Where Heritage Becomes Habit: Everyday Play with the Roman Past in a Spanish City

This is the seventh post in our series, Cities at Play. By Sandra Coffey In Tarragona, a coastal city in Catalunya, Spain, the past sits so casually in the Plaça del Fòrum that many first-time visitors stop in disbelief. Here, 1st century Roman ruins, the surviving remnants of the Provincial Forum of Roman Tarraco, lie […]

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“In the Future” Postcards as Popular Urbanism

By Peter Soppelsa This post focuses on a remarkable source for illustrating popular urbanism and urban imaginaries: European and American photomontage postcards from around 1900 to 1920 that visualize future cities. Cobbling together an online archive of over 400 future cities photomontages, I discovered an under-utilized body of evidence about popular urbanism. Visual and textual […]

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