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Author Archives: Global Urban History
The Next Step in Global Urban History
By Joseph Ben Prestel (Freie Universität Berlin), Michael Goebel (Graduate Institute Geneva), and Tracy Neumann, (Wayne State University). We launched the Global Urban History Blog in November 2015. Three and a half years later, we are pleased to announce a new project … Continue reading
Multireligiosity as a Rallying Call: The Petticoat Lane Street Market in the 1850s
By Ole Münch Today, urban street markets are often places where migrants from different origins meet and mingle. This was the case in the past as well. By the middle of the nineteenth century the East End of London already hosted … Continue reading
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Tagged Commodities, London, Religion, Street Life, Street Markets, Trade
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Exploring Intersections of Urban History and Global History: A Roundtable Discussion at EAUH 2018
By Bronwen Everill, University of Cambridge, Anindita Ghosh, University of Manchester, Ayala Levin, Northwestern University, Cyrus Schayegh, The Graduate Institute Geneva, Rosemary Wakeman, Fordham University, Carl Nightingale, University at Buffalo, and Joseph Ben Prestel, Freie Universität Berlin Carl Nightingale and … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, Atlantic World, Europe, Middle East, South Asia, Theory
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The City as a Palimpsest and Crucible of National Identity
By Alexander C. Diener, University of Kansas, and Joshua Hagen, Northern State University The tendency of successive regimes to rework commemorative landscapes speaks to the intrinsic and intricate linkages between place, memory, and identity. We affix memories and identities to urban space … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Central Asia, Commemoration, East Asia, Eastern Europe, Europe, Memorials, Memory, Monuments, North America, Spatial History
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An Unlikely Environmentalism: Mexico City’s Urban Ecological Thought in the Age of Development
By Matthew Vitz, University of California San Diego Considering Mexico City epitomized environmental catastrophe for much of the 1980s and 1990s, one would not expect it to have been a bastion of innovative urban ecological thinking during the middle of … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, Environment, Latin America, Mexico, Politics, Water
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Dakar, Senegal: Cosmopolitan Interwar City
By Kathleen Keller, Gustavus Adolphus College One of largest cities in West Africa, Dakar, Senegal sits at the western-most tip of the continent. Now home to a population of over two million people, Dakar of today is the capital of … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, Africa, Colonialism, Empire, France, Migration, Police, Politics, Surveillance
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Reading the City from the Streets
Kenda Mutongi. Matatu: A History of Popular Transportation in Nairobi. Chicago/London: The University of Chicago Press, 2017. 350 pp., US$ 30.00 (paper). Reviewed by Norman Aselmeyer, European University Institute In Nairobi, it is a hopeless task to guard oneself against … Continue reading
Development Encounters in Buenos Aires’ Affordable Housing, 1964-1973
By Leandro Benmergui, Purchase College-SUNY “To Enter into the Present” was the suggestive title of a 1971 booklet the Buenos Aires city government prepared for new residents of the Ciudad General Belgrano (CGB)—a housing complex of 3024 low-rise single-family homes intended … Continue reading
Chile, France, and the Construction of the Santiago Metro
By Andra Chastain The Metro in Santiago, Chile, has an unlikely history. It opened to the public in September 1975, two years after the violent overthrow of Salvador Allende’s socialist government, while the country was reeling from the human rights … Continue reading
Henri Lefebvre, Mao Zedong, and the Global Urban Concept
By Stuart Schrader Global urban history takes three primary forms. One is to direct the analytic gaze beyond Euro-America, to cities that were once “off the map” of urban studies. Another is to study the interconnections among far-flung cities. Extensive … Continue reading
