The Official Blog of the Urban History Association
This is the final entry in our 10th Annual Graduate Student Blogging Contest, “Revolution.” By Emi Higashiyama Green on Their Terms: Cairo’s Counterrevolutionary Landscape On January 25, 2011, Cairenes began filling the vast traffic circle at the center of downtown known as Tahrir Square (Midan al-Tahrir, or “Liberation Square”). They stayed for eighteen days, and […]
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Editor’s note: This is the eight and final post in our theme for January 2022, Urban Environmentalism. Additional entries can be seen at the end of this article. By Gwendolyn Lockman Butte, Montana, is currently known for its biggest eyesore and toxic waste site: the Berkeley Pit. It is part of one of the largest […]
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By Troy A. Hallsell When I first moved to Great Falls, Montana, in the summer of 2018 two things leapt out at me. First, the city had a well-developed, though not particularly well-maintained, park system. This was not much of a surprise; most cities founded or already established by the early twentieth century developed a […]
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