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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Bibliography of urban history 20228
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A riverine society: Iquitos and the precarious urbanization of Amazonia3
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
Navigating the discourse of planning history: insights for urban historians from the 20th IPHS biennial conference, Hong Kong, China2
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
Moving ‘out’ to be ‘in’: the suburbanization of London Jewry, 1900–19392
Arcaded houses in urban planning: Silesia (Poland) in the European context2
1500–18002
Carl Abbott, Suburbs. A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. 140pp. 10 b/w images. Ppk £8.99.2
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
Resilient forces of public amusement: the negotiation of ‘urban modernity’ in a peripheral port city (1880s–1930s)1
Margarita’s La Habana: colonial ports and Black ecologies in early nineteenth-century Havana1
On second sight: the impact of architectural knowledge on travel guidebooks and the tourist gaze on Amsterdam1
The Ford Foundation and the Community Facilities Program in Chile: a proposal between local needs and foreign technical assistance (1964–1969)1
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
UHY volume 49 issue 4 Cover and Front matter1
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
Faecal matters: an excremental archive of early Port Said1
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
Post-18001
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
‘Monarchical modern’: the making of Mysore city, 1880–19401
How deep is your love? Patriotism, money and the people in Canton in the early phase of the Sino-Japanese War, 1937–19381
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
List of books reviewed1
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
Introduction: the material culture of public space in early modern Europe1
Nuclear urbanity as heritage1
UHY volume 51 issue 2 Cover and Back matter1
Catchwater colonialism: reshaping Hong Kong’s hydrology, infrastructure, metabolism and landscape, 1937–19681
List of books reviewed1
1500–18001
Ambiguities of urban détente: East German town twinning and the struggle with globalization in the 1960s1
Matthew Wells, Modelling the Metropolis: The Architectural Model in Victorian London. Zurich: gta Verlag, 2023. 187pp. 84 plates. Bibliography. £51.35 pbk.1
Industrial brewing in early modern London1
Inventing sacredness in a colonial city: a British garden cemetery in nineteenth-century Hong Kong1
AIDS and the city: bathhouses, emplaced empathy and the de-sexualization of San Francisco1
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
Paternalism, petitions and the politics of church construction in Alsace, c. 1850–18850
Promoting normalcy: the Amsterdam tourist association VVV during World War II0
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
James H. Murphy, The Politics of Dublin Corporation 1840–1900: From Reform to Expansion. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2020. 224pp. €45.00 hbk.0
Urban history as urgent work, an argument for disciplinary promiscuity0
UHY volume 50 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
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
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
Rediscovering Shanghai modern: Chinese cosmopolitanism and the urban art scene, 1912–19480
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
UHY volume 50 issue 3 Cover and Back matter0
List of Dyos Prize winners 1992–20230
Imperialization of street names as part of the cultural appropriation of urban space in late imperial Vilnius0
Pre-15000
Smugglers and innkeepers: physical and social mobility in early modern Gemona (fifteenth to seventeenth centuries)0
UHY volume 51 issue 4 Cover and Front matter0
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
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
Slum clearance in a ‘semi-colony’: coercion and restraint in policing practices in 1930s Shanghai0
Imperial mirrors: multifunctional urban toponymy in the Romanov Empire0
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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
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
Merchants’ agents and the process of bottom-up harmonization between European towns, fourteenth to sixteenth centuries0
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
‘A firm foundation for future understanding, respect and friendship’: the ideals and reality of post-war town twinning, 1945–20200
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
Bruno Blondé and Jeroen Puttevils (eds.), Antwerp in the Renaissance. Turnhout: Brepols, 2020. 315pp. €94.00 hbk.0
Noise, yelling and dialects: sonic territories in two Copenhagen marketplaces 1790–19400
Meat supply dynamics and public–private relationships in urban provisioning: the case of Coimbra (Portugal, c. 1610–1832)0
The impact of the British Civil Wars on the meanings and uses of the urban topography of Colchester in the long nineteenth century0
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
‘In the neighbourhood’: social solidarity and the politics of urban governance in colonial Accra0
List of books reviewed0
Urban peripherality, proximity and hostility in Mandate Palestine: the case of Bat Galim and HaTikvah neighbourhoods0
Index of towns0
Stonehouse: Scotland's last new town, c. 1967–19770
Introduction: writing the history of port cities after the global turn0
Homicide in early modern Bologna: a prepositional cartography0
‘Dance is a disease for us’: dancing through the night as a threat to moral order in urbanizing Estonia0
‘Since it’s about to be a capital’: managing urban growth and pasturage in early Soviet Bishkek0
The volatile neighbourhood: urban proximity, precarity and public order in early twentieth-century Kanpur city in the United Provinces of British India0
Beyond colonial urbanism: state power, global connections and fragmented land regimes in twentieth-century Hyderabad city0
The non-religious and the European city in the nineteenth century: the development of crematories in Milan and Gotha0
Cosmopolitan underworld: opiate refinement in inter-war Istanbul0
The cost of living in early modern cities: a study on eighteenth-century northern Italy0
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
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Chronicling the city they built: ‘first-builders’ as guardians of memory in Komsomolsk-na-Amure0
The Scottish urban hierarchy and its interaction with the print trade and venues for reading, as revealed by an 1820s trade directory0
Building community through environmental regeneration: Operation Groundwork0
The harat of Sétif: living together in a colonial Algerian town0
Property disputes, neighbourhood development and everyday life in Epetedo, colonial Lagos, 1927–19470
Assembling urban worlds: always-becoming urban in and through Bir al-Saba’0
Empire and Cities: Introduction0
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
Refugees, expellees and immigrants: comparing migrant reception policies and practices in post-war Bristol, Dortmund and Malmö0
UHY volume 51 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
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
Conclusion: the social environments of port cities in the longue durée0
The establishment of the police office in mid-eighteenth-century Altona: new opportunities for privacy in transitional times?0
Hands over the city: the Mafia, L'Ora and the sack of Palermo0
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
‘Why don’t you…’: R.J. Morris and the European Association for Urban History0
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Masjids, monuments and refugees in the Partition city of Delhi, 1947–19590
The plans for Tokyo Bay: the challenge of urban policy, 1950s–1990s0
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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1500–18000
‘The Thaw’ in the Arctic: constructing Mirny as a Soviet Arctic city of a new type0
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Sovereign dreams and bureaucratic strategies in princely Jaipur, c. 1750–19500
Alan Mayne (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Modern Slum. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. xviii + 581pp. Bibliography. £107.50 hbk.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
Pre-15000
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
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
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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
Peter Csendes and Ferdinand Opll, Wien im Mittelalter. Zeitzeugnisse und Analysen. Vienna and Cologne: Böhlau, 2021. 520pp. 48 figures. Bibliography. €45.00 hbk.0
European Association for Urban History Conference, ‘Inequality and the city’, Antwerp, 31 August – 3 September 20220
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
Urban temporal infrastructures in nineteenth-century Paris0
Apple seeds: R.J. Morris’ pedagogy in history and computing0
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
From writing to record-keeping: a study of York’s civic administrative literacy, 1272–13070
Troubled waters: rewriting environmental histories of Lagos, 1882–19210
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
‘Differences within a range of similarity’: mapping Australian urban history0
Carnival and urban space in Athens, 1834–19400
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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
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
Extractive assistance: copper mining, socialist development and urban planning in Mongolia, 1962–19830
Conceptualizing choices in the commuter belt: travel time and journeys to work in late twentieth-century Sydney and Melbourne, Australia0
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
Active citizen or pest? Civic authorities, democratization and citizenship in inter-war England0
The politics of reciprocity: urban councils and intercity conflict management in Reval (Tallinn) and Lübeck, c. 1470–15700
‘In Brussels? First to the Royal Museums of the Cinquantenaire!’ Urban tourism and the marketing of museums in inter-war Belgium, 1919–390
Administering justice to foreigners: international merchants and mariners before the late medieval Aberdeen courts0
Cities, infrastructure and the making of modern citizenship: the view from north-west Europe since c. 18700
For fame and fortune: the origins of St Petersburg’s zoo, 1865–18710
Alistair Kefford, The Life and Death of the Shopping City. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 340pp. 40 figures. Bibliography. £90.00 hbk.0
List of books reviewed0
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
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
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
Projecting cities: illustrated lantern lectures as forgotten practice of place promotion in Belgium, c. 1900 – c. 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
Index of towns0
Hidden in plain sight: oil heritage in a still-industrial city0
Settling for less: the uneven urbanization and modernization of nineteenth-century Calcutta0
Making the global turn matter: strategies and pathways0
Sīyaḍoṇi: an unplanned town of the Gurjara-Pratīhāra times0
Ritualizing citizenship in fifteenth-century Barcelona0
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
Ghosts and hidden geographies: the affective resonances of space in early modern London0
A myth of modernity: the market hall reforms in China, 1900s–1940s0
Toward a Japanese paradigm of settler-colonial urbanism?0
From fertilizer to refuse: the history of human waste disposal in Shanghai, 1949–20100
Cocaine Alley queens: gender, race and drug use in American Midwestern cities, 1890–19200
Beyond formal and informal: mid-twentieth-century residential architecture in Barcelona’s El Carmel neighbourhood0
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
Urban internationalism: Coventry, Kiel, reconstruction and the role of cities in British–German reconciliation, 1945–19490
International zones in global urban history0
Rain and the colonial streetscape: reading for water in Freetown’s newspaper archive0
East Germany and the lost German East: Dresden–Wrocław ‘socialist friendship’ after Nazism and forced migration0
Before the port city: coastal settlements and colonialism in Borneo0
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
Making manifestos for urban history: creative collaboration in a conference workshop0
Urban space, power and people through the optic of cemeteries in late medieval Cairo and Paris0
Housing inequality and social segregation in Leiden, 1561–16060
Parker Daly Everett, Urban Transformations: From Liberalism to Corporatism 1871–1933. Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, 2019. 392pp. $92.00 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
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
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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
‘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
List of books reviewed0
Emergence of an aero-city: path dependency and ‘internal’ dimensions in BEY/Beirut from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries0
Novel, popular, fashionable and partisan: making coffeehouses ‘burgherly’ spaces in early modern Hamburg0
Sunlight and free markets: an urban political ecological perspective on social housing in Victorian London (1850–1914)0
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
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
In search of the bourgeoisie: Bob Morris and the urban history of class0
R.J. Morris: An Appreciation – Introduction to Special Section0
Ben Wilson, Metropolis. A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention. New York: Vintage, 2021. 442pp. 30 plates. £10.99 pbk.0
Technologies of territory: Baker’s Australian County Atlas and the architecture of property0
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
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
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
Recovering the past for the future: Racibórz after World War II0
Visions of public and private mobility: the Kowloon railway terminus in Hong Kong0
Fragmented cosmopolitanism in the southern borderlands: the socio-environmental histories of New Orleans and Odessa0
Introduction0
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The legal position of guests in late medieval Stockholm0
An invitation to a party? Staging urban proximity and the colonial public in nineteenth-century Batavia0
Princely urbanism and the colonial city: Bombay, c. 1860–1940s0
Bibliography of urban history 20240
Indoor public spaces and the mobility of religious knowledge in late medieval Deventer and Amiens0
Lauren Pikó, Milton Keynes in British Culture: Imagining England. Routledge: Abingdon, 2019. 230pp. 15 figures. £120.00 hbk. £36.99 pbk. £36.99 eBook.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
List of books reviewed0
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
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
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Enfolding empire into 1930s London: the India Round Table Conference0
Princely cities in South Asia, c. 1850–1950: themes and perspectives0
The facade of power and the power of the facade: memory and meaning in Victorian cities0
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
Boundary making in the formative years of Tel Aviv Township, 1920–19230
Lawful naming and toponymic resistance: the contested authority of the 1893 Dorpat-to-Iur′ev renaming law0
Twinning across the Adriatic: history, memory and municipal co-operation between Italy and Yugoslavia during the Cold War0
Going to the cinema: princely urbanism in Hyderabad and Secunderabad0
UHY volume 50 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
Richard Kirkland, Irish London: A Cultural History 1850–1916. London: Bloomsbury, 2022. 223pp. 10 illustrations. £90.00 hbk. £28.99 pbk.0
List of books reviewed0
Bibliography of urban history 20230
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
To be had for a Pesthouse for the use of this parish’: plague pesthouses in early Stuart London, c. 1600–16500
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
Making urban memory visible: the on-screen transformation of Beijing’s hutong districts during modernization (1940s–2010s)0
The value of names: toponymic commercialization in late nineteenth-century Kyiv0
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
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
The roots of inequality: California agriculture and the seeding of Silicon Valley’s technology economy, 1935–19650
Index of towns0
List of books reviewed0
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
‘To his utter undoing in this world’: maintaining, contesting and crossing Hanseatic legal boundaries in medieval London and Bruges0
Indexing Negro main streets: Black business directories and the development of urban spaces0
Geography of lust: spatial patterns of illicit sex in eighteenth-century Stockholm0
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
Politics in the street: the materiality of urban public spaces in Renaissance Italy0
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
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
Egalitarian greetings: the social spread of the handshake in urbanizing Britain, 1700–18500
Bob Morris: an appreciation0
Review of periodical articles0
Bells and whistles: listening between the lines in sixteenth-century Exeter0
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
Post-18000
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