What Street Trees Tell Us About Our Cities – A Review of “Seeing Trees”

November 17, 2021.Reading time 7 minutes.

Dümpelmann, Sonja. Seeing Trees: A History of Street Trees in New York and Berlin. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. Reviewed by Sara E. Levine Seeing Trees: A History of Street Trees in New York and Berlin by Sonja Dümpelmann is more than a history of street trees in two cities. It is about politics […]

Writing about Street Life and Thinking about COVID

October 28, 2020.Reading time 14 minutes.

The Metropole Bookshelf is an opportunity for authors of forthcoming or recently published books to let the UHA community know about their new work in the field. By Brian Ladd My new book, The Streets of Europe, mostly ends a century ago, so it’s not about cars, but it would not have happened without their […]

The Visual City: Photography, Film, and Postcards

February 6, 2020.Reading time 15 minutes.

“If the city is the raw material for production, for economic development, and for academic research, it has also been available to artists,” writes Helen Liggett in her 2003 work, Urban Encounters. “Photographs can function as sites of participatory reading that provoke urban encounters, first, in the relationship between the photographer and the city, and, […]

Member of the Week: Dorothee Brantz

November 27, 2018.Reading time 5 minutes.

Dorothee Brantz Center for Metropolitan Studies Technische Universität Berlin, Germany Describe your current research. What about it drew your interest? I am currently working on two new projects – one about the impact of seasons on urban life in the US and Europe between 1900 and 2000. The other asks about the role of nature […]