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From Chicago's smoke detectives to today: "Unlike in around 1900 and 1950, it seems that now, in the second decade of the twenty-first-century—a period of economic recession and right-wing mobilization against ‘climate madness’ and net zero policies—driving bans and smoke-free zones are a hard sell to the electorate." Pt. 3 of my series on 'Sensing Anthropogenic Weather Conditions':
https://ghil.hypotheses.org/4617
#History #Historians #ClimateChange #UrbanHistory #Pollution
In an 1886 map of newly platted Washburn Park, real estate agents H.E. Ladd & Co. marketed the development as a retreat:
“No city in the country of the size and importance of Minneapolis is as destitute of fine suburbs; places where the men of business can get away from the noise of the city and the inconvenience of small lots and crowded neighborhoods,” the map’s accompanying text reads.
https://www.startribune.com/tangletown-minneapolis-grid-minnesota-history-washburn-park/601337633?utm_source=gift
VINTAGE POSTCARD Attelage Lyon Places Bellecour Voiture goats Chevre TOP
#VintagePostcard #Attelage #Lyon #PlaceBellecour #GoatCarriage #Chevre #FrenchHistory #HistoricTransport #AnimalDrawn #VintageLyon #UrbanHistory #TraditionalTransport #GoatPower
VINTAGE POSTCARD Attelage Lyon Places Bellecour Voiture goats Chevre TOP www.cpaphil.com/en/p... #VintagePostcard #Attelage #Lyon #PlaceBellecour #GoatCarriage #Chevre #FrenchHistory #HistoricTransport #AnimalDrawn #VintageLyon #UrbanHistory #TraditionalTransport #GoatPower
"He delivered," said Barefoot. "He would always look for a yes, a way to get something done, and in a bureaucracy, that's a wonderful thing." https://dailyprogress.com/news/local/government-politics/article_aef84cd4-f203-11ef-baee-4f751f21de8f.html #Cville #UrbanHistory #WarOnCars
📕 Já saiu mais um livro da Imprensa de História Contemporânea: "O futuro de São Paulo na década de 1950", de Bruno Zorek.
O livro conta a história do desgarçamento de São Paulo, analisando como e por que essas (e outras) representações ganhavam ou perdiam força na sociedade paulistana de meados do século XX.
🔓 Pode ser lido e descarregado em #AcessoAberto: https://imprensa.ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/zorekb2024/
#Histodons #OpenAccess #SãoPaulo #BrazilianHistory #UrbanHistory #Brazil #Brasil #HistóriaDoBrasil #HistóriaUrbana
Two new Cambridge Elements on #UrbanHistory, both free to download and read until 27th February 2025:
The City Beautiful and the Globalization of Urban Planning by Ian Morley:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/city-beautiful-and-the-globalization-of-urban-planning/A7894D4F936FAC95AA3C106C6845A3FC
Africa in Urban History by Ambe J. Njoh:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/africa-in-urban-history/FD89751FF00B283CDE98D5B6529FC5FF
𝟯 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: “𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗚𝗼𝗱 𝗧𝗿𝗶𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆” 𝗯𝘆 𝗪𝗶𝗹 𝗘𝗶𝘀𝗻𝗲𝗿 -
Eisner's historical moment in creating the first adult "graphic novel" is not merely pioneering but ambitious and nearly fully realized.
#bookreviews #books #bookworm #readreadread #3words #wileisner #thecontractwithgod #acontractwithgod #alifeforce #dropsieavenue #graphicnovel #poverty #classwarfare #history #urbanhistory #immigration #racism
“Denver’s most known commercial corridors — Tennyson Street, South Pearl, South Broadway, Colfax and more — are destinations today because of that urban planning effort 100 years ago.
So there’s a little irony here …that the old rail has been exposed by an effort to improve transit in the city.”
#Transit #BusRapidTransit #BRT #Streetcars #Denver #Colorado #UrbanPlanning #Cities #UrbanHistory #History
https://denverite.com/2025/01/06/colfaxs-streetcar-tracks-brt-construction/
Slow Burn Lahore Ends: Manan Ahmed Asif on the publication of "Disrupted City: Walking the Pathways of Memory and History in Lahore"
https://www.chapatimystery.com/archives/slow_burn_lahore_ends.html
#Pakistan #History #SouthAsia #HistoricalMemory #UrbanHistory
Lovely, evocative, thoughtful #urbanhistory #sanfrancisco #sfbayarea https://missionlocal.org/2024/10/a-requiem-the-ghosts-from-40-years-of-walking-san-francisco/
New Medieval BooksL Frankish Jerusalem: The Transformation of a Medieval City in the Latin East, by Anna Gutgarts https://www.medievalists.net/2024/10/new-medieval-books-frankish-jerusalem/ #books #CrusaderStudies #Jerusalem #UrbanHistory
Not any old rubbish: Edinburgh’s Mound was built to order from rubble, pipes and oyster shells https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/oct/13/edinburgh-mound-excavation-recycling-centre-scotland #Edinburgh #OldTown #NewTown #TownPlanning #UrbanHistory #Scotland #ScottishHistory #HistoricalGeography #18thCentury #19thCentury #EighteenthCentury #NineteenthCentury #Archaeology
The mill was finally demolished in the 1870s, but the weir was left to help control the water flow on the Kelvin. It's no longer functional and is now little more than a ruin.
#glasgow #glasgowhistory #riverkelvin #kelvingrove #urbanhistory
The remains of the Clayslaps Mill weir on the River Kelvin behind the Kelvingrove Art Gallery in the West End of Glasgow. Known as the New Mill of Partick, it was established in the early 1500s. At different times, it was used for processing flour, flint, lint, malt and snuff and was powered by three undershot water wheels mounted in this weir.
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#glasgow #glasgowhistory #riverkelvin #kelvingrove #urbanhistory
Discover the quirky and artistic playgrounds of the Soviet era—where imagination met concrete!
👇 https://enemyofaverage.com/soviet-playgrounds-playful-landscapes-of-the-former-ussr/
#SovietArchitecture #PlaygroundDesign #UrbanHistory #EnemyOfAverage
