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Global Urban History is a recent field of history, which seeks to combine new approaches in global history with the local insight furnished by urban history. It is notably associated with a group of historians at Freie Universität Berlin, who founded a blog with the same name in the fall of 2015. In contrast to classic works that sought to write the urban history of the world, such as Lewis Mumford's The City in History or the many studies by German sociologist Max Weber, global urban history seeks to overcome the Eurocentrism implicit in much of urban history. If the blog is representative of the wider emerging subfield, its goal is to "treat cities as nerve centers of long-distance connections and engines of momentous historical developments," but also to "explore how they produced segmented, unequal, and unmixed cityscapes."
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