全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): DP6833 From Baghdad to London: The Dynamics of Urban Growth in Europe and the Arab World, 800-1800

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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP6833
	DP6833 From Baghdad to London: The Dynamics of Urban Growth in Europe and the Arab World, 800-1800
	Jan Luiten van Zanden; Eltjo Buringh; Maarten Bosker
发表日期	2008-05-27
出版年	2008
语种	英语
摘要	On the basis of a large (new) dataset of cities in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East in the millennium between 800 and 1800, we try to provide an answer to the question why, during this millennium, the urban center of gravity moved from Iraq (or more generally the Arab world) to Western Europe and to the shores of the Atlantic (during the 17th and 18th century) in particular. We study the characteristics of the European and Arab urban systems involved, amongst others focusing on the interaction between cities, and explain why one system was much more dynamic in the long run than the other. Also we assess the importance of various geographical, religious and institutional factors as the driving forces of urban expansion. Overall, we provide a better understanding of the dynamics of urban growth in the centuries leading up to the Industrial Revolution and an answer to the question why London, an economic backwater in 800, was able to overtake Baghdad, in 800 the thriving capital of the Abbasid caliphate, as the largest city in this part of the world.
主题	Development Economics
关键词	Economic history Long term urban development Europe Arab world
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp6833
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/535670
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Jan Luiten van Zanden,Eltjo Buringh,Maarten Bosker. DP6833 From Baghdad to London: The Dynamics of Urban Growth in Europe and the Arab World, 800-1800. 2008.