Grinsell, Samuel;
(2025)
Urban history as urgent work, an argument for disciplinary promiscuity.
Urban History
pp. 1-10.
10.1017/s0963926825100333.
(In press).
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Abstract
This survey argues that urban historians should be engaging with the climate crisis as a driver of urgent research and the environmental humanities as a vibrant and growing gathering of different disciplines and approaches. This will enable urban historians to help address the most pressing issues of the twenty-first century. The survey identifies three areas in which urban-environmental historians might go further than existing work in the field: ambitious thinking; radical critique; and engagement with play or experimentation. Each of these is explored through existing scholarship, with reflections on the implications for the practice of urban history.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Urban history as urgent work, an argument for disciplinary promiscuity |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s0963926825100333 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1017/s0963926825100333 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0). |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Architecture |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10214841 |
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