Urban History

Papers
(The TQCC of Urban History is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Revisiting the playground: Charles Wicksteed, play equipment and public spaces for children in early twentieth-century Britain10
Bibliography of urban history 20227
Michael Reeve, Bombardment, Public Safety and Resilience in English Coastal Communities during the First World War. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. viii + 390pp. 16 figures. 10 tables. Bi5
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Stuart Jenks and Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz (eds.), Message in a Bottle. Merchants’ Letters, Merchants’ Marks and Conflict Management in 1533–34. A Source Edition. Turnhout: Brepols, 2022. 257pp. €86.00 h3
Moving ‘out’ to be ‘in’: the suburbanization of London Jewry, 1900–19393
Carl Abbott, Suburbs. A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. 140pp. 10 b/w images. Ppk £8.99.2
Teresa Phipps, Medieval Women and Urban Justice: Commerce, Crime and Community in England, 1300–1500. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020. v + 222pp. 2 figures. 16 tables. Bibliography. £85.2
1500–18002
The Ford Foundation and the Community Facilities Program in Chile: a proposal between local needs and foreign technical assistance (1964–1969)1
How deep is your love? Patriotism, money and the people in Canton in the early phase of the Sino-Japanese War, 1937–19381
Luke Giraudet, Public Opinion and Political Contest in Late Medieval Paris: The Parisian Bourgeois and His Community, 1400–1450. Turnhout: Brepols, 2022. 328pp. 8 b/w images. €104.00 hbk.1
Sylvia E. Thornbush and Mary J. Thornbush, Changing Landscapes in Urban British Churchyards. Singapore: Bentham Books, 2020. ii + 286pp. 6 maps. 11 figures. 28 tables. Bibliography. $58.00 print. $29.1
Catchwater colonialism: reshaping Hong Kong’s hydrology, infrastructure, metabolism and landscape, 1937–19681
Stephen H. Rigby and Robert C. Nash, The Overseas Trade of Boston, 1279–1548. Köln: Böhlau Verlag, 2023, 135pp. 9 figures. 14 tables. Bibliography. €32.00 pbk.1
1500–18001
Respectability and race between the suburb and the city: an argument about the making of ‘inner-city’ London1
List of books reviewed1
Stones and slaves: labour, race and spatial exclusion in colonial Santo Domingo1
Ambiguities of urban détente: East German town twinning and the struggle with globalization in the 1960s1
‘Monarchical modern’: the making of Mysore city, 1880–19401
Maarten Prak and Patrick Wallis (eds.), Apprenticeship in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xii + 322pp. 22 figures. 30 tables. £75.00 hbk.1
Resilient forces of public amusement: the negotiation of ‘urban modernity’ in a peripheral port city (1880s–1930s)1
Dietrich W. Poeck (ed.), Das zweite Kolberger Stadtbuch 1373–1436. Cologne: Böhlau, 2021. 892pp. €100.00 hbk.1
Elizabeth LaCouture, Dwelling in the World: Family, House, and Home in Tianjin, China, 1860–1960. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. ix + 364pp. 40 figures. 2 tables. $145.00 hbk. $35.00 pbk. 1
List of books reviewed1
Bob Morris: an appreciation0
Tim Soens, Dieter Schott, Michael Toyka-Seid and Bert De Munck (eds.), Urbanizing Nature: Actors and Agency (Dis)Connecting Cities and Natures since 1500. New York: Routledge, 2019. 33 figures. £120.00
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‘Differences within a range of similarity’: mapping Australian urban history0
Inventing sacredness in a colonial city: a British garden cemetery in nineteenth-century Hong Kong0
Boundary making in the formative years of Tel Aviv Township, 1920–19230
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When Saturday comes: football, public disorder and Liverpool's urban crisis, c. 1965–19850
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Mirelsie Velázquez, Puerto Rican Chicago: Schooling the City, 1940–1977. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2022. xi + 206pp. 3 figures. 3 tables. £19.39 pbk.0
Ben Campkin, Queer Premises: LGBTQ+ Venues in London since the 1980s. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. xv + 278pp. 30 plates. 9 figures. Bibliography. £75.00 hbk. £24.99 pbk.0
Pre-15000
The economic space of cities: an analysis of leather tanners in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Rome0
Assembling urban worlds: always-becoming urban in and through Bir al-Saba’0
Stonehouse: Scotland's last new town, c. 1967–19770
Beyond colonial urbanism: state power, global connections and fragmented land regimes in twentieth-century Hyderabad city0
List of books reviewed0
Community, culture, crisis: the inner city in England, c. 1960–19900
Vera Bácskai and her significance in the development of European urban history: a personal account0
From fertilizer to refuse: the history of human waste disposal in Shanghai, 1949–20100
Sheltering refugees: ephemeral architecture and mass migration in early modern Venice0
A. Adelusi-Adeluyi, Imagine Lagos: Mapping History, Place, and Politics in a Nineteenth-Century African City. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2024. $34.95 pbk.0
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Indoor public spaces and the mobility of religious knowledge in late medieval Deventer and Amiens0
Urban internationalism: Coventry, Kiel, reconstruction and the role of cities in British–German reconciliation, 1945–19490
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Building community through environmental regeneration: Operation Groundwork0
Enclosures and de-sacralization in Tudor Coventry, and the foundations of modern urban space0
Taylor M. Easum, Chiang Mai between Empire and Modern Thailand: A City in the Colonial Margins. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2023. 288pp. 14 illustrations, 1 table. €124.00 hbk; open access 0
Arash Khazeni, The City and the Wilderness: Indo-Persian Encounters in Southeast Asia. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2020. xv + 244pp. 2 maps. 28 figures. Bibliography. £66.00 hbk. £24.0
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Empire and Cities: Introduction0
Manon van der Heijden, Marion Pluskota and Sanne Muurling (eds.), Women's Criminality in Europe, 1600–1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xiv + 257pp. £78.99 hbk.0
John Davis, Waterloo Sunrise: London from the Sixties to Thatcher. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2022. x + 588pp. 83 plates. Bibliography. £30.00/$39.95 hbk.0
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Social housing policy in the metropolitan area of Athens during the period 1922–20120
‘This has not been done because it was not made any one's business to do it.’ Conserving Hyderabad city's Hussain Sagar tank in the late nineteenth century0
Richard J. Butler, Building the Irish Courthouse and Prison: A Political History, 1750–1850. Cork: Cork University Press, 2020. xli + 610pp. 327 plates and figures. Bibliography. €39.00 hbk.0
Industrial brewing in early modern London0
‘Why don’t you…’: R.J. Morris and the European Association for Urban History0
J. Caitlin Finlayson and Amrita Sen (eds.), Civic Performance: Pageantry and Entertainments in Early Modern London. London: Routledge, 2020. xiv + 254pp. 8 figures. Index. £120.00 hbk.0
Robert Lewis, Chicago’s Industrial Decline: The Failure of Redevelopment, 1920–1975. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2020. 272pp. 13 b&w halftones. 1 map. $39.95 hbk.0
Ren Pepitone, Brotherhood of Barristers: A Cultural History of the British Legal Profession, 1840–1940. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. xviii + 216pp. 9 figures. Bibliography. £85.00 hbk.0
‘On behalf of the city’: wax and urban diplomacy in the late medieval Baltic and North Sea0
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Benjamin Moore, The Names of John Gergen. Immigrant Identities in Early Twentieth-Century St Louis. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2021. xvi + 345pp. 40 figures. $50.00 hbk/eBook.0
Bibliography of urban history 20240
Sam Wetherell, Foundations: How the Built Environment Made Twentieth-Century Britain. Princeton University Press: Princeton, NJ, 2020. 272pp. 43 b/w illustrations. £32.00 hbk. £22.00 pbk.0
Rain and the colonial streetscape: reading for water in Freetown’s newspaper archive0
Peter Csendes and Ferdinand Opll, Wien im Mittelalter. Zeitzeugnisse und Analysen. Vienna and Cologne: Böhlau, 2021. 520pp. 48 figures. Bibliography. €45.00 hbk.0
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Smugglers and innkeepers: physical and social mobility in early modern Gemona (fifteenth to seventeenth centuries)0
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J. Dumolyn and A.-L. Van bruaene (eds.), City and State in the Medieval Low Countries: Collected Studies by Marc Boone. Turnhout: Brepols, 2021. 264pp. €84.00 hbk.0
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Bells and whistles: listening between the lines in sixteenth-century Exeter0
Matthew Wells, Modelling the Metropolis: The Architectural Model in Victorian London. Zurich: gta Verlag, 2023. 187pp. 84 plates. Bibliography. £51.35 pbk.0
Milan Pajic, Flemish Textile Workers in England, 1331–1400. Immigration, Integration and Economic Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. xvii + 332pp. 1 figure. 4 maps. 27 tables. B0
From writing to record-keeping: a study of York’s civic administrative literacy, 1272–13070
Cities, infrastructure and the making of modern citizenship: the view from north-west Europe since c. 18700
International zones in global urban history0
Benno Engels, The Poverty of Planning: Property, Class, and Urban Politics in Nineteenth-Century England. Maryland and London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. 461pp. £112.00/$145.00 hbk. £38.00/$50.000
Bruno Blondé and Jeroen Puttevils (eds.), Antwerp in the Renaissance. Turnhout: Brepols, 2020. 315pp. €94.00 hbk.0
Captured with malicious intent? The opportunities and limits of debt imprisonment in late medieval Bruges0
Alan Mayne (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Modern Slum. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. xviii + 581pp. Bibliography. £107.50 hbk.0
Recovering the past for the future: Racibórz after World War II0
‘A very exclusive experiment in communism’: the radical origins of the Manhattan co-op0
An ancient debate on urban renewal and built heritage: Dio Chrysostom and the city of Prusa0
Urban temporal infrastructures in nineteenth-century Paris0
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Going to the cinema: princely urbanism in Hyderabad and Secunderabad0
Tara A. Dudley, Building Antebellum New Orleans: Free People of Color and Their Influence. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2021. i + 336pp. 20 plates. 83 figures. 22 tables. Bibliography. £48.52 hb0
Tom Allbeson, Photography, Reconstruction and the Cultural History of the Postwar European City. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2021. xvii + 272pp. 66 figures. £96.00 hbk. £29.59 eBook; $124.00 hbk0
For fame and fortune: the origins of St Petersburg’s zoo, 1865–18710
The plans for Tokyo Bay: the challenge of urban policy, 1950s–1990s0
Noise, yelling and dialects: sonic territories in two Copenhagen marketplaces 1790–19400
David Fée, Bob Colenutt and Sabine Coady Schäbitz (eds.), Lessons from the British and French New Towns: Paradise Lost? Bingley: Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021. 266pp. 15 figures. 3 tables. £70.00 h0
Regulating sense and space in late Renaissance Florence0
Merchants’ agents and the process of bottom-up harmonization between European towns, fourteenth to sixteenth centuries0
Jaap Evert Abrahamse and Heidi Deneweth (eds.),Transforming Space: Visible and Invisible Changes in Premodern European Cities, Studies in European Urban History (1100–1800) volume 58. Tu0
Franz Prichard, Residual Futures: The Urban Ecologies of Literary and Visual Media of 1960s and 1970s Japan. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. 280pp. 19 figures. £81.00 hbk. £28.00 pbk. £28.00
Colin J. Brett (ed.),Thomas Kytson's ‘Boke of Remembraunce’ 1529–1540. London Record Society, 54. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2020. 512pp. 77 figures. £40.00 / $70.00 hbk.0
John Garrard and Ekaterina Mikhailova (eds.), Twin Cities: Urban Communities, Borders and Relationships over Time. London: Routledge, 2019. xxiv + 334pp. £120.00 hbk. £36.99 pbk. £33.29 ebk. - John Ga0
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Amy D. Finstein, Modern Mobility Aloft: Elevated Highways, Architecture, and Urban Change in Pre-Interstate America. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2020. 304pp. 103 halftones. 12 maps. $115.500
Parker Daly Everett, Urban Transformations: From Liberalism to Corporatism 1871–1933. Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, 2019. 392pp. $92.00 hbk.0
The non-religious and the European city in the nineteenth century: the development of crematories in Milan and Gotha0
Diana J. Montaño, Electrifying Mexico: Technology and the Transformation of a Modern City. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2021. xvi + 392pp. Bibliography. £43.74 hbk. £26.98 pbk.0
Andrew Hobbs (ed.), The Diaries of Anthony Hewitson, Provincial Journalist, vol. I: 1865–1887. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2022. xlix + 672pp. 5 plates. 3 figures. Bibliography, £35.95 hbk0
Artisans’ chase for urban space. Clusters of construction entrepreneurs in Brussels, c. 1830–19300
Richard Kirkland, Irish London: A Cultural History 1850–1916. London: Bloomsbury, 2022. 223pp. 10 illustrations. £90.00 hbk. £28.99 pbk.0
A myth of modernity: the market hall reforms in China, 1900s–1940s0
To be had for a Pesthouse for the use of this parish’: plague pesthouses in early Stuart London, c. 1600–16500
Quinn Slobodian, Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World without Democracy. London: Allen Lane, 2023. 352pp. 13 maps. Bibliography. £25.00 hbk. £10.99 pbk.0
Administering justice to foreigners: international merchants and mariners before the late medieval Aberdeen courts0
Fleeting gestures and changing styles of greeting: researching daily life in British towns in the long eighteenth century0
Jacek Blaszkiewicz, Fanfare for a City: Music and the Urban Imagination in Haussmann’s Paris. Oakland: University of California Press, 2024. xi + 250pp. 11 illustrations. 12 musical examples. Bibliogr0
Eloise Moss, Night Raiders: Burglary and the Making of Modern Urban Life in London, 1860–1968. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. 250pp. £27.99 hbk.0
Enfolding empire into 1930s London: the India Round Table Conference0
Index of towns0
From post-war reconciliation to European integration? Competing historicities of ‘exchange’ in European small-town twinning0
The facade of power and the power of the facade: memory and meaning in Victorian cities0
Elizabeth A. New (ed.), Records of the Jesus Guild in St Paul's Cathedral, c. 1450–1550: An Edition of Oxford, Bodleian MS Tanner 221, and Associated Material. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2022. 0
Bibliography of urban history 20210
Brenna Bhandar, Colonial Lives of Property: Law, Land, and Racial Regimes of Ownership. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. 280pp. Bibliography. $102.95 hbk.0
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Hands over the city: the Mafia, L'Ora and the sack of Palermo0
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The historic city and the East–West exchange: architecture, urban renewal and international knowledge transfers under state socialism in Hungary0
Neal Shasore, Designs on Democracy: Architecture and the Public in Interwar London. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. xxvii + 432pp. 142 illustrations. Bibliography. £71.00 hbk.0
Empires’ city-building and the 1792 intervention of Aupaumut's book0
Görkem Akgöz, In the Shadow of War and Empire: Industrialisation, Nation-Building, and Working-Class Politics in Turkey. Studies in the Social History of the Global South. Leiden: Brill, 2024. xvii + 0
Owen Hatherley, Walking the Streets/Walking the Projects: Adventures in Social Democracy in NYC and DC. London: Repeater, 2024. 218pp. £10.99 pbk. - Jon Winder, Designed for Play: Children’s Playgrou0
Cosmopolitan underworld: opiate refinement in inter-war Istanbul0
Housing inequality and social segregation in Leiden, 1561–16060
Bruno Blondé, Marc Boone and Anne-Laure Van Bruaene (eds.), City and Society in the Low Countries, 1100–1600. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xvii + 303pp. 16 figures. Bibliography. Index0
The birth of oppida: small towns in Hungary in the Angevin period0
Caroline M. Barron and Laura Wright (eds.), The London Jubilee Book, 1376–1387. An Edition of Trinity College Cambridge MS O.3.11, folios 133–157. London Record Society 55. Woodbridge: Boydell & B0
Public services and the urban middling sort: the provision of water in Bristol, Chester and Ipswich, 1540–16400
Simon Gunn and Tom Hulme (eds.), New Approaches to Governance and Rule in Urban Europe since 1500. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2020, xviii + 285pp. 14 figures. 1 table. £120 hbk. £36.99 ebk.0
Princely urbanism and the colonial city: Bombay, c. 1860–1940s0
List of books reviewed0
Alistair Kefford, The Life and Death of the Shopping City. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 340pp. 40 figures. Bibliography. £90.00 hbk.0
Index of towns0
List of books reviewed0
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Post-18000
European Association for Urban History Conference, ‘Inequality and the city’, Antwerp, 31 August – 3 September 20220
Justin O’Connor, Culture Is Not an Industry: Reclaiming Art and Culture for the Common Good. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2024. 304pp. £85.00 hbk. £14.99 pbk. £14.99 eBook.0
List of Dyos Prize winners 1992–20230
Mervyn Busteed, The Sash on the Mersey: The Orange Order in Liverpool 1819–1982. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2023. xi + 272pp. 22 plates. Bibliography. £110.00 hbk.0
Stefan Höhne, Riding the New York Subway: The Invention of the Modern Passenger. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2021 [Cologne: Böhlau Verlag, 2017]. xvi + 365pp. 60 figures. Bibliography. £40.00 pbk.0
East Germany and the lost German East: Dresden–Wrocław ‘socialist friendship’ after Nazism and forced migration0
Katherine French, Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. 314pp. 50 figures, 2 maps, 9 tables. £52.00 hbk.0
Ben Anderson, Cities, Mountains and Being Modern in fin-de-siècle England and Germany. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, xii + 302pp. £64.99 hbk. £51.99 eBook.0
Pre-15000
Letters of challenge: displayed writing, urban public space and honour culture in seventeenth-century Madrid0
Lodging houses as facilitators of global and local entanglements in harbour districts: evidence from the port of Antwerp c. 1860–19100
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There’s no time like the present: path-dependent urban growth, agglomeration economies and congestion externalities in contemporary Athens0
Waterworks, municipal government and the environment in twentieth-century Britain0
Ben Wilson, Metropolis. A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention. New York: Vintage, 2021. 442pp. 30 plates. £10.99 pbk.0
Apple seeds: R.J. Morris’ pedagogy in history and computing0
The image of the foreign squatter: British and Irish youths in the Dutch city of Leiden during the 1990s0
Sīyaḍoṇi: an unplanned town of the Gurjara-Pratīhāra times0
Sophie Cooper, Forging Identities in the Irish World: Melbourne and Chicago, c. 1830–1922. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022. vi + 258pp. Bibliography. $110.00 hbk.0
Refugees, expellees and immigrants: comparing migrant reception policies and practices in post-war Bristol, Dortmund and Malmö0
David Rooney, Spaces of Congestion and Traffic: Politics and Technologies in Twentieth-Century London. London: Routledge, 2019. x + 221pp. 15 figures. 7 tables. £120.00 hbk. £36.99 pbk. £36.99 eBook.0
Visions of public and private mobility: the Kowloon railway terminus in Hong Kong0
Vera Bácskai and urban history: life, work and impact0
Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite and Natalie Thomlinson, Women and the Miners’ Strike, 1984–1985. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. vii + 279pp. 27 figures. 9 tables. Bibliography. £35 hbk.0
Sunlight and free markets: an urban political ecological perspective on social housing in Victorian London (1850–1914)0
Toward a Japanese paradigm of settler-colonial urbanism?0
Miri Rubin, Cities of Strangers: Making Lives in Medieval Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xv + 185pp. 5 figures. 2 maps. Index. £18.99 pbk.0
‘The Thaw’ in the Arctic: constructing Mirny as a Soviet Arctic city of a new type0
Inner-city possibilities: using place and space to facilitate inter-ethnic dating and romance in 1960s–1980s Leicester0
Carla Roth, The Talk of the Town: Information and Community in Sixteenth-Century Switzerland. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. xiii + 191pp. 14 illustrations. 4 tables. Index. £75.00 hbk.0
Cristina Viviana Groeger, The Education Trap: Schools and the Remaking of Inequality in Boston. Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2021. 384pp. 24 illustrations. 1 map. £28.95 hbk.0
The legal position of guests in late medieval Stockholm0
Review of periodical articles0
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Active citizen or pest? Civic authorities, democratization and citizenship in inter-war England0
‘A large population, famous for their military qualities’: Londoners at war, c. 1000–12000
‘To his utter undoing in this world’: maintaining, contesting and crossing Hanseatic legal boundaries in medieval London and Bruges0
Sovereign dreams and bureaucratic strategies in princely Jaipur, c. 1750–19500
Michael E. Smith, Urban Life in the Distant Past: The Prehistory of Energized Crowding. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Xviii + 350pp. 83 figures. 17 tables. £100.00 hbk.0
Malte Fuhrmann, Port Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean: Urban Culture in the Late Ottoman Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xi + 477pp. 9 figures. 1 table. Bibliography. £75.00 hb0
Municipal modernity: the politics of leisure and Johannesburg's swimming baths, 1920s to 1930s0
Paternalism, petitions and the politics of church construction in Alsace, c. 1850–18850
Egalitarian greetings: the social spread of the handshake in urbanizing Britain, 1700–18500
Ottawa, 1857–1860: the making of Canada's capital city on the eve of Confederation0
Making the global turn matter: strategies and pathways0
Beyond formal and informal: mid-twentieth-century residential architecture in Barcelona’s El Carmel neighbourhood0
Fabrizio Nevola, Street Life in Renaissance Italy. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 2020. 320pp. 160 figures. Bibliography. £45.00 hbk.0
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The politics of reciprocity: urban councils and intercity conflict management in Reval (Tallinn) and Lübeck, c. 1470–15700
Politics in the street: the materiality of urban public spaces in Renaissance Italy0
In search of the bourgeoisie: Bob Morris and the urban history of class0
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R.J. Morris: An Appreciation – Introduction to Special Section0
Post-18000
Janna Coomans, Community, Urban Health and Environment in the Late Medieval Low Countries. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. xiv + 334pp. 19 figures. 4 maps. 3 tables. Bibliography. £75.00 0
Juliana Adelman, Civilised by Beasts: Animals and Urban Change in Nineteenth-Century Dublin. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020. 248pp. 28 figures. £85.00 hbk. £14.99 pbk.0
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Margaret Cook, Lionel Frost, Andrea Gaynor, Jenny Gregory, Ruth A. Morgan, Martin Shanahan and Peter Spearritt, Cities in a Sunburnt Country: Water and the Making of Urban Australia. Cambridge: Cambri0
Charlie Taverner, Street Food. Hawkers and the History of London. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. xi + 244pp. 17 figures inc. 2 maps, 15 illustrations. Index. £32.49 hbk.0
Making urban memory visible: the on-screen transformation of Beijing’s hutong districts during modernization (1940s–2010s)0
Masjids, monuments and refugees in the Partition city of Delhi, 1947–19590
Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay, Streets in Motion: The Making of Infrastructure, Property, and Political Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. xiv + 305pp. 5 maps. 13 tables. 12 images. Bibli0
Joseph Brady, Dublin from 1970 to 1990: The City Transformed. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2022. 456pp. 262 plates. 14 tables. Bibliography. £36.39 hbk. £26.25 pbk.0
Novel, popular, fashionable and partisan: making coffeehouses ‘burgherly’ spaces in early modern Hamburg0
Homicide in early modern Bologna: a prepositional cartography0
Stephen Stuempfle, Port of Spain: The Construction of a Caribbean City, 1888–1962. Jamaica: The University of the West Indies Press, 2018. xiii + 465pp. 31 plates. 7 figures. Bibliography. £78.00 pbk.0
Richard D. Wragg, The Guild Book of the Barbers and Surgeons of York (British Library, Egerton MS 2572): Study and Edition. Woodbridge: York Medieval Press in association with Boydell & Brewer, 200
Doors, privacy and the public sphere: a conceptual discussion on the spatial structure of early modern Istanbul0
Lena Liapi, Roguery in Print: Crime and Culture in Early Modern London. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2019. ix + 194pp. 6 Plates. 3 Figures. £65.00 hbk.0
The establishment of the police office in mid-eighteenth-century Altona: new opportunities for privacy in transitional times?0
James H. Murphy, The Politics of Dublin Corporation 1840–1900: From Reform to Expansion. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2020. 224pp. €45.00 hbk.0
Andrew Israel Ross, Public City/Public Sex. Homosexuality, Prostitution, and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2019. xi + 264pp. $110.50 hbk. $34.95 pbk0
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Mats Berglund, Lars Nilsson and Per Gunnar Sidén, Swedish Urban History: An Introduction. Stockholm: Stads- och kommunhistoriska institutet, 2023. 185pp. 5 figures. 1 table. Bibliography. 180 SEK pbk.0
AIDS and the city: bathhouses, emplaced empathy and the de-sexualization of San Francisco0
Toby Lincoln, An Urban History of China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. x + 273pp. 7 figures. 14 maps. 2 tables. Bibliography. £22.99 pbk.0
Slum clearance in a ‘semi-colony’: coercion and restraint in policing practices in 1930s Shanghai0
‘To stay, serve and witness’ – church politics and British inner cities in the 1980s0
Princely cities in South Asia, c. 1850–1950: themes and perspectives0
Paul Watt, Estate Regeneration and Its Discontents: Public Housing, Place and Inequality in London. Bristol: Policy Press, 2021. xiv + 506pp. 54 plates. 14 figures. 7 tables. Bibliography. £75.00 hbk.0
Making manifestos for urban history: creative collaboration in a conference workshop0
Introduction: the material culture of public space in early modern Europe0
Stephanie Newell, Histories of Dirt: Media and Urban Life in Colonial and Postcolonial Lagos. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2020. xvi + 249pp. 14 illustrations. Bibliography. $26.95 pbk.0
Carnival and urban space in Athens, 1834–19400
Destruction, delay and déjà vu: the restoration of Dublin’s O’Connell Street after the Irish civil war, 1922–19330
George J. Severs, Radical Acts: HIV/AIDS Activism in Late Twentieth-Century England. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. xiii + 237pp. 6 figures. £65.00 hbk. £21.99 pbk.0
‘Dance is a disease for us’: dancing through the night as a threat to moral order in urbanizing Estonia0
Twinning across the Adriatic: history, memory and municipal co-operation between Italy and Yugoslavia during the Cold War0
The impact of the British Civil Wars on the meanings and uses of the urban topography of Colchester in the long nineteenth century0
Urban space, power and people through the optic of cemeteries in late medieval Cairo and Paris0
Nicole Eaton, German Blood, Slavic Soil. How Nazi Königsberg Became Soviet Kaliningrad. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2023. xiii + 312pp. 4 plates. 11 figures. Bibliography. £31.00 hbk. $14.00 ebk0
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Mark Gamsa, Harbin: A Cross-Cultural Biography. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021. ix + 383pp. 3 maps. 21 illustrations. $90.00 hbk. $39.95 pbk. $42.95 eBook.0
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