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Dispatches from Fresno, 1918-19: Following the ‘Spanish’ Flu Pandemic in Real Time, Part VII

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The flu appeared to be losing its grip on the city, suggesting that Fresno’s strict social distancing measures were bearing fruit.

Ethan J. Kytle April 27, 2020 coronavirus, Dispatches from Fresno, Fresno, medical history, Urban History

Rethinking the Creative City with Julian Chambliss

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While working on Brain Magnet, I got the chance to sit down for a chat with Michigan State […]

Alex Sayf Cummings March 27, 2020 Brain Magnet, class, interviews, planning, podcasts, Policy history, Urban History, urban studies

Global Modernist Literature and Metropolitan Unreality

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Nikolai Gogol’s 1835 short story “Nevsky Prospect” opens with a paean to the vivacity of life on its titular street.

Benjamin J. Wilson January 16, 2020 fiction, literature, modernism, postcolonialism, urban studies

The Unbearable Whiteness of Paul Goldberger’s Ballpark

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Goldberger’s book unintentionally reveals that baseball is a representation of America — in its everyday realities of discrimination, exclusion, and inequality.

Seth S. Tannenbaum July 22, 2019 American Studies, baseball, cities, gender, race, segregation, sports

Georgia Avenue as Palimpsest: Uncovering the Multilayered Histories of One Street

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By adopting a fine-grained, street-level perspective, we can see how everyday individuals have helped to shape the history of our city, says historian Marni Davis.

Marni Davis May 20, 2019 Atlanta, cities, digital humanities, gentrification, Georgia, planning, public history, race

To Plan Future Cities, Look First to the Past

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What comes to mind when you hear the phrase “racial inequality in America?” For many, images of the […]

Eric Michael Rhodes November 13, 2018 book reviews, cities, planning, race, suburbanization, Urban History, urban studies

The Five Worst Cities in America

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Cities are “back,” as you might have heard, following a long period when urban America was viewed by fearful […]

Clement Lime September 12, 2016 Atlanta, Atlanta Beltline, Chicago, cities, gentrification, street art, suburbanization, subways, the South, Washington D.C.

Ciudad de Oro y Plata: Impressions of Mexico City

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I am not exactly the world’s most cosmopolitan traveler. I never got on a plane until I was […]

Alex Sayf Cummings December 3, 2015 architecture, cities, Mexico, radical politics, travel
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