Analyzing the Palimpsestic Petroleumscape of Rotterdam
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...
View ArticleSome Reflections on Imperial Port Cities in the Age of Steam
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...
View Article“The ‘Urban Question’ is Now at the Center of Intellectual Life”: A...
The Conversations section of our blog seeks to foster critical exchange about the theoretical and methodological implications of bringing together global and urban history. The blog’s editors will...
View ArticleConveying 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...
View ArticleComparing Transnational and Global Urban History
Nicolas Kenny and Rebecca Madgin, ed., Cities Beyond Borders: Comparative and Transnational Approaches to Urban History, Farnham, Ashgate, 2015. 262 pp., £75. Reviewed by Joseph Ben Prestel, Freie...
View ArticleThe Urban and the Powerful: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Global Urban...
Göran Therborn, Cities of Power: The Urban, The National, The Popular, The Global, London, Verso, 2017, 408 pp. $35/£20/$47 CAN. Reviewed by Gemma Masson, University of Birmingham The recent growth in...
View ArticleCairo, 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...
View ArticleBuilding Social Space in Marseille
By Minayo Nasiali, University of California, Los Angeles During the spring and summer of 2017, the Marseille city council approved a series of measures aimed at limiting the number of kebab shops in...
View ArticleThe City as a Palimpsest and Crucible of National Identity
By Alexander C. Diener, University of Kansas, and Joshua Hagen, Northern State University The tendency of successive regimes to rework commemorative landscapes speaks to the intrinsic and intricate...
View ArticleExploring Intersections of Urban History and Global History: A Roundtable...
By Bronwen Everill, University of Cambridge, Anindita Ghosh, University of Manchester, Ayala Levin, Northwestern University, Cyrus Schayegh, The Graduate Institute Geneva, Rosemary Wakeman, Fordham...
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