urban history

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• 3/29/2020
  

  Getting Medieval on COVID? The Risks of Periodizing Public Health

  by G. Geltner

  Pundits have described fighting the pandemic in terms of “medieval” or “modern” approaches. A historian of late medieval public health explains that dichotomy is a false one, and dangerous as well.

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  3/26/2020
  

  Babe Ruth's New York @ 100

  by Jonathan Goldman

  When Babe Ruth started hitting home runs, the US started to change.

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• SOURCE: Daily Beast
  3/25/2020
  

  ‘East Lake Meadows’ Reveals the Heartbreaking Reality of America’s Public-Housing Crisis

  The Ken Burns-produced PBS documentary “East Lake Meadows: A Public Housing Story” examines our public-housing nightmare through the lens of a storied Atlanta housing project.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  3/24/2020
  

  The Roots of Organizing: The Young Lords' Revolution

  by Ed Morales

  In her new book historian Johanna Fernández makes the case for the Young Lords' influence as profound thinkers as well as highly capable street activists.

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• 3/10/2020
  

  Cities

  Historians comment on urban issues.

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• SOURCE: New York Daily News
  2/29/2020
  

  Democratic Socialism All Around: What Bernie Sanders’s New York Can Teach Us about America’s Future

  by Joshua Freeman

  Mid-20th-century New York had serious flaws, including poverty, economic inequality (though not as bad as today), and racial and gender discrimination. But it stands as an example of what can be done when the power of government is combined with a capacious vision of human rights, equality, and democracy. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  1/27/20
  

  How Minneapolis made Prince

  by Rashad Shabazz

  The history of Minneapolis and why, simply put, Prince would not sound like Prince without Minneapolis.

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• 9/1/19
  

  A New History of Islamic Empires Defined Through Illustrious Cities

  by Erik Moshe

  "History constantly refreshes and reinvents itself and that is its abiding power. It has a built-in resistance to obsolescence."

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• 8/18/19
  

  Walkability Is at the Heart of Human Societies

  by Antonia Malchik

  We’ve forgotten about shared space, about public roads, and the fact that tens of thousands of years of human history demonstrates a profound need for the daily, in-person interactions walkability provides.

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• SOURCE: City Lab
  7/29/19
  

  What 'Infests' Baltimore? The Segregation History Buried in Trump's Tweets

  by Paige Glotzer

  In slamming Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings’s 7th District as “rodent infested,” Trump borrows from the rhetoric that first segregated the city.  

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• SOURCE: Time
  7/29/19
  

  After Trump's Tweets, Historian Paige Glotzer Explains How Segregation Has Shaped the City of Baltimore

  "The tweets said two things — that Baltimore was full of rodents, but also that no humans would want to live there. That’s untrue."

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• SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal
  July 16, 2019
  

  ‘Cities’ Review: The Metropolis and the Masses

  Did urban settlement spring from the hearts and minds of the people, or from elites’ strategies for increasing their own power?

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3/21/19
  

  Destroying Istanbul to 'Restore' It

  Many Istanbulites are concerned that the city’s plans for the future leave its storied past behind.

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• 1-27-14
  

  The Secret Behind Rob Ford's Amazing Popularity

  by Jay Young

  Toronto's drug-addled mayor could very well win re-election, due to his appeal to suburban Toronto voters.

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• "Cities are the Living Embodiments of Past Decisions"

  by Robin Lindley

   Children in wading pool at Cascade Playground, Seattle, 1939. All photos credit Seattle Museum of History and Industry.Stories about place are makeshift things. They are composed with the world’s debris.--Michel de CerteauIn most undergraduate history classes, students are required to take tests and write a paper or two.But University of Washington history professor Dr. Margaret O’Mara wanted to tap into her students’ curiosity and their relationship with the web and technology for her history of U.S. Cities course last winter.To bring urban history to life for her students and encourage them to explore and see their world in new ways, Dr. O’Mara created an innovative project that focused on Seattle’s dynamic South Lake Union neighborhood, now an area of high-tech businesses, medical clinics, trendy eateries, and pricey real estate.