This first issue inaugurates the collaboration between the Italian Urban History Association (AISU International) and the journal “Urban History”.
It is the result of a collective work, developed in recent times through exchanges of ideas, meetings and gatherings between some members of the association's board, the journal's committee and the editorial coordination of FrancoAngeli.
There is no doubt, however, that the collaborative agreement stems from long-standing relations, strengthened by intersections between research, points of view and ways of looking at urban history that characterise both parties: suffice it to think of the common interdisciplinary approach promoted both by the journal, with its wide and consolidated circulation, and by the association through the activities it promotes. We cannot, therefore, but be happy to have reached this result.
Compared to the ordinary issues of the journal, this first issue should be understood as a zero issue, neither miscellaneous nor thematic, a collection of contributions ‘open’ to confirm common relations and objectives, including that of promoting, by identifying future perspectives, a broad reflection on the current directions of urban history in its most diverse declinations. In the wake of a rich tradition of these studies, we would like to give space in the future to themes and questions of a general and/or methodological nature, favouring in particular young voices.
AISU International Scientific Committee
Donatella Calabi (Università Iuav di Venezia), Giovanni Cristina (Università degli Studi Roma Tre), Andrea Maglio (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II), Massimiliano Savorra (Università degli Studi di Pavia), Elena Svalduz (Università degli Studi di Padova), Ines Tolic (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna)
Editorial collaboration Giorgia Ravaioli (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna)