Academic Journal
Q1Urban History
About Urban History
Urban History is a scholarly journal published by Cambridge University Press. SCImago 2025 lists it in Q1, with an SJR of 0.338 and H-index of 31.
Coverage: 1974-2026. Research categories: History (Q1); Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (Q2); Urban Studies (Q2); Geography, Planning and Development (Q3).
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Topics in published research
Historical Economic and Social Studies; Scottish History and National Identity; Urbanization and City Planning; Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies; Financial Crisis of the 21st Century; Reformation and Early Modern Christianity.
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Reported open-access list prices
3,550.00 USD; 2,460.00 GBP
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Recent Research Articles
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Anna Gutgarts, Frankish Jerusalem: The Transformation of a Medieval City in the Latin East. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. xvii + 277 pp. 7 figures. 25 tables. £85 hbk; £29.99 pbk. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009418348
H. E. Crowley
2026-09-29 · DOI: 10.1017/s0963926826101163Michelle D. Brock, Plagues of the Heart: Crisis and Covenanting in a Seventeenth-century Scottish Town. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2024. vii + 205pp. Bibliography. £85 hbk.
Bob Harris
2026-09-29 · DOI: 10.1017/s0963926826101187Esther Liberman Cuenca, The Making of Urban Customary Law in Medieval and Reformation England. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. xvi + 262pp. 8 figures. 1 table. Bibliography. £99 hbk. £68.99 ebk.
James Davis
2026-09-29 · DOI: 10.1017/s0963926826101151Daniela Nunes Pereira, The Market Space in Portuguese Cities: Urbanism and Commercial Architecture, 15th–17th Centuries. Abingdon: Routledge, 2025. 346pp. 39 figures. £171.99 hbk; £47.99 pbk; £40.79 ebk.
Heleni Porfyriou
2026-09-29 · DOI: 10.1017/s0963926826101321Barbara Mundy, Leonardo López Luján and Elizabeth Hill Boone (eds.), Mexico-Tenochtitlan: Dynamism at the Center of the World. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2025. viii + 327 pp. 86 photographs. 100 illustrations. 8 tables. $85 hbk.
Camilla Townsend
2026-09-28 · DOI: 10.1017/s0963926826101205Katalin Szende, Erika Szívós and Boglárka Weisz (eds.), Cities and Economy in Europe: Markets and Trade on the Margins from the Middle Ages to the Present. London: Routledge, 2024. xix + 339 pp. 77 figures. £155 hbk, £41.99 pbk, £37.79 ebk.
Ágnes Flóra
2026-09-28 · DOI: 10.1017/s0963926826101242Richard Stone, Bristol and the Birth of the Atlantic Economy, 1500–1700. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2024. xv + 250pp. 50 figures. 20 tables. Bibliography. £80.00 hbk. £19.99 ebk. - Nicholas Rogers, Maritime Bristol in the Slave-Trade Era. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2024. xi + 249pp. Bibliography. £80.00 hbk.
Kenneth Morgan
2026-09-28 · DOI: 10.1017/s0963926826100790Governing an urban river: the Leen and the making of modern Nottingham, 1696–1973
David Beckingham, Rachel Dishington
2026-09-25 · DOI: 10.1017/s096392682610128xMarie A. Kelleher, The Hungry City: A Year in the Life of Medieval Barcelona. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. 270pp. £75.00 hbk.
Jesús Ángel Solórzano Telechea
2026-09-24 · DOI: 10.1017/s0963926826101199David Boyk, Provincial Metropolis: Intellectuals and the Hinterland in Colonial India . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. xvii + 313 pp. 9 figures. 3 maps. Bibliography. $120 hbk.
Jitendra Kumar
2026-09-24 · DOI: 10.1017/s0963926826101138Canal palaces and damp basements: capitalism, housing inequality and living standards in early modern Amsterdam
Bas Spliet
2026-09-24 · DOI: 10.1017/s0963926826101072Chinese villagers at the colonial urban periphery: improvement schemes, landed property and indigeneity in Hong Kong, c. 1890s–1930s
Alex Cheung
2026-09-23 · DOI: 10.1017/s0963926826101266Mattie Armstrong-Price, Respectability on the Line: Gender, Race, and Labor along British and Colonial Indian Railways. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2026. xi + 234pp. 8 figures. 1 table. Bibliography. £80.00/$95.00 hbk; £25/$29.95 pbk.
William Law
2026-09-15 · DOI: 10.1017/s0963926826101278Privatizing excrement: the management of organic waste and the cesspit companies in the late nineteenth-century Italian cities
Manuel Vaquero Piñeiro, Luciano Maffi, Omar Mazzotti
2026-09-15 · DOI: 10.1017/s0963926826101059Randall M. Packard, Fevered Cities: A History of Dengue Epidemics. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2025. 368pp. 12 b&w illustrations. 7 maps. Bibliography. Index. £31/$31.95 pbk.
Marianne Dhenin
2026-09-10 · DOI: 10.1017/s0963926826101217The Modern Woman and the household: hygiene, urban education and the YWCA in Hong Kong, 1921–41
Stella Meng Wang
2026-08-12 · DOI: 10.1017/s0963926826101023A window(box) to the soul: plants, privacy and urban display in nineteenth-century London
Naomi Yuval-Naeh
2026-08-12 · DOI: 10.1017/s0963926826101126What’s in a queue? Scarce resources and notions of entitlement to public housing in Novosibirsk during Khrushchev’s housing campaign
Ella Itkin
2026-07-07 · DOI: 10.1017/s0963926826101084Fair rent and the production of an early modern city (Turin, first half of the eighteenth century)
Nicoletta Rolla
2026-07-06 · DOI: 10.1017/s0963926826101060Dean Saitta, First Cities: Planning Lessons for the 21st Century. Cambridge Elements: Anthropological Archaeology in the 21st Century, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 92pp. 10 figures. 1 table. Bibliography. $22.00 pbk. DOI: 10.1017/9781009338769
Yi Samuel Chen
2026-06-17 · DOI: 10.1017/s0963926826100777Reviews
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