Urban History 

About: Urban History is an academic journal published by Cambridge University Press. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Urban history & Politics. It has an ISSN identifier of 0963-9268. Over the lifetime, 1057 publications have been published receiving 9181 citations.

Current bibliography of urban history

Abstract: This bibliography is a continuation of and a complement to those published in the Urban History Yearbook 1974–91 and Urban History 1992–2002. The arrangement and format closely follows that of previous years. There is an index of towns on pp. 504–507. The list of abbreviations identifies only those periodicals from which articles cited this year have been taken.

Sounds of the city: the soundscape of early modern European towns

Abstract: In European towns of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the sounds people heard were very different from those of today. Yet the difference goes much deeper: whereas today we try to escape city noise, for the inhabitants of early modern towns sound served as a crucial source of information. It formed a semiotic system, conveying news, helping people to locate themselves in time and in space, and making them part of an ‘auditory community’. Sound helped to construct identity and to structure relationships. The evolution of this information system reflects changes in social and political organization and in attitudes towards time and urban space.