Urbanization in History: A Process of Dynamic Interactions

by Ad van der Woude (Editor), Akira Hayami (Editor), Jan de Vries (Editor)

These papers represent a series of important contributions on the history of urbanization. As well as offering a clear and instructive discussion of fundamental concepts, processes, and measurement problems, the introduction summarizes findings in the latest research and proposes new topics. The papers focus on four principal areas of contemporary research on urbanization: urban networks, town-country economic links, migration, and demographic patterns. New areas of analysis, such as the study of migration flows by age, gender, or social group, and the comparative east/west approach of several of these papers will serve to broaden the international scope of research and stimulate further work in this field.

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First published November 8, 1990

Reviews

[Vysloczil · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very good synthesis. Usually I expect a lot from the introduction of the editors to those edited volumes, it is good, but clearly does not reach the benchmark which is Tilly for me due to the broad and deep thoughts he always puts forward.
First two chapters more on methodology. Then agriculture, energy, transportation. Big chunk is on urban demography. Then some chapters on Asia.