Articles
The City
History in Focus invited four academics to write short pieces on various aspects of the city from their own research perspectives. The resulting articles cover a broad range of issues, including an examination of the etymology and notions of cities in history, a discussion of the significance of cities as producers and consumers of culture, and an evaluation of the way in which historians have used the concept of modernity to explore recent changes in urban culture, economy and politics. We hope they will be of interest to historians and students of urban history.
Articles index
Urban modernity, networks and places
By Richard Dennis
Culture and the City
By John R. Gold and Margaret M. Gold
The changing nature of urban history
By Richard Rodger and Roey Sweet
Metropolitan comparisons: London as a city-state
By Derek Keene