Abstract

It has often been noted that a person’s professional interests can spring from a personal partiality, and in so many ways that is my story. The sort of history I now write is more often motivated by the personal. And urban history led me down that road. But I would like to start by considering what might be called the ‘historiography’ of urban history and look at some significant mileposts.

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  • It has often been noted that a person’s professional interests can spring from a personal partiality, and in so many ways that is my story

  • It was at the end of the nineteenth century, in 1899, that the American sociologist, Adna F

  • In The Growth of Cities in the Nineteenth Century, pointed out something that seems so obvious, and certainly is obvious today: The most remarkable concentration, or rather centralisation, of population occurs in that newest product

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Introduction

It has often been noted that a person’s professional interests can spring from a personal partiality, and in so many ways that is my story. For a variety of reasons, we can say of the very idea of urban history, that by the early 1970s, in Australia – and certainly in Sydney - ‘its time had come’.

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