Bibliographies of cities

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Historiography Local history Bibliographies of cities in the United States Urban studies

Municipal archives hold the paperwork of ordinary life: permits / licences / court records City bibliographies are strongest on capitals and thinnest on second-tier cities Gazetteers and city directories are the backbone of urban historical research Researching a non-Western city often means working in more than one language The urban studies canon is disputed: Jacobs and Mumford against the planners who ignore both How to trace a disappeared neighbourhood through census tracts and fire insurance maps Where to start reading about a single city: general histories vs planning reports vs the local archive Local history societies publish the sources no university press will take: parish registers and rate books Sanborn fire insurance maps let you reconstruct a city block by block A city bibliography dates fast: planning documents matter more than monographs for recent decades Photographic and map collections belong in a city bibliography alongside the printed books Urban monographs are read mostly by other academics: which ones crossed over and why Urban scholarship keeps citing the same five cities: what that does to the field

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