Abstract:
Since scholars differ in understanding of urban population identity in current studies of historical urban populations, we must do something to discriminate and analyze the space domains and population identities of historical cities. Generally, historical urban space domain consisted of three parts: interior of the city, outer city and peripheral areas. To testify the rationality of doubtful recorded data of urban population, the density of urban population has been introduced as a means that is much more objective and more reasonable than the best results by the urban population taking 5% of the regional population currently adopted by scholars. Those former analyses and understandings are not reliable only depending on the recorded number of people residing inside, outside and in the suburbs of the city.
