Tag Archives: Environment

Globalizing Urban Environmental History: Interview with Matthew Vitz

Posted on 25. November 2024 by globalurbanhistoryproject

To mark the publication of new contributions to our Cambridge Elements in Global Urban History series, we will feature interviews with authors and share short excerpts from their work. Here, GUHP Blog associate editor Maytal Mark interviews Matthew Vitz, the … Continue reading →

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The Archive Box #6: The Sources of Our Urban Planet

Posted on 24. June 2022 by Global Urban History

By Carl H. Nightingale*, University of Buffalo The Archive Box is a series featuring global urban historians reflecting on their archival experience, and on the practical and theoretical challenges they faced while working with a variety of archives across the … 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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Subaltern Cultures of Nature in Industrial Chicago

Posted on 14. November 2016 by Global Urban History

By Colin Fisher, University of San Diego U.S. environmental and cultural historians and American Studies scholars have long explored privileged Anglo Americans’ desire to come into contact with nature. We know that in response to the perceived ills of urban … Continue reading →

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What’s in a Grid? Finding the Form of Settler Colonialism in Melbourne

Posted on 11. February 2016 by Global Urban History

Nadia Rhook, La Trobe University In recent years Melburnians have been educated about an episode of Australian history previously little known in non-Indigenous circles. A play, Coranderrk: we will show the country, has been performed in theatres around Melbourne, and this … Continue reading →

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The “Spiritual Capital” of the Rust Belt: Pittsburgh and the Postindustrial Transformation of North Atlantic Cities

Posted on 1. February 2016 by Global Urban History

Tracy Neumann, Harvard University / Wayne State University In 1973, Daniel Bell’s The Coming of Post-Industrial Society hit bookshelves just as the golden age of postwar capitalism wound to an end. In it, Bell described post-industrial society as one in … Continue reading →

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Historicizing “Urbanity”: Buenos Aires in the epidemic years

Posted on 3. December 2015 by Global Urban History

Antonio Carbone, Freie Universität Berlin Scholars in the field of urban studies have been arguing for decades about what exactly the object of their research could be. At a first glance the ‘urban’ appears as a clearly defined field of … Continue reading →

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