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History and urban economics [PDF]
Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2020 Abstract This article reviews recent literature using insights from history to answer central questions in urban economics. This area of research has seenapid growth in the past decade, thanks to new technologies that have made available increasingly rich data stretching far back in time.
William Walker Hanlon, Stephan Heblich
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American Journal of Public Health, 2001 Over the course of the 20th century, the United States became an urban nation: 80% of Americans now live in metropolitan areas. Supplying basic sanitary services—drinking water, sewers, and garbage removal—to these cities is a gargantuan task, yet most people have little understanding of urban infrastructure systems and their enormous regional ...
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From urban space to urban history—an introduction
, 2020 While interest in urban space in the Roman world has boomed in recent decades, the debate has developed a strong emphasis on conceptual innovation, and this has limited the sensitivity of current discourse to historical change, so that debates about Roman urban space and Roman urban history have been developing without much interaction.
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The Pre-History of Urban Scaling
PLoS ONE, 2014 Cities are increasingly the fundamental socio-economic units of human societies worldwide, but we still lack a unified characterization of urbanization that captures the social processes realized by cities across time and space. This is especially important for understanding the role of cities in the history of human civilization and for determining ...
Scott G Ortman +3 more
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The borderland: Urban history and urban sociology [PDF]
Scandinavian Economic History Review, 1958 Abstract Two different theories of urban ecology have given rise to two contending sociological schools. One of them, the Chicago school, has a background of classical economics and Darwinistic biology. According to it, the value of land determines the social structure of the different parts of the town and this structure changes with land values.
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, 2022 Although occasionally referred to as such, urban history is arguably not a discipline in itself. It is more accurate to view it, as Jim Dyos did, as ‘a field of knowledge…in which many disciplines converge or at any rate are drawn upon’ to place towns and cities at the heart of historical analyses (Dyos, 1974: 5).
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Rome's urban history inferred from Pb-contaminated waters trapped in its ancient harbor basins. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2017 Delile H +5 more
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Urban, regional and natural history
New ContreeIn seeking to explain and not merely describe local history, it is necessary to look at the reasons for settlement in any region. This involves viewing regions as part of a larger system – local history must be explored in relation to processes operating on the urban, regional and national levels.
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A Brief History of (Urban) Grime
ACS Earth and Space ChemistrySurfaces exposed to outdoor and even indoor environments, especially in urban settings, develop a coating comprised of chemical compounds deposited from the overlying atmosphere and products of reactions occurring within this coating. Early work recognized the potential of this coating to reflect the local atmospheric concentrations of pollutants. More
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From social history to urban history
, 2002 * E.N.S. Lettres et sciences humaines (Lyon). (1) Une présentation orale de cet article a été faite le 31 mai 2001 lors de la journée d'hommage à Antoine Prost ; son caractère de libre réflexion a été conservé, et ne figurent pas la totalité des références académiques qui appuieraient la démonstration. (2) A. PROST, « Une histoire urgente.
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