Sorry to have been slow to respond. I worked professionally in urban planning and remain deeply interested in it, but have also worked extensively on many US history articles, especially of the colonial era and 19th century. These are often related to or influenced by issues of urban development. I have worked to incorporate thinking about urban development into many history articles - for instance, in identifying how cities and towns well into the 19th century were generally developed primarily on rivers and other waters, as the main transportation networks until railroads and then improved highways supplanted them. Also, for contemporary roadways, I have changed wording so that content reflects that paths and roads have followed rivers, rather than that rivers "parallel such and such a road", as I have seen written more than once in these pages. I know what the editors meant, but it is up to us to provide the historical sense and show that development followed the rivers, not the other way around. Will also try to get more directly involved; have started working on a couple of articles related to St. Louis' Gateway Arch and Mall. Really need sources.Parkwells (talk) 23:40, 24 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
