cities: historical overviews
type: Concept
narrower: historic cities

concepts
type: Collection
type: ConceptGroup
member: historic cities

historic cities
type: Concept
broader: cities: historical overviews
definition: The historic city is a concept; a creation of the human imagination. The raw materials from which the imagination shapes it, however, may be, and usually are, composed of tangible physical structures, forms, and shapes as well as nontan-gible memories and associations with past events and personalities: all of which can be related to actual physical locations on the Earth's surface. [Source: Encyclopedia of Urban Studies; Historic Cities]