Tag Archives: Architecture

Urban Renewal and Displacement in Soviet (and Post-Soviet) Moscow

Posted on 28. September 2017 by Global Urban History

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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Princely Architectural Cosmopolitanism and Urbanity in Rampur

Posted on 3. August 2017 by Global Urban History

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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Analyzing the Palimpsestic Petroleumscape of Rotterdam

Posted on 28. September 2016 by Global Urban History

By Carola Hein, Delft University of Technology Petroleum – its extraction, refining, transformation, and consumption – has shaped our built environment in visible and invisible interconnected ways around the world over the last 150 years. Industrial structures, buildings, monuments, urban … Continue reading →

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Between a Wall and the Sea: A New Book on Colonial Havana

Posted on 19. July 2016 by Global Urban History

Guadalupe García, Beyond the Walled City: Colonial Exclusion in Havana, Oakland: University of California Press, 2016,  296 pp., $34.95, £24.95 ISBN: 9780520286047 Reviewed by Cecilia T. Fernández, Freie Universität Berlin Strolling through Havana’s so-called “casco histórico,” its colonial center, can … Continue reading →

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African Urban History and Global History – a Comment

Posted on 7. July 2016 by Global Urban History

Liora Bigon, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Reflecting on Africa’s urban past in the context of African history and as part of a global phenomenon is a challenging mission situated at the intersection of three subfields of research: African history, … Continue reading →

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Reflections on “Global Urban History” at the Second Global History Student Conference

Posted on 29. June 2016 by Global Urban History

Philipp Kandler, Freie Universität Berlin, and Thomas Lindner, Max Planck Institute for Human Development The global history of cities is en vogue at the moment. Increasing numbers of historians interested in global history turn to cities as spaces of connectedness … Continue reading →

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Claims of Modernity: The Building of the Ottoman Imperial Bank in Istanbul

Posted on 1. June 2016 by Global Urban History

Fabian Steininger, Max Planck Institute for Human Development In May 1892, the Ottoman state bank (Bank-ı Osmanī-i Şahane) moved into its newly built headquarters in the Voyvoda Caddesi in Istanbul’s Karaköy district. The bank had been founded almost twenty years … Continue reading →

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Detroit: Capital of the Automotive Age

Posted on 6. December 2015 by Global Urban History

Stefan Link, Dartmouth College In 1913, Detroit’s Ford Motor Company made history when it introduced moving assembly lines into car manufacturing. In 2013, the city of Detroit declared bankruptcy. A century ago, Detroit was a fast-growing metropolis, attracting immigrants from … Continue reading →

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Revolutionary Chic: Left-Wing Exiles, Design, and Urbanism in Mexico City

Posted on 3. December 2015 by Global Urban History

Randal Sheppard, Universität zu Köln Mexico City was one of the most important and culturally vibrant hubs of political exile in the Western Hemisphere during the twentieth century. However, the scholarly literature about this phenomenon has so far been limited … Continue reading →

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