Very much enjoyed doing this video interview about my article! Thanks to @erikahanna.bsky.social and @urbanhistory.bsky.social for the opportunity. Hopefully of interest to colleagues across urban history and environmental humanities #UrbanHist #UrbanStudies #EnviroHums #CoastalHist
Thrilled to announce the new #pod a former student has launched to uncover/explore the incredible history of light rail in #HamOnt! Check out Hammer and Rails (what a name!) via this link: shows.acast.com/hammer-and-r... #UrbanHist #EnvHist
Historian friends, I'd be thrilled if you'd check out my article on how colonial planners wielded emerging medical knowledge to reinforce land commodification and social segregation in Egypt's Port Fouad, ca 1920s, co-authored with Mohamed Gamal-Eldin. #HisSci #HisMed #EnvHis #EnvHums #UrbanHist
#HistSTM #HistMed #UrbanHist folks, this one's for you 🗃️👇
Check out Maggie McNulty's review of Erin Katherine Goodling's "Green City Rising: Contamination, Cleanup, and Collective Action," published in 2024 by @ugapress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #urbanhist #envjustice
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
Historian friends, I'd be thrilled if you'd check out my article on how colonial planners wielded emerging medical knowledge to reinforce land commodification and social segregation in Egypt's Port Fouad, ca 1920s, co-authored with Mohamed Gamal-Eldin. #HisSci #HisMed #EnvHis #EnvHums #UrbanHist
Historian friends, I'd be thrilled if you'd check out my article on how colonial planners wielded emerging medical knowledge to reinforce land commodification and social segregation in Egypt's Port Fouad, ca 1920s, co-authored with Mohamed Gamal-Eldin. #HisSci #HisMed #EnvHis #EnvHums #UrbanHist
Historian friends, I'd be thrilled if you'd check out my article on how colonial planners wielded emerging medical knowledge to reinforce land commodification and social segregation in Egypt's Port Fouad, ca 1920s, co-authored with Mohamed Gamal-Eldin. #HisSci #HisMed #EnvHis #EnvHums #UrbanHist
Thanks for the mention @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social!
I'm looking fwd to reading the urban environmental history series that @nichecanada.bsky.social is teaming with @urbanhistorya.bsky.social's The Metropole to publish this January. #envhist #urbanhist
Historian friends, I'd be thrilled if you'd check out my article on how colonial planners wielded emerging medical knowledge to reinforce land commodification and social segregation in Egypt's Port Fouad, ca 1920s, co-authored with Mohamed Gamal-Eldin. #HisSci #HisMed #EnvHis #EnvHums #UrbanHist
Thanks @urbanhistorya.bsky.social for the opportunity to write, about #birds #envhist #urbanhist and #light! 🐧 🐦 🐤 🕯️ 💡 ⚡️
I love the cover! Congratulations on the book and its publication!
#urbanhist
@urbanhistorya.bsky.social
End thread. Photos by author were taken on October 9th, during the Urban History Association's biennial conference in Los Angeles.
#Envirohist #Urbanhist #Disasterhist #LAHist #Californiahist #skystorians #UHALA2025
More action from Friday evening 10/10 and today at #UHA2025LA
#urbanhist #planninghist #energyhist #envhist #Biltmore #LosAngeles
Some highlights from the #UHA2025LA #instagram #stories feed!
www.instagram.com/urbanhistory... #urbanhist #planninghist #energyhist #envhist #Biltmore #LosAngeles
website homepage for The Living New Deal DH project and atlas https://livingnewdeal.org/
#UHA2025LA Digital Exhibits, Sat. 10/11, 4-5:30pm
➤ Natalie McDonald, Lauren Davies & Omar Bernal, The Living #NewDeal
➤ Becky Nicolaides & Deborah Holmes-Wong, #LACounty #Demographic #Data Project, 1950-2010
** See the first project here ** livingnewdeal.org
#digitalhumanities #urbanhist #envhist
Also joining @lawrencecphd.bsky.social @elsadevienne.bsky.social & Kara is Alison Rose Jefferson sharing *Black California Dreamin’" on how blacks claimed space on the LA frontier I am an indepn't Historian & Heritage Conservationist) who will be sharing " #parks #rec #racism #segregation #urbanhist
The #Amsterdam Time Machine - new and developing public research tool about the history of Amsterdam, its geography, streets, people, and more. Launched by @uvahumanities.bsky.social and digital colleagues, in this, Amsterdam's 750th birthday year🥳
#UrbanHist #HistGeo #DutchHist #SocialHist 🗃️
View of downtown skyline of Los Angeles, with snowy San Gabriel mountains in the distance. Cover of the Urban History Association’s program for their 11th biennial conference in Los Angeles this October 9-12.
Session 80 • Sat. 8:00-9:30 am Summer in the City: Urban Heat in the Past, Present, and Future Chair & Commentator: Mars Plater University of Connecticut Lawrence Culver Utah State University Hidden Histories of Heat in LA's Land of Sunshine Alison Rose Jefferson Independent Historian and Heritage Conservation Consultant Black California Dreamin': Claiming Space at America's Leisure Frontier Elsa Devienne Northumbria University History Tells Us LA's Beaches are Man-Made. But How Long until They're Gone Forever? Kara Schlichting Queens College, CUNY Rethinking New York City's "Long Hot Summers"
How can the history of heat inform our understanding of planning, parks, policing, incarceration, inequality, public recreation, and public health in cities? This panel session considers how city people have survived sweaty summers in the past, and how authorities have reacted to civilians searching for relief from the heat. Los Angeles-a city born in no small part through promotion of climate for recreation and health-is an apt place to ask these questions about the past while confronting a present and future threatened by climate catastrophe. Angelenos are grappling with devastating fires, sweltering heat, and other consequences of a changing and more chaotic climate. Our panelists will look at examples from this and other cities to consider how the history of urban heat might inform planning for climate change's impacts. Alison Rose Jefferson considers how climate and heat played a role in the histories of recreational and resort destinations for African American Southern Californians. Lawrence Culver examines histories of heat concealed within LA's supposed climate paradise. Elsa Devienne explores how the beaches of LA-climate refuges on hot days-are threatened by climate change and rising seas. Across the continent, New York City's history is also shaped by urban heat. Mars Plater demonstrates that late nineteenth century New Yorkers were so eager to beat the heat that steamboat excursionists rioted rather than returning to the sweltering city. Kara Schlichting illuminates how the urban heat island effect led to conflict, political concern, and police brutality in predominantly Black NYC neighborhoods in the summers of 1967 and 1968. Together, these panelists and this session will examine heat as a historical issue in cities, and its importance for understanding our urban climatic past and future.
I’m delighted to be on the program for the Urban History Association’s first ever conference in Los Angeles! My panel, “Summer in the City: Urban Heat in the Past, Present, and Future,” will be on Saturday. The program listing and abstract are below.
#UHA #urbanhist #envirohist
Re-upping for the weekend crowd. New #OpenAccess #UrbanHist #EnvHums #interdisciplinarity
Very pleased that my piece 'Urban history as urgent work, an argument for disciplinary promiscuity' has been published in @urbanhistory.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S096...
Many thanks to @mctom.bsky.social for organising the roundtable that got these thoughts going back in 2023! #UrbanHist #EnvHums
very much looking forward to reading this new "urban history review" theme issue about vancouver, edited by @belshaw.bsky.social!
utppublishing.com/toc/uhr/53/2
#bchist #cdnhist #urbanhist
From urban blight to integration, Jane Jacobs to gentrification, Sesame Street has always been inextricably tied to US urbanism—and this article about all of it is an informative delight.
Gift article.
#urbanhist #skystorians
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/r...
next week! #envhist #envhum #urbanhist #urbanstudies
ICYMI #Skystorians, here's our new article on the development of #ambulance in Scotland and England, taking in #MilHist #HistMed #HistSTM #PoliceHist #WmnsHist #UrbanHist and #FirstAid 🗃
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
ICYMI #Skystorians, here's our new article on the development of #ambulance in Scotland and England, taking in #MilHist #HistMed #HistSTM #PoliceHist #WmnsHist #UrbanHist and #FirstAid 🗃
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
ICYMI #Twitterstorians, here's our new article on the development of #ambulance in Scotland and England, taking in #MilHist #HistMed #HistSTM #PoliceHist #WmnsHist #UrbanHist and #FirstAid.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0307102...
🚨 Shiny new #OA article 🚑
'Choreographing urban #ambulance in Britain, c.1870–1920: movement, gender, biological time and the city' by myself and Shane Ewen.
#HistMed #HistSTM #UrbanHist #Skystorians #FirstAid #UrbanStudies 🗃
🚨New, shiny #OA article🚑
'Choreographing urban #ambulance in Britain, c.1870–1920: movement, gender, biological time and the city' by myself and Shane Ewen, a @BurnsHistory piece.
#HistMed #HistSTM #UrbanHist #Twitterstorians #UrbanStudies...
Check out Christopher Sellers's review of @kiangoh.bsky.social's "Form and Flow: The Spatial Politics of Urban Resilience and Climate Justice," published in 2021 by @mitpress.bsky.social; review now available at H-Net
#envhist #envhum #envjustice #climate #urbanhist 🏙️
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