Category Archives: Allgemein

Of Bridgeheads and Breakwaters: The Making of a Special Issue

Posted on 3. October 2025 by Global Urban History

This article relates to a new special issue published in Urban History titled ‘Bridgeheads and Breakwaters: The Socio-Environmental History of Port Cities after the Global Turn’. The issue was edited by Michael Goebel, Christian Jones, Yorim Spoelder, and Xinge Zhai. … Continue reading →

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An Unlikely Environmentalism: Mexico City’s Urban Ecological Thought in the Age of Development

Posted on 11. September 2018 by Global Urban History

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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Dakar, Senegal: Cosmopolitan Interwar City

Posted on 24. August 2018 by Global Urban History

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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