What is Urban History?

Reducere. The time seems ripe for the greening of cities: green roofs and walls, planted pavements, shared or therapeutic gardens... Is the city discovering ...

Reducere. Immediately upon publication in 1998, the Encyclopedia of Country Music became a much-loved reference source, prized for the wealth of information ...

Acclaimed architect David Adjaye is known for his artistic sensitivity and deft use of space and inexpensive, unexpected materials. With the hindsi...

Reducere. Mists of Akuma is an eastern fantasy noir steampunk campaign setting for use with the newest edition of the world's most popular tabletop roleplayi...

The illustrated history of a seminal New York neighborhood--a story of birth, decline, and renewal, of high design, of grit and glamour--a tale of ...

Reducere. What a time! Philadelphia from the Roaring 20s to the boom years of the 1950s and 60s, when cash was king and there were always sharpies and racket...

The First Socialist Society is the compelling and often tragic history of what Soviet citizens have lived through from 1917 to the present, told wi...

Named for a goddess, epicenter of the first democracy, birthplace of tragic and comic theatre, locus of the major philosophical schools, artistical...

This remarkable volume introduces to the large English-speaking audience what is probably the most coherent segment of twentieth-century American l...

Reducere. In this book, you'll learn about the history of Black people. I don't mean the history you learned in school, which most likely began with slavery ...

From weekend homes to get-away cabins in the mountains, by the sea, or in the woods, this architecture embodies our longing for lounging in nature....

DescriptionHow photography and a modernizing Berlin informed an urban image--and one another--in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries ...

DescriptionAgainst a backdrop of growing cities and a changing approach to how we live, there are many reasons to refurbish a home. Our buildings m...

Reducere. "You expect the city of Al Capone and what you find are pleasant boulevards coursing up and down between the neo-classical buildings of the 1893 Un...

DescriptionCitizenship is at the heart of our contemporary world but it is a particular vision of national citizenship forged in the French Revolut...

Rosemary Wakeman's original survey text comprehensively explores modern European urban history from 1815 to the present day. It provides a journey ...

Reducere. In this field guide to the future, esteemed Harvard University botanist Peter Del Tredici unveils the plants that will become even more dominant in...

Bicycling advocates envision a future in which bikes are a widespread daily form of transportation. While many global cities are seeing the number ...

Reducere. While Savannah's famous urban plan is rightly renowned in many studies of urban history, what brings streams of tourists and architects to the city...

Reducere. Experience the Primal Spiritual Path of Ancient Egypt The spiritual traditions of Ancient Egypt are well documented and are at the forefront of the...

Reducere. After Ross Benes left Nebraska for New York, he witnessed his polite home state become synonymous with "Trump country." Long dismissed as "flyover"...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jonathan Riley-SmithFocusing on the inner workings of the First Crusade in a way that no other work has done, The First Cru...

Acclaimed author Francesco Dimitri and award-winning artist Mario Alberti tell a story of extraordinary people who are brought together to uncover ...

The Jamaican writer and cultural theorist Sylvia Wynter is best known for her diverse writings that pull together insights from theories in history...

Reducere. Although it has been called "Little Hungary" or "Little Budapest, " Cleveland's Buckeye Road neighborhood exceeds that description. A more apt moni...

Reducere. In the early 1950s, Pruitt-Igoe, a vast public housing project, arose on 57 acres on the near north side of St. Louis. Barely 20 years after constr...

Reducere. When you're in West Portal and the adjacent Forest Hill and St. Francis Wood, it's hard to believe you're still in San Francisco. These quiet and p...

Reducere. One of the phrases that has been used to describe Chicago's Southeast Side is "smokestacks and steeples." The community initially developed because...

Reducere. What is paradise? Before 1969, land that would eventually become the City of Palm Coast was considered by some as nothing more than a "big pine-cov...

Reducere. Southwest Washington, D.C., is a defined neighborhood even without a proper name; the quadrant has a clear border southwest of the U.S. Capitol Bui...

Reducere. In 1903, successful candy maker Milton Hershey began a new enterprise that many people thought was doomed. He planned to build the biggest chocolat...

Reducere. For Italian city builders more than a thousand years ago, the urban realm was the great theater where their best aspirations were played out, the p...

DescriptionThe Act of Living explores the relation between development and marginality in Ethiopia, one of the fastest growing economies in Africa....

In 1904, Assiniboine Park was conceived as a people's playground, a place devoid of commercial amusements where all classes of Winnipeggers could r...

Waikiki, literally "spouting water, " is the name of what was once a lush wetland area where three mountain streams met the Pacific Ocean. Under th...

From its origins as a primitive Dutch outpost to the sprawling urban complex it is today, the defining characteristic of New York has been constant...

Reducere. What does a real life Mafia enforcer actually do on a day-to-day basis? Born in the Life illustrates the profound treachery which Gene Borrello liv...

An indispensable, intimate, and stylish celebration. "Gay Bar is an absolute tour de force." (Maggie Nelson) "Beautiful...Atherton Lin has a five-o...

Reducere. We know racism is entrenched in our systems and institutions, but what about our cities and public spaces?In The Diaspora of Belonging, author Jay ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Supreme UnderstandingIn this book, you'll learn about the history of Black people. I don't mean the history you learned in ...

Urban history is a well-established and flourishing field of historical research. Written by a leading scholar, this short introduction demonstrate...

Reducere. London Falling by Paul Cornell is an urban fantasy twist on the classic police procedural: London cops versus magical creatures of nightPolice offi...

Reducere. In Walkscapes Francesco Careri explores the act of walking, taking a deeper look at three important moments of passage in art history-all absolutel...

DescriptionOriginally published in 1899, The Philadelphia Negro is a sociological study of the blacks living in Philadelphia in 1896-7. DuBois was ...

Reducere. As human populations inhabiting cities have grown dramatically, we have lost the ability to understand and even to see the natural world around us....

Reducere. DescriptionThe Queen of the Coast. The World's Playground. The Casino Capital of the East. They can only describe Atlantic City, New Jersey. Belove...

Reducere. An ode to paths and the journeys we take through nature, as told by a gifted writer who stopped driving and rediscovered the joys of traveling by f...

Reducere. What became our nation's first capital, Philadelphia is a city full of history that is vital to the development of the United States of America. It...

Reducere. When Yvonna decides to take revenge on the organization which sold her into sexual slavery, resulting in a lifelong battle with a mental illness, s...

Reducere. Hip Hop Truth for the Art and Pulse of America This cultural brilliance of sound presented a voice and mindset detailing life growing up in the str...

African-Americans have long confronted the challenge of dignity destruction caused by white supremacy. While many have found meaning and restoratio...

Reducere. This book is about finding what is notable, historical, quizzical and beautiful in this great city while walking. It is about learning and using pe...

DescriptionThe first guide to urban birding in the UK, from The Urban Birder himself, David LindoUrban birding is fast becoming ornithology's new r...

DescriptionSpace: it's everywhere, all around, a given. It's abstract and yet not abstract at all, because it governs all human relations, shapes t...

The south is known for the beautiful plantations sitting on the front porch talking to family and friends while drinking a tall cold glass of tea. ...

Reducere. The Book of Bizarre Truths is a 708-page collection of answers to hundreds of provocative questions covering a vast range of topics. The book s wri...

Reducere. An enthralling world history of food from prehistoric times to the present. A favorite of gastronomes and history buffs alike, Food in History is p...

Reducere. In the highly acclaimed The Geography of Nowhere, James Howard Kunstler declared suburbia "a tragic landscape" and fueled a fierce debate over how ...

Reducere. In the late fall of 1095 Pope Urban II gave a speech in Clermont, France and set all of Europe into motion. As many as a hundred and fifty thousand...

Reducere. How did the city of St. Paul come to be where and what it is, and what does that show us about the city today? In eight place-based chapters, Bill ...

Reducere. DescriptionRock 'n Roll is the first music to span generations. What youth enjoyed in the '20s was ignored in the '30s. Music from the '30s was ign...

DescriptionDIVERGENT meets OCEAN'S EIGHT in this urban fantasy heist On my seventeenth birthday, I wake up in the hospital to find I just survived ...

Reducere. Hip Hop Truth for the Art and Pulse of America This cultural brilliance of sound presented a voice and mindset detailing life growing up in the str...

Reducere. Beautifully written and deeply researched, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Phi...

Stray Poems opens with San Francisco Poet Laureate Alejandro Murguia's inaugural address, where he provides a brilliant and impassioned poetic acco...

Reducere. Every morning, the architect and writer Michael Sorkin walks downtown from his Greenwich Village apartment through Washington Square to his Tribeca...

Weave a little wonder into daily life with these fun and challenging activities - and experience your local area in a whole new way. Invite friends...

Reducere. Winner of the inaugural Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, North American Stadiums is an assured debut collection about grace--the places we search for it, an...

Choosing between Heaven and Hell isn't as easy as it seems, especially when angels hunt you down and demons save your sorry derrière. After ninetee...

Reducere. DescriptionWant to learn more about the state of Ohio? How much do you really know about the Buckeye State? There's so much to learn about the stat...