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ASSOCIAZIONE ITALIANA di STORIA URBANA (AISU)

The AISU born between September 2000 and May 2001, between a first meeting to be held in Berlin on the edge of the European Congress of urban history and the Constituent Assembly that it approved the Rome Statute. At the time of foundation, the group intended to follow the path of incorporation already made by other national organizations and wanted to play at the same time in our country the system of European conferences which were held every two years and with broad participation of international scholars. Imagining a series of themed conferences, organized every two years in different locations, it was intended to provide maximum possible openness of contributors, through the mechanism of the "call for papers" and with the indispensable help of the computer network. The biennial conference should then undertake a full and balanced representation of the different components of different disciplines and geographical areas. The impetus to the initiative had come from a group of researchers, scholars and academics formed mainly by economic historians and historians of architecture, in previous years, is one that others had found a precise reference point in activity in the study center for contemporary and modern Rome (CROMA) directed by Carlo Travaglini