A BRIEF HISTORY OF URBAN
GEOGRAPHY
Urban geography is an established branch of geography
that attracts researchers and students in signiíìcant num
bers, and produces a large and expanding volumc of
published work to aid our understanding of the city. The
advance of urban geography to a central position within
the discipline has occurred over the past half-century.
As I Ierbcrt and Johnston (1978 p. 1) noted: