Urban History

Papers
(The median citation count 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Bibliography of urban history 202210
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Arcaded houses in urban planning: Silesia (Poland) in the European context5
Carl Abbott, Suburbs. A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. 140pp. 10 b/w images. Ppk £8.99.4
Moving ‘out’ to be ‘in’: the suburbanization of London Jewry, 1900–19394
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. £85.3
Revisiting the playground: Charles Wicksteed, play equipment and public spaces for children in early twentieth-century Britain2
1500–18002
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 h2
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. Bi2
Post-18001
Cosmopolitan underworld: opiate refinement in inter-war Istanbul1
UHY volume 51 issue 2 Cover and Back matter1
Ambiguities of urban détente: East German town twinning and the struggle with globalization in the 1960s1
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
List of books reviewed1
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
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
Catchwater colonialism: reshaping Hong Kong’s hydrology, infrastructure, metabolism and landscape, 1937–19681
AIDS and the city: bathhouses, emplaced empathy and the de-sexualization of San Francisco1
Inventing sacredness in a colonial city: a British garden cemetery in nineteenth-century Hong Kong1
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.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
How deep is your love? Patriotism, money and the people in Canton in the early phase of the Sino-Japanese War, 1937–19381
Resilient forces of public amusement: the negotiation of ‘urban modernity’ in a peripheral port city (1880s–1930s)1
List of books reviewed1
Matthew Wells, Modelling the Metropolis: The Architectural Model in Victorian London. Zurich: gta Verlag, 2023. 187pp. 84 plates. Bibliography. £51.35 pbk.1
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 hbk1
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.1
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.1
Introduction: the material culture of public space in early modern Europe1
‘Monarchical modern’: the making of Mysore city, 1880–19401
1500–18001
Respectability and race between the suburb and the city: an argument about the making of ‘inner-city’ London1
The Ford Foundation and the Community Facilities Program in Chile: a proposal between local needs and foreign technical assistance (1964–1969)1
UHY volume 49 issue 4 Cover and Front matter1
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
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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
Empires’ city-building and the 1792 intervention of Aupaumut's book0
Administering justice to foreigners: international merchants and mariners before the late medieval Aberdeen courts0
Sunlight and free markets: an urban political ecological perspective on social housing in Victorian London (1850–1914)0
Egalitarian greetings: the social spread of the handshake in urbanizing Britain, 1700–18500
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
Social housing policy in the metropolitan area of Athens during the period 1922–20120
The facade of power and the power of the facade: memory and meaning in Victorian cities0
Post-18000
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
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
Index of towns0
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From fertilizer to refuse: the history of human waste disposal in Shanghai, 1949–20100
Cities, infrastructure and the making of modern citizenship: the view from north-west Europe since c. 18700
A myth of modernity: the market hall reforms in China, 1900s–1940s0
The transfer of foreign modernity in Beijing: the new urban space in the Legation Quarter, 1900–19280
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
Empire and Cities: Introduction0
Urban peripherality, proximity and hostility in Mandate Palestine: the case of Bat Galim and HaTikvah neighbourhoods0
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
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
The economic space of cities: an analysis of leather tanners in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Rome0
Enfolding empire into 1930s London: the India Round Table Conference0
Ritualizing citizenship in fifteenth-century Barcelona0
‘Why don’t you…’: R.J. Morris and the European Association for Urban History0
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
The establishment of the police office in mid-eighteenth-century Altona: new opportunities for privacy in transitional times?0
Waterworks, municipal government and the environment in twentieth-century Britain0
To be had for a Pesthouse for the use of this parish’: plague pesthouses in early Stuart London, c. 1600–16500
Charles-François Mathis and Émilie-Anne Pepy, Greening the City: Nature in French Towns from the 17th Century. Winwick: White Horse Press. 2020. 340pp. 54 figures. £75.00 hbk.0
1500–18000
‘A very exclusive experiment in communism’: the radical origins of the Manhattan co-op0
From writing to record-keeping: a study of York’s civic administrative literacy, 1272–13070
From post-war reconciliation to European integration? Competing historicities of ‘exchange’ in European small-town twinning0
The politics of reciprocity: urban councils and intercity conflict management in Reval (Tallinn) and Lübeck, c. 1470–15700
Shabna Begum, From Sylhet to Spitalfields: Bengali Squatters in 1970s East London. London: Lawrence Wishart, 2023. 232pp. £16.00 pbk.0
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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Pre-15000
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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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
Lodging houses as facilitators of global and local entanglements in harbour districts: evidence from the port of Antwerp c. 1860–19100
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
European Association for Urban History Conference, ‘Inequality and the city’, Antwerp, 31 August – 3 September 20220
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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
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
Elsa Devienne, Sand Rush: The Revival of the Beach in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. xiii + 303pp. 39 figures. Bibliography. £26.99 hbk; £22.49 ebk.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
Regulating sense and space in late Renaissance Florence0
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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
Visions of public and private mobility: the Kowloon railway terminus in Hong Kong0
In search of the bourgeoisie: Bob Morris and the urban history of class0
Going to the cinema: princely urbanism in Hyderabad and Secunderabad0
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
Community, culture, crisis: the inner city in England, c. 1960–19900
‘Differences within a range of similarity’: mapping Australian urban history0
Housing inequality and social segregation in Leiden, 1561–16060
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
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
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
Sovereign dreams and bureaucratic strategies in princely Jaipur, c. 1750–19500
Urban space, power and people through the optic of cemeteries in late medieval Cairo and Paris0
Meat supply dynamics and public–private relationships in urban provisioning: the case of Coimbra (Portugal, c. 1610–1832)0
Assembling urban worlds: always-becoming urban in and through Bir al-Saba’0
Indoor public spaces and the mobility of religious knowledge in late medieval Deventer and Amiens0
Bibliography of urban history 20240
Municipal modernity: the politics of leisure and Johannesburg's swimming baths, 1920s to 1930s0
‘To his utter undoing in this world’: maintaining, contesting and crossing Hanseatic legal boundaries in medieval London and Bruges0
Captured with malicious intent? The opportunities and limits of debt imprisonment in late medieval Bruges0
The plans for Tokyo Bay: the challenge of urban policy, 1950s–1990s0
Index of towns0
The rise and fall of Japan’s municipal electricity regulation, 1889–19390
Toward a Japanese paradigm of settler-colonial urbanism?0
The non-religious and the European city in the nineteenth century: the development of crematories in Milan and Gotha0
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
Flows and fixes: water, disease and housing in Bangalore, 1860–19150
Fabrizio Nevola, Street Life in Renaissance Italy. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 2020. 320pp. 160 figures. Bibliography. £45.00 hbk.0
Politics in the street: the materiality of urban public spaces in Renaissance Italy0
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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
‘Dance is a disease for us’: dancing through the night as a threat to moral order in urbanizing Estonia0
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
Paternalism, petitions and the politics of church construction in Alsace, c. 1850–18850
The cost of living in early modern cities: a study on eighteenth-century northern Italy0
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
Hands over the city: the Mafia, L'Ora and the sack of Palermo0
The volatile neighbourhood: urban proximity, precarity and public order in early twentieth-century Kanpur city in the United Provinces of British India0
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Stonehouse: Scotland's last new town, c. 1967–19770
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Geoffrey Tyack, The Making of Our Urban Landscape. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. xv + 367pp. 144 illustrations and maps. Further Reading. £25.00 hbk.0
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
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
Bibliography of urban history 20210
Property disputes, neighbourhood development and everyday life in Epetedo, colonial Lagos, 1927–19470
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
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Beyond colonial urbanism: state power, global connections and fragmented land regimes in twentieth-century Hyderabad city0
‘On behalf of the city’: wax and urban diplomacy in the late medieval Baltic and North Sea0
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Industrial brewing in early modern London0
East Germany and the lost German East: Dresden–Wrocław ‘socialist friendship’ after Nazism and forced migration0
Late-night noise hazards and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's countermeasures in the 1960s0
Ben Wilson, Metropolis. A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention. New York: Vintage, 2021. 442pp. 30 plates. £10.99 pbk.0
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
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
An ancient debate on urban renewal and built heritage: Dio Chrysostom and the city of Prusa0
Apple seeds: R.J. Morris’ pedagogy in history and computing0
‘A firm foundation for future understanding, respect and friendship’: the ideals and reality of post-war town twinning, 1945–20200
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
Doors, privacy and the public sphere: a conceptual discussion on the spatial structure of early modern Istanbul0
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
Ottawa, 1857–1860: the making of Canada's capital city on the eve of Confederation0
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
List of Dyos Prize winners 1992–20230
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
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
‘The Thaw’ in the Arctic: constructing Mirny as a Soviet Arctic city of a new type0
UHY volume 50 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
R.J. Morris: An Appreciation – Introduction to Special Section0
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Inner-city possibilities: using place and space to facilitate inter-ethnic dating and romance in 1960s–1980s Leicester0
When Saturday comes: football, public disorder and Liverpool's urban crisis, c. 1965–19850
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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
Beyond formal and informal: mid-twentieth-century residential architecture in Barcelona’s El Carmel neighbourhood0
Richard Kirkland, Irish London: A Cultural History 1850–1916. London: Bloomsbury, 2022. 223pp. 10 illustrations. £90.00 hbk. £28.99 pbk.0
Merchants’ agents and the process of bottom-up harmonization between European towns, fourteenth to sixteenth centuries0
Jennifer Hart, Making an African City: Technopolitics and the Infrastructure of Everyday Life in Colonial Accra. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2024. vii + 291pp. Bibliography. 21 figures. $900
Profiling local chroniclers in the early modern Low Countries0
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
Active citizen or pest? Civic authorities, democratization and citizenship in inter-war England0
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Recovering the past for the future: Racibórz after World War II0
The legal position of guests in late medieval Stockholm0
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
Building community through environmental regeneration: Operation Groundwork0
The impact of the British Civil Wars on the meanings and uses of the urban topography of Colchester in the long nineteenth century0
Alistair Kefford, The Life and Death of the Shopping City. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 340pp. 40 figures. Bibliography. £90.00 hbk.0
Post-18000
Pre-15000
Boundary making in the formative years of Tel Aviv Township, 1920–19230
International zones in global urban history0
Making the global turn matter: strategies and pathways0
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
Masjids, monuments and refugees in the Partition city of Delhi, 1947–19590
Bibliography of urban history 20230
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
Urban internationalism: Coventry, Kiel, reconstruction and the role of cities in British–German reconciliation, 1945–19490
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
Making urban memory visible: the on-screen transformation of Beijing’s hutong districts during modernization (1940s–2010s)0
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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
Rain and the colonial streetscape: reading for water in Freetown’s newspaper archive0
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
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
Bells and whistles: listening between the lines in sixteenth-century Exeter0
‘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
Princely urbanism and the colonial city: Bombay, c. 1860–1940s0
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The image of the foreign squatter: British and Irish youths in the Dutch city of Leiden during the 1990s0
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
Review of periodical articles0
Refugees, expellees and immigrants: comparing migrant reception policies and practices in post-war Bristol, Dortmund and Malmö0
Smugglers and innkeepers: physical and social mobility in early modern Gemona (fifteenth to seventeenth centuries)0
Parker Daly Everett, Urban Transformations: From Liberalism to Corporatism 1871–1933. Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, 2019. 392pp. $92.00 hbk.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
Annalise J.K. DeVries, Maadi: The Making and Unmaking of a Suburb. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2021. 264pp. £39.95 hbk.0
Index of towns0
Peter Csendes and Ferdinand Opll, Wien im Mittelalter. Zeitzeugnisse und Analysen. Vienna and Cologne: Böhlau, 2021. 520pp. 48 figures. Bibliography. €45.00 hbk.0
Slum clearance in a ‘semi-colony’: coercion and restraint in policing practices in 1930s Shanghai0
Sīyaḍoṇi: an unplanned town of the Gurjara-Pratīhāra times0
There’s no time like the present: path-dependent urban growth, agglomeration economies and congestion externalities in contemporary Athens0
Bob Morris: an appreciation0
Princely cities in South Asia, c. 1850–1950: themes and perspectives0
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
Carnival and urban space in Athens, 1834–19400
The harat of Sétif: living together in a colonial Algerian town0
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
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
Alan Mayne (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Modern Slum. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. xviii + 581pp. Bibliography. £107.50 hbk.0
Public services and the urban middling sort: the provision of water in Bristol, Chester and Ipswich, 1540–16400
Noise, yelling and dialects: sonic territories in two Copenhagen marketplaces 1790–19400
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Urban temporal infrastructures in nineteenth-century Paris0
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
Making manifestos for urban history: creative collaboration in a conference workshop0
Arbella Bet-Shlimon, City of Black Gold: Oil, Ethnicity, and the Making of Modern Kirkuk. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019. xviii + 275pp. $19.60 hbk.0
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
Homicide in early modern Bologna: a prepositional cartography0
Novel, popular, fashionable and partisan: making coffeehouses ‘burgherly’ spaces in early modern Hamburg0
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
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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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
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
‘In the neighbourhood’: social solidarity and the politics of urban governance in colonial Accra0
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
An invitation to a party? Staging urban proximity and the colonial public in nineteenth-century Batavia0
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