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Routledge Advances in Urban History


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This series showcases original and exciting new work in urban history. It publishes books that challenge existing assumptions about the history of cities, apply new theoretical frames to the urban past and open up new avenues of historical enquiry. The scope of the series is global, and it covers all time periods from the ancient to the modern worlds.

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Politics of Urban Knowledge Historical Perspectives on the Shaping and Governing of Cities

Politics of Urban Knowledge: Historical Perspectives on the Shaping and Governing of Cities

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Bert De Munck, Jens Lachmund
March 23, 2023

This book uses 'politics of urban knowledge' as a lens to understand how professionals, administrations, scholars, and social movements have surveyed, evaluated and theorized the city, identified problems, and shaped and legitimized practical interventions in planning and administration. ...

Urban Emotions and the Making of the City Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Urban Emotions and the Making of the City: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Katie Barclay, Jade Riddle
January 09, 2023

This book brings together a vibrant interdisciplinary mix of scholars – from anthropology, architecture, art history, film studies, fine art, history, literature, linguistics and urban studies – to explore the role of emotions in the making and remaking of the city. By asking how urban boundaries ...

Water in the Making of a Socio-Natural Landscape Rome and Its Surroundings, 1870–1922

Water in the Making of a Socio-Natural Landscape: Rome and Its Surroundings, 1870–1922

1st Edition

By Salvatore Valenti
September 30, 2022

How would the history of an urban area look if water were at the center of analysis? Water in the Making of a Socio-Natural Landscape explores the transition from early modern to modern water management in late nineteenth-century Rome. It merges local water management with national water policies ...

Values in Cities Urban Heritage in Twentieth-Century Australia

Values in Cities: Urban Heritage in Twentieth-Century Australia

1st Edition

By James Lesh
September 23, 2022

Examining urban heritage in twentieth-century Australia, James Lesh reveals how evolving ideas of value and significance shaped cities and places. Over decades, a growing number of sites and areas were found to be valuable by communities and professionals. Places perceived to have value were often ...

Interurban Knowledge Exchange in Southern and Eastern Europe, 1870–1950

Interurban Knowledge Exchange in Southern and Eastern Europe, 1870–1950

1st Edition

Edited By Eszter Gantner, Heidi Hein-Kircher, Oliver Hochadel
August 01, 2022

Around 1900 cities in Southern and Eastern Europe were persistently labeled "backward" and "delayed." Allegedly, they had no alternative but to follow the role model of the metropolises, of London, Paris or Vienna. This edited volume fundamentally questions this assumption. It shows that cities as ...

Migrants and the Making of the Urban-Maritime World Agency and Mobility in Port Cities, c. 1570–1940

Migrants and the Making of the Urban-Maritime World: Agency and Mobility in Port Cities, c. 1570–1940

1st Edition

Edited By Christina Reimann, Martin Öhman
August 01, 2022

This volume explores the mutually transformative relations between migrants and port cities. Throughout the ages of sail and steam, port cities served as nodes of long-distance transmissions and exchanges. Commercial goods, people, animals, seeds, bacteria and viruses; technological and scientific ...

New Approaches to Governance and Rule in Urban Europe Since 1500

New Approaches to Governance and Rule in Urban Europe Since 1500

1st Edition

Edited By Simon Gunn, Tom Hulme
April 17, 2020

Urban power and politics are topics of abiding interest for students of the city. This exciting collection of essays explores how Europe’s cities have been governed across the last 500 years. Taken as a whole, it provides a unique historical overview of urban politics in early modern and modern ...

The Rise and Fall of London’s Ringways, 1943-1973

The Rise and Fall of London’s Ringways, 1943-1973

1st Edition

By Michael Dnes
November 04, 2019

Urban motorways are among the greatest – and least forgiven – legacies of post-war planning in Britain. Ringways explores the genesis, development and collapse of London’s controversial plans for nearly 500 miles of highways, to understand why such ambitious and unlamented programmes gained ...

The Materiality of Literary Narratives in Urban History

The Materiality of Literary Narratives in Urban History

1st Edition

Edited By Lieven Ameel, Jason Finch, Silja Laine, Richard Dennis
August 15, 2019

The Materiality of Literary Narratives in Urban History explores a variety of geographical and cultural contexts to examine what literary texts, grasped as material objects and reflections on urban materialities, have to offer for urban history. The contributing writers’ approach to literary ...

Urbanizing Nature Actors and Agency (Dis)Connecting Cities and Nature Since 1500

Urbanizing Nature: Actors and Agency (Dis)Connecting Cities and Nature Since 1500

1st Edition

Edited By Tim Soens, Dieter Schott, Michael Toyka-Seid, Bert De Munck
January 24, 2019

What do we mean when we say that cities have altered humanity’s interaction with nature? The more people are living in cities, the more nature is said to be "urbanizing": turned into a resource, mobilized over long distances, controlled, transformed and then striking back with a vengeance as "...

Cities, Railways, Modernities London, Paris, and the Nineteenth Century

Cities, Railways, Modernities: London, Paris, and the Nineteenth Century

1st Edition

By Carlos López Galviz
January 09, 2019

Cities, Railways, Modernities chronicles the transformation that London and Paris experienced during the nineteenth century through the lens of the London Underground and the Paris Métro. By highlighting the multiple ways in which the future of the two cities was imagined and the role that railways...

Migration Policies and Materialities of Identification in European Cities Papers and Gates, 1500-1930s

Migration Policies and Materialities of Identification in European Cities: Papers and Gates, 1500-1930s

1st Edition

Edited By Hilde Greefs, Anne Winter
October 09, 2018

This book focusses on the instruments, practices, and materialities produced by various authorities to monitor, regulate, and identify migrants in European cities from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Whereas research on migration regulation typically looks at local policies for the early ...

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