This article reviews recent literature using insights from history to answer central questions in urban economics. area of research has seen rapid growth the past decade, thanks new technologies that have made available increasingly rich data stretching far back time. The focus is review innovative methods exploit historical information and discuss applications these provide into (i) long run c...

The paper traces the emergence of urban environmental history first in the United States and since the 1990s increasingly also in Europe. It identifies the development of large technical networks which provide cities with water and energy and which serve to take problematic substances and waste out of urban areas as a central theme of this new subfield where scholars from urban history, environ...

urban form has undergone tremendous changes throughout history. these changes have stemmed from various causes. technology has been one of the most influential forces in changing the face of cities, leaving different marks on the city form. in fact, technology has gained an increasingly more important and integrative role in bringing changes to the urban form. in addition, recent plethora of de...