Tag Archives: Infrastructure

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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Some Reflections on Imperial Port Cities in the Age of Steam

Posted on 29. October 2016 by Global Urban History

Lasse Heerten, Freie Universität Berlin, and Daniel Tödt, Center for Metropolitan Studies, Technische Universität Berlin Let’s judge some books by their covers. In the recently flourishing literature on global and imperial history, port cities have become ubiquitous icons, visual shorthand … Continue reading →

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Mapping as Process: Food Access in Nineteenth-Century New York

Posted on 17. May 2016 by Global Urban History

Gergely Baics, Barnard College, Columbia University Geographic information system (GIS) has changed social science and humanities research through spatial analysis. It has reinvigorated the spatial turn, which has swept many fields in the past decades, improving their empirical foundations, methodological … Continue reading →

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Rush Hour in Ottoman Istanbul: Mechanized Transportation and the Emergence of Modern Temporal Patterns

Posted on 17. December 2015 by Global Urban History

Avner Wishnitzer, Tel Aviv University It is the morning rush hour in the Istanbul neighborhood of Eminönü. Another ferry is approaching the quay and even before it is tied to the platform, hordes of people alight and rush on to … Continue reading →

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