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Rain and the colonial streetscape: reading for water in Freetown’s newspaper archive Urban History Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Milo Gough
Situated on the tip of a mountainous peninsula jutting out into the Atlantic Ocean off the west coast of Africa, the city of Freetown, Sierra Leone, receives an extraordinarily high rainfall, heavily concentrated in the few months of the rainy season. Working from this extreme wetness and inspired by recent work in the oceanic humanities, this article reads Freetown’s colonial era newspaper archive
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Smugglers and innkeepers: physical and social mobility in early modern Gemona (fifteenth to seventeenth centuries) Urban History Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Alessandro Di Bari
This article examines the mechanics of Niederlech (a law that obliged merchants travelling between Germany and Italy to spend the night in the city, change wagons and pay a small sum of money) and German–Italian mobility in early modern Gemona. It argues that the fragility of Venetian institutions and a lack of German–Italian border controls set the scene for criminal activities, especially contraband
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The impact of the British Civil Wars on the meanings and uses of the urban topography of Colchester in the long nineteenth century Urban History Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Michael Sewell
Although many towns repaired, restored or destroyed the ruins of Civil War sieges, there are a number of towns, villages and hamlets which still clearly bear marks of the conflict. By focusing on Colchester, this article will highlight how sites affected by the wars remained and survived in the local consciousness throughout the following centuries. This article traces the uses of such sites in the
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From writing to record-keeping: a study of York’s civic administrative literacy, 1272–1307 Urban History Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Jinming Yi
Using York during the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries as a case-study, this article discusses a pivotal aspect of the development of civic administrative literacy: the inception of record-keeping. Previous historians have failed to note the evident advancement in York’s civic administrative literacy during the late thirteenth century, and they have usually dated the earliest surviving
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Paternalism, petitions and the politics of church construction in Alsace, c. 1850–1885 Urban History Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Will Clement
This article builds on recent works which challenge the dichotomy between religion and modern urban planning. The article focuses on a case-study in the Alsatian city of Mulhouse during the nineteenth century. Over a period of 30 years, Catholic parishioners and clergy repeatedly petitioned the town’s Calvinist industrial and municipal elite for a church to be built in the paternalist cités ouvrières
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Lodging houses as facilitators of global and local entanglements in harbour districts: evidence from the port of Antwerp c. 1860–1910 Urban History Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Jasper Segerink, Kristof Loockx
The late nineteenth-century harbour districts, or so-called ‘sailortowns’, are generally depicted as deterritorialized ‘enclaves’ of heightened globalized transience. However, these neighbourhoods were just as much shaped by semi-durable local labouring communities. This article studies lodging houses as facilitators of global and local entanglements in harbour districts from a socio-cultural perspective
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Beyond formal and informal: mid-twentieth-century residential architecture in Barcelona’s El Carmel neighbourhood Urban History Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Kathrin Golda-Pongratz, Florian Urban
This article discusses houses on the periphery of Barcelona and in particular in the El Carmel neighbourhood, which were built by poor country-to-city migrants from southern Spain in the post-World War II period. They were constructed following two typologies: barracas (sheds), one-storey huts on an irregular street plan, and coreas (‘Korea houses’), more formally looking one- to three-storey structures
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The Ford Foundation and the Community Facilities Program in Chile: a proposal between local needs and foreign technical assistance (1964–1969) Urban History Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Alejandra Monti, Ursula Exss
Between 1964 and 1969, the Ford Foundation developed the Community Facilities Program in Chile, which articulated technical and financial assistance in the field of architecture and the training of local experts, in addition to its action in the renovation of state structures related to housing and urban planning. In this context, the design strategy introduced innovations based on architectural research
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Introduction: the material culture of public space in early modern Europe Urban History Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Fabrizio Nevola
This special issue draws on new research conducted by the PUblic REnaissance: Urban Cultures of Public Space between Early Modern Europe and the Present project, funded by the Humanities in the European Research Area (see: www.hiddencities.eu). The project considers how public spaces, from street corners to major city squares, were shaped by the everyday activities of ordinary city dwellers between
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From flesh to paper: bodily and material transformation in seventeenth-century Copenhagen – a case-study Urban History Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Peter W. Hansen, Jesper Jakobsen, Ulrik Langen, Rikke Simonsen
This article investigates the transformation of the body of a female child murderer as she passed through specific spatial configurations in the urban setting of the seventeenth-century capital of Denmark–Norway. By using the case of Gertrud Nielsdatter, we explore the significance of public urban spaces in the bodily and material transformation of a woman from a condemned sinner to an object of scientific
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Indoor public spaces and the mobility of religious knowledge in late medieval Deventer and Amiens Urban History Pub Date : 2023-11-17 Sabrina Corbellini, Margriet Hoogvliet
This article will address the transfer of religious knowledge in two north-western European cities from a spatial perspective. Our starting point will be the thesis that immobile knowledge in closed places of knowledge (lieux de savoir) does not exist: (religious) knowledge only becomes functional in the dynamic encounter with users and it is disseminated through social networks. This approach, which
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Bells and whistles: listening between the lines in sixteenth-century Exeter Urban History Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Kate Osborne
In an attempt to counteract the silence of Exeter’s late sixteenth-century cartographic representation and to explore further the idea of urban social relations expressed in auditory terms, this article investigates the issues involved in the ringing of Exeter’s civic bells, some of which may reflect a fractious relationship between two sources of authority within the city walls. It sets out some of
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Politics in the street: the materiality of urban public spaces in Renaissance Italy Urban History Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Massimo Rospocher, Enrico Valseriati
In Renaissance Italy, the political power of authorities found one of its expressions in material symbols of sovereignty. The placing of inscriptions, sculptures and columns and the commissioning of frescoes in streets, piazzas and public spaces, for example, were essential ways of communicating political or spiritual authority to the populace. Sometimes perceived as representations of a top-down form
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Letters of challenge: displayed writing, urban public space and honour culture in seventeenth-century Madrid Urban History Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Blanca Llanes Parra
Focusing on seventeenth-century Madrid, this article explores the interplay between urban public space and a specific type of written defamatory statements, the carteles de desafío or letters of challenge, with the aim of examining the implications of this interaction. Letters of challenge were primarily conceived as a communication tool between the participants in duels and challenges. Displayed in
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‘A firm foundation for future understanding, respect and friendship’: the ideals and reality of post-war town twinning, 1945–2020 Urban History Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Tosh Warwick
Formalized in the 1970s through the Middlesbrough–Oberhausen Town Twinning partnership (Partnerschaft Oberhausen–Middlesbrough), the connection between the two post-industrial towns dates back further to informal connections in the early 1950s and an age of reconciliation between the two nations. This article explores the origins, mechanisms, benefits and challenges of town twinning by drawing upon
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Waterworks, municipal government and the environment in twentieth-century Britain Urban History Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Andrew McTominey
From the nineteenth century onwards, municipal authorities vested increasing amounts of power in experts, those who could provide specialist knowledge on areas outside the remit of local councillors. This, though, was attached with risk, as municipal resources could be wasted. This article takes the example of the Ure Valley waterworks project, a scheme developed by Leeds Corporation at the start of
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The establishment of the police office in mid-eighteenth-century Altona: new opportunities for privacy in transitional times? Urban History Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Johannes Ljungberg, Jesper Jakobsen
This article demonstrates how the introduction of a police office in mid-eighteenth-century Altona, a free town in the Holy Roman Empire as well as the Danish monarchy, catalysed practices and arguments in favour of privacy. By examination of police logs and correspondence from Altona to Copenhagen between 1759 and 1766, which included reports of conflicts over the implementation of the police instruction
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Twinned cities: reconciliation and reconstruction in Europe after 1945 – an introduction Urban History Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Christoph Laucht, Tom Allbeson
While town twinning has played a crucial role in reconciliation and reconstruction processes in Europe after World War II, urban historians have not yet paid sufficient attention to it. This special issue thus addresses this historiographical neglect through a set of case-studies that examine the role of twinned cities in post-war reconciliation and reconstruction between former enemy nations and across
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Ambiguities of urban détente: East German town twinning and the struggle with globalization in the 1960s Urban History Pub Date : 2023-09-19 Christian Rau
This article provides a fresh perspective on the history of East German town twinning in the early era of détente. While previous studies have analysed East German town twinning solely as an instrument of the Socialist Unity Party (Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands, SED) to establish paradiplomatic relations in Western Europe, I explore the dynamic inter-relation between global, national and
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From post-war reconciliation to European integration? Competing historicities of ‘exchange’ in European small-town twinning Urban History Pub Date : 2023-09-19 Andreas Langenohl
Town twinning is often seen as a linear driving force of European integration. This article argues that town twinning’s historicity is more complex. The initial post-war period, according to today’s practitioners’ accounts, was characterized by a high degree of personal involvement which transformed into an exposure to relationship uncertainty. By way of contrast, twinning practices since the 1990s
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Navigating electricity dependencies in Cold War Berlin: an instructive history of urban infrastructure security Urban History Pub Date : 2023-09-19 Timothy Moss
This article explores how political division manifested itself in the electricity systems of West and East Berlin and analyses the strategies of both throughout the 40 years of the Cold War. It reveals how the goal of full energy independence propagated by both West and East proved illusory for material, geopolitical, institutional, economic and environmental reasons. Apart from vestiges of past interdependence
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Urban internationalism: Coventry, Kiel, reconstruction and the role of cities in British–German reconciliation, 1945–1949 Urban History Pub Date : 2023-09-19 Christoph Laucht, Tom Allbeson
This article addresses the beginnings of the twinning relationship between Coventry and Kiel to introduce and exemplify the idea of ‘urban internationalism’ as a new lens onto urban histories of town twinning initiatives and a contribution to the historiography of British town twinning. Focusing on paradiplomatic initiatives by municipal officials, religious dignitaries and other citizens in Coventry
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Public services and the urban middling sort: the provision of water in Bristol, Chester and Ipswich, 1540–1640 Urban History Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Mabel Winter
This article examines the relationship between public services and the urban middling sort in provincial England from 1550 to 1640 through comparative case-studies of the finance and management of waterworks, the creation of new skilled roles and the cultural import of water systems in Bristol, Chester and Ipswich. It argues that the middling sort were vital in establishing public services and that
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There’s no time like the present: path-dependent urban growth, agglomeration economies and congestion externalities in contemporary Athens Urban History Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Michele Postigliola, Luca Salvati
Despite a long settlement history, empirical investigations of the role of path dependency in the long-term evolution of human populations are scarce in Europe, and especially in the Mediterranean countries. Using spatially explicit econometric techniques, our study discusses the empirical evidence stemming from a quantitative analysis of the spatial distribution of population growth rates in 115 districts
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‘Dance is a disease for us’: dancing through the night as a threat to moral order in urbanizing Estonia Urban History Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Karin Leivategija
This article explores social dancing as the setting for moral struggles related to the urban night. Based on analysis of Estonian-language newspapers, I look at the historical context and expressed viewpoints linked with nocturnal public dance events in Estonian cities from 1880 to 1940. The established moral order was endangered by those staying out dancing late into the night. In the context of the
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Industrial housing clusters in nineteenth-century Lisbon: finding spatial patterns Urban History Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Gonçalo Antunes
This article aims to analyse housing solutions used in nineteenth-century Lisbon to deal with explosive demographic and urban development. It particularly focuses on two specific types of industrial housing ensembles created in Lisbon called pátios and vilas operárias. The goal of this article is to analyse the spatial distribution of pátios and vilas operárias in Lisbon. Through the potential of geographic
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Artisans’ chase for urban space. Clusters of construction entrepreneurs in Brussels, c. 1830–1930 Urban History Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Matthijs Degraeve, Heidi Deneweth, Stephanie Van de Voorde
In contrast to the well-studied shopkeepers, little empirical evidence exists on the locational patterns of artisans in transforming urban spaces. By GIS mapping a dataset on Brussels construction entrepreneurs (c. 1830–1930), long-term changes in their patterns of spatial clustering and dispersal become clear, showing which urban areas provided advantageous conditions for artisans to thrive, but also
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The cost of living in early modern cities: a study on eighteenth-century northern Italy Urban History Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Luca Mocarelli, Giulio Ongaro, Laura Prosperi
This study estimates the cost of living in three cities – Florence, Bologna and Milan – in eighteenth-century northern Italy. Although they do not allow an understanding of the differences between social groups or seasonal consumption patterns, the calculation of living costs and the implied modelling have a twofold aim. First, they allow the calculation of real wages, which are obtained by dividing
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‘Differences within a range of similarity’: mapping Australian urban history Urban History Pub Date : 2023-07-27 James Lesh
In 1964, Australian writer Donald Horne observed that ‘whatever differences there are between the Australian cities are differences within a range of similarity’. He proposed that Australia had 11 major cities and yet, in general, there existed a singular national urban culture, a one-city Australia. Unpacking the story of Australian urban history, its national trends and local nuances, has been an
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The plans for Tokyo Bay: the challenge of urban policy, 1950s–1990s Urban History Pub Date : 2023-05-19 Junichi Hasegawa
At the conclusion of the 1950s in Japan, plans to reclaim and develop Tokyo Bay were proposed by the Japan Housing Corporation's president and a private think tank on economic affairs. The vision was incompatible with dispersion, the basic direction of the state's policy, so it was quickly rejected, but its legacy lived on as the trans-Tokyo Bay highway in 1997. This article argues that the lack of
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Homicide in early modern Bologna: a prepositional cartography Urban History Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Colin Rose
In early modern violence, location mattered, and where something took place communicated much to early modern urban residents about the people involved, the significance of the act and the likely judicial repercussions for their communities. This article uses GIS to trace the locations of homicides in early modern Bologna, Italy, with a ‘prepositional cartography’ that translates early modern Italian
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Industrial energy consumption in the urban Low Countries: Ghent and Leiden compared (c. 1650–1850) Urban History Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Wout Saelens
This article presents a comparative study of the industrial energy consumption in Ghent and Leiden, from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. It asks whether or not industrial development depended on the availability of coal. Whereas the Southern Low Countries had recourse to cheap coal from the beginning of the eighteenth century onwards, the Northern Low Countries remained trapped in its ‘proto-fossil’
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Fine lines: locating commercial sex work in official data, Dublin 1901 and 1911 Urban History Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Ciara Breathnach, Rachel Murphy
Dublin at the turn of the nineteenth century had limited permanent employment opportunities compared to Belfast, and for poor families financial instability manifested in limited life expectancy. This article focuses on young adult cohorts in Dublin city. By cross-referencing names and addresses from death records with census, court and prison records, it casts new light on the lives of the city's
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Assembling urban worlds: always-becoming urban in and through Bir al-Saba’ Urban History Pub Date : 2023-02-03 Mansour Nasasra, Bruce E. Stanley
The ordinary city of Bir al-Saba’, situated within an urban world stretched across southern Palestine, has a story to tell, of dramatic spatiotemporal transformations, presence and absence, capture and resilience. Such connected urban history is profoundly shaped through the world-making relations of those who lived and dwelt within the always-becoming material and ideational spatial geography of the
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Bruges as a multilingual contact zone: book production and multilingual literary networks in fifteenth-century Bruges Urban History Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Lisa Demets
Medieval Bruges was an important international economic hub in the late Middle Ages. Similar to other luxury goods, manuscripts produced in Bruges were intended for both local and international audiences. This article scrutinizes the specific urban context of Bruges as a multilingual contact zone focusing on quantitative data of extant manuscripts and case-studies of professional and non-professional
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Carnival and urban space in Athens, 1834–1940 Urban History Pub Date : 2023-01-30 Nikos Potamianos
This article explores the spatial dimensions of Athens' carnival and their change in the course of a century. It is based on two polarities: first, that of the old city and the new city, which was related to the contrast between traditional and modern culture in the celebration of carnival. Both the old city and traditional culture were increasingly undervalued and denounced until the inter-war years
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Captured with malicious intent? The opportunities and limits of debt imprisonment in late medieval Bruges Urban History Pub Date : 2023-01-04 Niels Fieremans
Debt imprisonment was one of the tools a creditor had to enforce a debt. When creditors believed that their debtors were defaulting, they could imprison debtors to ensure they would not disappear and debts would be settled. As a practice, debt imprisonment was never fundamentally challenged in the Middle Ages though the way it was executed did come under scrutiny. In the city of Bruges, the city magistrate
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Papal and municipal authority in the city: house-destruction as a legal punishment in Renaissance Rome Urban History Pub Date : 2022-12-19 Nele De Raedt
This article focuses on house-destruction as a legal punishment, as prescribed and practised in Rome over the course of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. It argues that the reintroduction of the punishment by Pope Paul II (r. 1464–71), and its application by Pope Sixtus IV (r. 1471–84), should be read against contemporary papal attempts to increase their political and legal authority in the city
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Princely urbanism and the colonial city: Bombay, c. 1860–1940s Urban History Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Kate Boehme
To this point, nineteenth-century Bombay – including its urban development, economy and population – has most often been analysed in relation to the city's position within British imperial, and overseas maritime, networks. In contrast, this article calls into question established scholarly definitions of ‘colonial’ and ‘princely’ spaces in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century India, through an in-depth
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Beyond colonial urbanism: state power, global connections and fragmented land regimes in twentieth-century Hyderabad city Urban History Pub Date : 2022-12-09 Eric Lewis Beverley
Urban histories of modern South Asia have centred on British Indian cities and the reign of colonial urbanism, with dependence on metropolitan imperatives and models regarded as givens. Focusing on Hyderabad, one of the subcontinent's five largest cities and capital of an autonomous princely state throughout the colonial era, this article establishes the analytical utility of princely urbanism as a
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‘Monarchical modern’: the making of Mysore city, 1880–1940 Urban History Pub Date : 2022-11-22 Janaki Nair
The unique status of the city of Mysore arose from the fact that it was divested of all administrative functions save that of the Palace establishment. Principles of city planning were innovatively pursued, through a combination of sovereign authority and diverse forces, techniques and devices more properly associated with ‘governmentality’. It was among the first cities in India to have a City Improvement
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Sovereign dreams and bureaucratic strategies in princely Jaipur, c. 1750–1950 Urban History Pub Date : 2022-11-11 Garima Dhabhai
This article focuses on Jaipur city, capital of the Kachhawa Rajput state of Jaipur in the Rajputana region of north-western India (present-day Rajasthan). It seeks to braid the narrative of modernity in Jaipur with the tripartite networks of capital, knowledge and infrastructure that were contemporaneous to different phases of the city's transformation. Through a genealogical analysis of Jaipur's
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Doors, privacy and the public sphere: a conceptual discussion on the spatial structure of early modern Istanbul Urban History Pub Date : 2022-11-02 Serkan Şavk
The aim of this article is to offer a new conceptual framework for the study of various spaces in Istanbul during the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries. I contend that rather than the sharp distinction manifested with the public–private dichotomy, we need to focus on gradations of privacy. I offer qāpū and bāb as two new concepts borrowed from the period's own repertoire for representing the
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‘To be had for a Pesthouse for the use of this parish’: plague pesthouses in early Stuart London, c. 1600–1650 Urban History Pub Date : 2022-11-02 Aaron Columbus
The use of the pesthouse in early modern England has received limited attention by scholars, in particular, how it was used in London. The study of the pesthouse tells us about the nature of parochial government in the capital, the early development of public health policies and the relationship between national and civic authorities and the suburban parishes, where plague was a long-term problem and
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Going to the cinema: princely urbanism in Hyderabad and Secunderabad Urban History Pub Date : 2022-10-03 C. Yamini Krishna
The experience of the urban in nineteenth-century Hyderabad was interwoven with the experience of modern technologies like film. Cinema participated in constituting a modern public; practices of film viewing were practices of enacting the modern. Through a study of conflicts in the space of cinema, this article examines the politics of constituting and controlling the urban in the princely city of
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‘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 century Urban History Pub Date : 2022-09-30 Benjamin B. Cohen
The ability to capture, store and distribute water safely is fundamental to the health of urban and rural settlements alike. This is true for Hyderabad city, located in India's semi-arid Deccan region. I argue that an exegesis of the nineteenth-century conservation plans for Hyderabad's large, built water reservoir, Hussain Sagar, reveal multiple hydrosocial processes at work: class structures related
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Novel, popular, fashionable and partisan: making coffeehouses ‘burgherly’ spaces in early modern Hamburg Urban History Pub Date : 2022-09-05 Gabrielle Robilliard
This article examines the nature of sociability, communication and the ‘practical public sphere’ of Hamburg's early coffeehouses (1677–1714) and provides insight into the ‘social life’ of these coffeehouse spaces during the ‘early’ Enlightenment. Using licensing records, administrative sources and supplications, it shows how novelty, popularity, political partisanship and fashionability were characteristic
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Urban space, power and people through the optic of cemeteries in late medieval Cairo and Paris Urban History Pub Date : 2022-08-18 Caitlin John
This article argues that a micro-historical and comparative analysis of urban burial spaces can provide fresh insight into cities. Two late medieval cemeteries are considered here: the Qarāfa in Cairo and Saints-Innocents in Paris. Despite the former being geographically peripheral and the latter central, both these relatively large cemeteries were integral to their respective urban spheres. Beyond
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Ritualizing citizenship in fifteenth-century Barcelona Urban History Pub Date : 2022-08-08 Carolina Obradors-Suazo
This article analyses the ritualistic aspects of medieval citizenship through the example of fifteenth-century Barcelona. The unique citizenship sources of Barcelona allow for a detailed study of the negotiations between urban dwellers and their institutions in the making of citizens. Accordingly, the article examines how the witnesses of citizenship candidates and municipal authorities framed these
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Sīyaḍoṇi: an unplanned town of the Gurjara-Pratīhāra times Urban History Pub Date : 2022-07-08 Aman Mishra
Between the sixth and the tenth century, India passed through a new phase of urbanization. This has been identified as the third urbanization in India, setting it apart from two earlier phases. The focus of historical investigations for this period has generally been on capital cities and royal centres, or centres of pilgrimage. Port cities have also received some attention. There are no exclusive
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Sociological approaches and the urban history of medieval England: research trends and new perspectives (2017–2022) Urban History Pub Date : 2022-07-05 Rachael C. Harkes
In 2011, when Jelle Haemers looked back on a decade's worth of Ph.D. theses on urban centres in the medieval Low Countries, he identified three main trends in scholarship: the emphasis on individuals, rather than institutions; the increasing use of new methodologies, such as social network analysis (SNA) and prosopography; and the deployment of inter-disciplinary perspectives. Haemers’ intuition proved
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The economic space of cities: an analysis of leather tanners in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Rome Urban History Pub Date : 2022-07-01 Keti Lelo, Giuseppe Stemperini
The aim of this article is to examine the use of suitable archive sources for the study of the economic space of cities in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The research is based on the integration and critical analysis of cartographic, descriptive and quantitative sources of an administrative and fiscal nature, developed by using Geographic Information Systems. The advantage of adopting this
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Hands over the city: the Mafia, L'Ora and the sack of Palermo Urban History Pub Date : 2022-06-16 Ciro Dovizio
The article is a critical investigation of the role played by the Palermo left-wing newspaper L'Ora in uncovering the Sicilian Mafia's urban affairs and property speculation during the sack of Palermo in the 1960s. It pays particular attention to L'Ora's complex narrative concerning the urban Mafia and the many obstacles that the newspaper encountered in its attempt to defend the city. The article
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The facade of power and the power of the facade: memory and meaning in Victorian cities Urban History Pub Date : 2022-06-10 Richard Rodger
Terraces and tenements provide the facades upon which are inscribed texts and decorative images. Embedded in the walls, these ‘plaques’ convey meanings and memories that saturate the built environment with references to the past. Evidence based on property surveys, maps and archival documents form the empirical basis from which it is concluded that images and inscriptions presented a wider geo-political
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Stonehouse: Scotland's last new town, c. 1967–1977 Urban History Pub Date : 2022-05-17 Alistair Fair
This article examines the proposals for Stonehouse, designated as the sixth Scottish new town in 1972 but abandoned in 1976. Several themes emerge, with lessons for the wider urban and political histories of 1970s Britain. First, the evolving plans demonstrate the ‘malleability’ of the post-war ‘new town idea’, conceptually and organizationally. Second, cancellation was the consequence of short-term
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Boundary making in the formative years of Tel Aviv Township, 1920–1923 Urban History Pub Date : 2022-05-05 Arnon Golan
Boundaries are defined and maintained to establish and preserve cultural, societal and political integrity. Boundaries change as territorial structures and their related meanings change over time, reflecting the transformation of economic, political, administrative and cultural practices and discourses, and inherent relations of power. The Israeli metropolis of Tel Aviv is no different in this context
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Moving ‘out’ to be ‘in’: the suburbanization of London Jewry, 1900–1939 Urban History Pub Date : 2022-04-19 Hannah Ewence
Between 1900 and 1939, Jewish Londoners departed the East End for the suburbs. Relocation, however, was not always the result of individual agency. Many Jews became the object of institutional strategies to coerce and persuade them to disperse away from inner-city areas. Simultaneous to this was the emergence of a dominant pro-suburban rhetoric within and beyond Jewish cultural circles, which aimed
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AIDS and the city: bathhouses, emplaced empathy and the de-sexualization of San Francisco Urban History Pub Date : 2022-04-13 Stathis G. Yeros
This article traces territorial and discursive shifts in the landscape of homosexuality in San Francisco during the AIDS pandemic. I argue that a ‘de-sexualization’ of the urban landscape occurred, which I trace in debates about bathhouse closures (1983–85) and in the analysis of ARC/AIDS Vigil, a downtown activist encampment (1985–95). I trace ‘de-sexualization’ in the development of divergent forms
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