A long-term historical perspective of urban growth in Europe and the US

Marcelo Medeiros (who is secretly my guru) pointed me out to two papers on a long-term historical perspective of urban growth, by Rafael González-Val. I imagine some readers of the blog might find them  useful  interesting.

• The Evolution of US City Size Distribution from a Long Term Perspective (1900-2000)
• Historical Urban Growth in Europe (1300 - 1800)

ps. The AAG was great with some really good thought provoking sessions. I'm still in the Bay area for two more days, visiting the team at Berkeley Urban Planning to talk about transportation and accessibility modelling using Pandana .