Urban history

Urban history is the study of the history of urbanism. It looks into why and how cities developed. Urban history also studies the social, political, cultural and economic aspects of cities. Most urban historians focus on the larger or more important cities.Derek Keene, "Ideas of the metropolis," Historical Research (2011) 84#225 pp 379-398. There is much less attention to small cities, towns and suburbs. Urban history involves several other fields of study as they affect cities. These include archaeology, architecture, sociology, and the political and economic aspects of cities over time.Zeynep Celik and Diane Favro, 'Methods of Urban History', Journal of Architectural Education (1984–), Vol. 41, No. 3  (Spring, 1988), p. 4  

 Related pages 
 Journal of Planning History
 Danish Centre of Urban History
 International Planning History Society
 Society for American City and Regional Planning History

 Other websites 
 Gilbert A. Stelter, "Introduction to the Study of Urban History" (1996) 
 The Urban History Association 
 Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester, U.K. 
 Centre for Urban History, University of Antwerp, Belgium
 Center for Urban History of East Central Europe, Lviv, Ukraine

 References 

Category:History of urban planning
Category:Urban planning
Category:Urban geography