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Category Archives: Article
Making Cities Global
By A. K. Sandoval-Strausz This post was jointly commissioned by the Urban History Association (UHA) and the Global Urban History Project (GUHP), and will run simultaneously on the UHA’s official blog, The Metropole. Urban historians in the United States have increasingly been … Continue reading
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Urban Renewal and Displacement in Soviet (and Post-Soviet) Moscow
By Katherine Zubovich, Ryerson University On May 14, 2017, over ten thousand people joined together in Moscow, Russia, to protest the proposed demolition of entire blocks of Soviet-era apartment buildings. The buildings under threat are a distinct type: five-story prefabricated … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, Architecture, Housing, Russia, Soviet Union, Urban Planning, Urban Revitalization
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Cairo, Berlin, and the Compartments of Urban History
By Joseph Ben Prestel, Freie Universität Berlin Around 1900, contemporaries in Cairo and Berlin made remarkably similar arguments about the effects of urban change on city dwellers. A variety of actors from journalists and psychologists to police officers and city … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, Emotions, Entertainment, Europe, Middle East, Theory
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Brahmin Boston and the Politics of Interconnectedness
By Noam Maggor, Cornell University The first age of globalization between around 1870 and World War I created a strategic new role for cities, making them into pivotal sites for the worldwide movement of capital, goods, and labor. And yet, … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, Boston, Capitalism, City Politics, Finance, Gilded Age, Infrastructure, North America
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Princely Architectural Cosmopolitanism and Urbanity in Rampur
By Razak Khan, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen The colonial state in India often justified the continuation of princely states as a policy for the preservation of “traditional patterns” in the cultural sphere. While the “traditional” was seemingly preserved, it was also increasingly … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, Architecture, Art, Colonialism, Government, South Asia
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Cosmopolitanism on the Move: Port Said around 1900
By Valeska Huber, German Historical Institute London Research on the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean has stressed the importance of the opening of the Suez Canal as a transformative factor that had extensive reverberations throughout the region. In the decades … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, Cosmopolitanism, Ethnicity, Infrastructure, Middle East, Migration, Transport
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Immigration and Metropolitan Revitalization in the United States
By Domenic Vitiello, University of Pennsylvania, and Thomas J. Sugrue, New York University Recent refugee crises, xenophobic nationalism, and calls to deport unauthorized immigrants remind historians of earlier eras in which cities and nations have taken opposing stances on immigration. … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, Migration, North America, Public Policy, Urban Revitalization
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The Global Urban History Project
By Mariana Dantas, Ohio University, Michael Goebel, Freie Universität Berlin, Emma Hart, University of St. Andrews, Nancy Kwak, University of California, San Diego, Tracy Neumann, Wayne State University, Carl Nightingale, University at Buffalo, SUNY, and Joseph Ben Prestel, Freie Universität … Continue reading
Imagine Lagos: Mapping a Pre-Colonial West African City
By Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi, University of California, Riverside Africa’s cities are now among the fastest growing in the world. But how well are their pre-colonial origins understood? Recent research on Lagos’s past reveals a thriving, indigenous yet cosmopolitan urban community, one … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, Colonialism, Empire, Mapping, Slavery, Spatial History, Trade
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Conveying Urban History Through Apps: Berlin’s Kudamm ’31
By Viola Benz and Birgit Wienand, Freie Universität Berlin Recent years have seen an enormous growth of possibilities for historians to engage with a wider public beyond the academy. Urban history has benefited from these changes, particularly as cheaper airfare … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, Berlin, Digital History, Education, Europe, Germany, Nationalism, Public History
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