Comparative Studies of the Segmental Socio-Spatial Structures in Traditional Cities, 1500-1900

本研究项目旨在提供对16世纪至19世纪日本、法国、英国、中国和印度传统城市历史特征的比较理解，并进一步促进跨国学者或研究人员之间城市历史方法的全球交流。为了实现这些目标，我们重点研究了江户、巴黎、伦敦等城市社会凝聚力的基本因素和机制，并研究导致大规模城市化的“社会空间结构”。我们也尝试搜集主要与传统城市的社会和空间特征有关的历史文献，并将我们的努力成果提供给学术界。

This research project aims to provide a comparative understanding of historical characteristics of traditional cities in Japan, France, England, China and India between the 16th and 19th centuries, and to further promote global exchange of the urban historical methodology among multi-national scholars or researchers. In order to implement these objectives, we focus on the basic factors and mechanism of social cohesion in cities such as Edo, Paris, London etc., and examine their'socio-spatial structure' which resulted the massive scale of urbanization. We also try to collect historical documents principally related to the social and spatial characteristics of traditional cities and make the results of our efforts commonly available to the academic world.