The Once and Future BudapestTracing the complex process by which Budapest became a Hungarian city, Robert Nemes offers an open ended picture of nation building and urban development. In 1800, the towns of Buda, Pest, and budawhich would later unite to form Budapestwere dusty, provincial, and largely German speaking. By century's end, Budapest had become a burgeoning metropolis, a capital, and a manifestly Hungarian city. Few nineteenth century cities grew as rapidly, and in none