This Element offers seven propositions toward a theory of 'Our Urban Planet' that is useful to global urban historians. I argue that historians have much to off

Capitalist private property in land and buildings – real estate – is the ground of modern cities, materially, politically, and economically. It is foundatio

A panoramic study of our Urban Planet that takes readers on a six-continent, six-millennia tour of the world's cities.

With over half of the global human population living in urban regions, urban ecosystems may now represent the contemporary and future human environment. Consist

The urban century manifests itself at the peripheries. While the massive wave of present urbanization is often referred to as an 'urban revolution', most of thi