The Official Blog of the Urban History Association
Editor’s note: This is the seventh post in our theme for April 2025, The City Aquatic. For additional entries in the series, see here. By Michael Carriere On December 3, 2008, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett appeared at a day-long symposium on “concentrated poverty” in America, held at the Federal Reserve in Washington, D.C. Barrett told […]
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Editor’s note: This is the sixth post in our theme for April 2025, The City Aquatic. For additional entries in the series, see here. By Qingyun Lin There is no spectacle in the world more wonderful to a stranger’s eyes than the river population of the Celestial Empire.[1]—Osmond Tiffany (1823-1895) In May 1844, Osmond Tiffany—a […]
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Editor’s note: This is the fifth post in our theme for April 2025, The City Aquatic. For additional entries in the series, see here. By Fendy Tulodo In the vast archipelago of Indonesia, Maluku stands as a region shaped by both its turbulent history and its deep connection to the sea. Once the epicenter of […]
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Editor’s note: This is the fourth post in our theme for April 2025, The City Aquatic. For additional entries in the series, see here. By Emi Higashiyama The story of Taiwan’s emergence into modernity can be difficult to interpret because it is a story that has been caught in the fierce rivalry between China and […]
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Editor’s note: This is the third post in our theme for April 2025, The City Aquatic. For additional entries in the series, see here. By Gitonga Njeru Phillip Kilemia, aged 63, was born and raised in Nakuru. The businessman has seen the city grow to what it has become today. “Faced with myriad challenges, it […]
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Editor’s note: This is the second post in our theme for April 2025, The City Aquatic. For additional entries in the series, see here. By AN In cities across the world, rivers once central to daily life now flow unseen beneath layers of concrete and asphalt. These subterranean rivers–natural waterways that have been buried, diverted, […]
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Editor’s note: This is the first post for April 2025’s The City Aquatic theme. See here for additional entries in the theme. Thirty years ago, Universal Pictures released Waterworld, directed by Kevin Reynolds and starring Kevin Costner as a balding amphibious mutant who traverses the world on his trimaran, a boat that film critic Roger […]
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