cities

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  11/16/2020
  

  Preexisting Conditions: What 2020 Reveals About Our Urban Future

  by Thomas J. Sugrue

  Crisis Cities is a public symposium on the 2020 crises and their impact on urban life, co-organized by Public Books and the NYU Cities Collaborative. 

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• SOURCE: Truthout
  9/22/2020
  

  Trump Fuels March Toward Fascism With “Anarchist Jurisdictions” Edict

  by Mark Bray

  The declaration is part of Trump's efforts to divide the nation into the loyal and disloyal.   

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• SOURCE: Citylab
  4/20/2020
  

  Is the City Itself the Problem?

  The ideology of “moral environmentalism,” as historian Alexander von Hoffman termed it, formed the foundation of U.S. urban planning and reform for decades by attributing urban problems to the urban environment rather than political and economic factors.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  4/19/2020
  

  America’s Biggest Cities Were Already Losing Their Allure: What Happens Next?

  The urge among some residents to leave because of the coronavirus may be temporary. But it follows a deeper, more powerful demographic trend.

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• 3/10/2020
  

  Cities

  Historians comment on urban issues.

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• SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal
  July 16, 2019
  

  ‘Cities’ Review: The Metropolis and the Masses

  Did urban settlement spring from the hearts and minds of the people, or from elites’ strategies for increasing their own power?

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• "Cities are the Living Embodiments of Past Decisions"

  by Robin Lindley

   Children in wading pool at Cascade Playground, Seattle, 1939. All photos credit Seattle Museum of History and Industry.Stories about place are makeshift things. They are composed with the world’s debris.--Michel de CerteauIn most undergraduate history classes, students are required to take tests and write a paper or two.But University of Washington history professor Dr. Margaret O’Mara wanted to tap into her students’ curiosity and their relationship with the web and technology for her history of U.S. Cities course last winter.To bring urban history to life for her students and encourage them to explore and see their world in new ways, Dr. O’Mara created an innovative project that focused on Seattle’s dynamic South Lake Union neighborhood, now an area of high-tech businesses, medical clinics, trendy eateries, and pricey real estate.