Writings on Danish Urban History

The Danish Centre for Urban History has made several publications about urban history in the three series of publications: Danish Urban Studies (Danske Bystudier), Writings on Danish Urban History (Skrifter om Dansk Byhistorie) and Digital Writings (Den digitale udgivelsesrække). Usually our books are published in Danish but often with English summaries, which can be seen by clicking on the titles below.

Writings on Danish Urban History

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Dragør i 1700-tallet (The Town of Dragør in the 18th Century)

Skrifter om dansk byhistorie 1 (Writings on Danish Urban History 1)

Birte Hjorth

Dragør Lokalarkiv and the Danish Centre for Urban History, 2005.

Købstadens metamorfose (Metamorphosis of the Town)

Skrifter om dansk byhistorie 2 (Writings on Danish Urban History 2)

Jens Toftgaard Jensen and Jeppe Norskov. Edited by Søren Bitsch Christensen

The Danish Centre for Urban History and Aarhus University Press, 2005.

Hvordan skriver vi historie for den moderne by 1945-2000 (How to write History of the Modern Town 1945-2000)

Skrifter om dansk byhistorie 3. Byplanhistoriske noter 55. (Writings on Danish Urban History 3. Notes on History of Urban Planning 55)

The Danish Centre for Urban History and The laboratory for History of Urban Planning, 2005.

Århus i verden (Aarhus in the World)

Fra bjerget til byen 2 (From the Mountain to the Town 2)

Skrifter om dansk byhistorie 4 (Writings on Danish Urban History 4)

Edited by Søren Bitsch Christensen og Nina Javette Koefoed

Aarhus University Press and The Faculty of Humanities at Aarhus University, 2006.

Byerne og den byhistoriske kartografi (The Cities and the Cartography of Urban History)

Skrifter om dansk byhistorie 5. Byplanhistoriske noter 60. (Writings on Danish Urban History 5. Notes on History of Urban Planning 60)

The Danish Centre for Urban History and The laboratory for History of Urban Planning, 2007.

Hvem opfandt parcelhuskvarteret? (The Invention of Suburbia)

Forstaden har en historie

Skrifter om dansk byhistorie 6 (Writings on Danish Urban History 6)

Peter Dragsbo

Museum Sønderjylland and The Danish Centre for Urban History, 2008.

Ribe Bys Historie 1 (The History of Ribe 1)

Skrifter om dansk byhistorie 7 (Writings on Danish Urban History 7)

Edited by Søren Bitsch Christensen

The Danish Centre for Urban History and Esbjerg Kommune, 2010

Ribe Bys Historie 2 (The History of Ribe 2)

Skrifter om dansk byhistorie 8 (Writings on Danish Urban History 8)

Edited by Søren Bitsch Christensen

The Danish Centre for Urban History and Esbjerg Kommune, 2010

Ribe Bys Historie 3 (The History of Ribe 3)

Skrifter om dansk byhistorie 9 (Writings on Danish Urban History 9)

Edited by Søren Bitsch Christensen

The Danish Centre for Urban History and Esbjerg Kommune, 2010

Industriminder i det gamle Århus (Industrial heritage sites of the old Aarhus)

Skrifter om dansk byhistorie 10 (Writings on Danish Urban History 10)

Kenn Tarbensen og Kristian Buhl Thomsen, the book is edited by Søren Bitsch Christensen

Dansk Center for Byhistorie og Århus Byhistoriske Fond, 2010.

Urbanisering og bysystemer i Europa indtil ca. 1800 (Urbanisation and Urban Systems in Europe until around 1800)

Skrifter om dansk byhistorie 11 (Writings on Danish Urban History 11)

Jørgen Mikkelsen

The Danish Centre for Urban History, 2012.