urban history

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• SOURCE: The Metropole
  8/2/2021
  

  Heather Ann Thompson and Joe William Trotter, Jr. on the Value of Urban History

  The Urban History Association's outgoing and incoming presidents discuss how the COVID pandemic and global protests, among other events in recent tumultuous years underscore the importance of urban historians' contributions to public discourse. 

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg CityLab
  7/28/2021
  

  What It Looks Like to Reconnect Black Communities Torn Apart by Highways

  An interactive feature shows the impact of highway building on Black communities throughout the urban United States, and prospects for reconnecting neighborhoods previously divided by asphalt. 

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• SOURCE: Phenomenal World
  7/12/2021
  

  Long Crises: Kim Phillips-Fein Interviews Benjamin Holtzman

  While New York's mayoral campaign has invoked the "bad old days" of the 1970s, the city today is still experiencing the political-economic crisis that erupted 50 years ago. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/12/2021
  

  Why did some Americans Seem to Hope COVID would Kill Cities?

  “Anti-urbanism is an American religion, practiced widely and frequently in ordinary times, and passionately when cities are actually in trouble,” wrote Eric Klinenberg, a sociologist at N.Y.U.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/7/2021
  

  Chicago Versus Lake Michigan

  The history of Chicago is defined by efforts to tame water for navigation, sanitation, and drinking. Climate change is raising the stakes of that battle. 

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• 7/11/2021
  

  The Girders of Steel City's History

  by Ed Simon

  The author of a new book on Pittsburgh considers the first written history of the city and reflects on what preceded and what might follow the steel era. 

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• SOURCE: KCET
  7/6/2021
  

  Before Downtown L.A.'s High Rises, Bunker Hill Was Simply Home

  "Today, the Victorian mansions of Bunker Hill are often remembered nostalgically, but the community was also a vibrant, walkable neighborhood in the middle of a bustling downtown."

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• SOURCE: NextCity
  6/29/2021
  

  How Atlanta’s Public Housing Created Space for Black Women to Organize

  City Planning Professor Akira Drake Rodriguez discusses her research on women's tenant organizing in public housing in Atlanta, which became more important as the city withdrew support for its low income housing program. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  6/24/2021
  

  The Unknown History of Black Uprisings

  by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

  Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor reviews Elizabeth Hinton's new "America on Fire" and explains how it shakes up established accounts of a "good" and "nonviolent" civil rights movement giving way to protest and violence.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  6/16/2021
  

  The Rise and Fall of an American Tech Giant

  Writer Kaitlyn Tiffany considers the impact of the Kodak company's product on American culture and the city of Rochester where she grew up, and the way that digital technology has changed both. 

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• SOURCE: The Metropole
  6/14/2021
  

  Hyper-Segregation, Inequality, And Murder Rates — A Review Of “The Ecology Of Homicide”

  by Menika Dirkson

  The late historian Eric Schneider uses criminal court records to argue that Philadelphia's violent crime rate is an ecological phenomenon, in which public policy decisions and private actions created conditions for spikes in violence. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/27/2021
  

  Can Removing Highways Fix America’s Cities?

  The infrastructure bill debate has prompted historical reflection on the urban consequences of highway construction and imagination of alternatives. 

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• SOURCE: Washingtonian
  6/3/2021
  

  This Map Shows How the New Deal Was a Big Deal for DC

  Historian Brent McKee presents a guide to sites around the greater Washington area that show how the New Deal transformed the region, from historic preservation to wastewater treatment. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  

  D.C. Police Recruits are Learning about Black History, Go-Go Music and Half-Smokes. Leaders Think it Will Make Them Better Officers

  DC leaders are concerned that new police recruits are disconnected from the history and culture of Black communities in the District. Will history lessons help? 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/21/2021
  

  Will We Ever Get Beyond "The Fire Next Time"?

  by Elizabeth Hinton

  "What we witnessed in 2020 was the latest manifestation of an ongoing crisis that could have been solved if elected officials had properly understood the root causes the first time around."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  5/27/2021
  

  The Housing Market is Booming but Remains Deeply Unequal

  by LaDale Winling

  The standards and practices of real estate appraisal were developed in the context of white supremacy in the 1920s and since then have worked to make home ownership a path toward building wealth that has favored white Americans. 

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• SOURCE: In These Times
  5/27/2021
  

  The Deep Downward Spiral of Police Violence and Rebellion, Explained

  by Hamilton Nolan

  A conversation with Elizabeth Hinton, author of “America On Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s.”

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• SOURCE: The Public's Radio
  5/25/2021
  

  In New Orleans, Documenting History Of Iconic Black Street

  Two New Orleans area activists, Raynard Sanders and documentary filmmaker Katherine Cecil, head the Claiborne Avenue History Project which aims to document and publicize the street's history. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  5/21/2021
  

  The New York Highway That Racism Built: ‘It Does Nothing But Pollute’

  A generation of urban highway projects that advanced urban renewal and community displacement in the 1950s and 1960s are nearing obsolescence. Activists hope that the Biden infrastructure plan can replace roads and repair neighborhoods. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/24/2021
  

  What The Tulsa Race Massacre Destroyed

  "Piecing together archival maps and photographs, with guidance from historians, The New York Times constructed a 3D model of the Greenwood neighborhood as it was before the destruction."