Urban history

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  Año 2023, Vol. 50, Número 1

  • List of books reviewed

    • List of books reviewed

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  • Editorial

    • Rosemary Sweet

      Rosemary Sweet

      • Resumen
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      págs. 3-3

      

  • Research Article

    • An ancient debate on urban renewal and built heritage: Dio Chrysostom and the city of Prusa

      Christopher Siwicki

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      págs. 4-21

      

    • ‘On behalf of the city’: wax and urban diplomacy in the late medieval Baltic and North Sea

      Mark Whelan

      • Resumen
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      págs. 22-37

      

    • Regulating sense and space in late Renaissance Florence

      Julia Rombough

      • Resumen
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      págs. 38-57

      

    • Enclosures and de-sacralization in Tudor Coventry, and the foundations of modern urban space

      Donald Leech

      • Resumen
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      págs. 58-75

      

    • Empires’ city-building and the 1792 intervention of Aupaumut's book

      Barbara Eckstein

      • Resumen
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      págs. 76-97

      

    • Ottawa, 1857–1860: the making of Canada's capital city on the eve of Confederation

      Nari Shelekpayev

      • Resumen
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      págs. 98-114

      

    • ‘A very exclusive experiment in communism’: the radical origins of the Manhattan co-op

      Jack T. Masterson

      • Resumen
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      págs. 115-133

      

    • Revisiting the playground: Charles Wicksteed, play equipment and public spaces for children in early twentieth-century Britain

      Jon Winder

      • Resumen
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      págs. 134-151

      

    • Late-night noise hazards and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's countermeasures in the 1960s

      Junichi Hasegawa

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      págs. 152-168

      

  • Review of Books

    • Caroline M. Barron and Laura Wright (eds.), The London Jubilee Book, 1376–1387. An Edition of Trinity College Cambridge MS O.3.11, folios 133–157. London Record Society 55. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2021. 150pp. 5 tables. £40.00 hbk.

      CHRISTIAN D. LIDDY

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      págs. 169-170

      

    • Carsten Jahnke, Gott gebe, dass wir alle selig werden mögen. Die Mitgliederverzeichnisse der Heilig-Leichnams-, St. Antonius- und St. Leonhards-Bruderschaft zur Burg in Lübeck sowie das Bruderschaftsbuch der Heilig Leichnams- und St. Mauritiusbruderschaft der Weydelude zu St. Katharinen. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2022. 387pp. €55.00 hbk.

      Mark Whelan

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      págs. 170-172

      

    • Elizabeth A. New (ed.), Records of the Jesus Guild in St Paul's Cathedral, c. 1450–1550: An Edition of Oxford, Bodleian MS Tanner 221, and Associated Material. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2022. 311pp. 6 plates. £40.00 hbk.

      Rachael Harkes

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      págs. 172-174

      

    • Richard D. Wragg, The Guild Book of the Barbers and Surgeons of York (British Library, Egerton MS 2572): Study and Edition. Woodbridge: York Medieval Press in association with Boydell & Brewer, 2021. 382pp. 35 b/w images, 10 colour, 1 chart. Index. Bibliography. £75.00 hbk.

      Elizabeth L. Austin

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      págs. 174-176

      

    • Susana Zapke and Elisabeth Gruber (eds.), A Companion to Medieval Vienna. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2021. 611pp. 72 figures. Bibliography. €202.00 / $243.00 hbk.

      Anna Molnár

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      págs. 176-178

      

    • Geoffrey Tyack, The Making of Our Urban Landscape. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. xv + 367pp. 144 illustrations and maps. Further Reading. £25.00 hbk.

      Ann-Marie Akehurst

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      págs. 178-180

      

    • Juliana Adelman, Civilised by Beasts: Animals and Urban Change in Nineteenth-Century Dublin. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020. 248pp. 28 figures. £85.00 hbk. £14.99 pbk.

      Jessica Wang

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      págs. 180-182

      

    • Eloise Moss, Night Raiders: Burglary and the Making of Modern Urban Life in London, 1860–1968. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. 250pp. £27.99 hbk.

      Lizzie Seal

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      págs. 182-184

      

    • Michael Reeve, Bombardment, Public Safety and Resilience in English Coastal Communities during the First World War. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. viii + 390pp. 16 figures. 10 tables. Bibliography. £89.99 hbk.

      Adam Page

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      págs. 184-186

      

    • Parker Daly Everett, Urban Transformations: From Liberalism to Corporatism 1871–1933. Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, 2019. 392pp. $92.00 hbk.

      Katharina Borsi

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      págs. 186-188

      

    • John Garrard and Ekaterina Mikhailova (eds.), Twin Cities: Urban Communities, Borders and Relationships over Time. London: Routledge, 2019. xxiv + 334pp. £120.00 hbk. £36.99 pbk. £33.29 ebk. - John Garrard and Ekaterina Mikhailova (eds.), Twin Cities across Five Continents: Interactions and Tensions on Urban Borders. London: Routledge, 2022. xxii + 328pp. £120.00 hbk. £33.29 ebk.

      Evan R. Ward

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      págs. 188-192

      

    • John Davis, Waterloo Sunrise: London from the Sixties to Thatcher. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2022. x + 588pp. 83 plates. Bibliography. £30.00/$39.95 hbk.

      Matthew Bliss

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      págs. 192-194

      

    • Joseph Brady, Dublin from 1970 to 1990: The City Transformed. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2022. 456pp. 262 plates. 14 tables. Bibliography. £36.39 hbk. £26.25 pbk.

      Tom Spalding

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      págs. 194-196

      

    • Alistair Kefford, The Life and Death of the Shopping City. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 340pp. 40 figures. Bibliography. £90.00 hbk.

      Ellie Brown

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      págs. 196-197