational movements. The Werkbund, Bauhaus, and Congrés Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne (CIAM) gained international recognition, influencing the creation of whole cities. Global cities studies, the research program most responsible for conceptualizing urban networks, have oddly little to say about the modernist period that prefigured the global city. This article breaks this arbitrary barrier in global cities studies, which equate global cities with the advent of digital linkages. By doing so, it recognizes the international city as its immediate precursor, fostering remarkable political, economic, and social changes under the heading of modernism. The twenty-first century neoliberal city archetype looks politically limited by comparison, its ossified institutions in need of reinvigoration.

本文从全球主义的角度反思了 1900 年至 1940 年的现代主义。二十世纪之交是一个快速城市化、明显的知识分子煽动、劳工政治和严重的殖民关系的时期。它的剧变形成了现代主义城市建设方法的背景。这也是一个前所未有的相互联系的时期，现代主义在一系列跨国运动下融合在一起。Werkbund、Bauhaus 和 Congrés Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM) 获得了国际认可，影响了整个城市的创建。全球城市研究是最负责将城市网络概念化的研究项目，但奇怪的是，对于预示全球城市的现代主义时期几乎没有什么可说的. 本文打破了全球城市研究中的这一任意障碍，将全球城市等同于数字联系的出现。通过这样做，它将国际城市视为其直接先驱，在现代主义的领导下促进了显着的政治、经济和社会变革。相比之下，二十一世纪的新自由主义城市原型在政治上似乎受到限制，其僵化的机构需要重振。