Cityscape Number 4, November 19, 2019

November 19, 2019.Reading time 7 minutes.

Cityscape is The Metropole’s monthly shortcut to recent, forthcoming, or overlooked writing, exhibits and film. The City in Print A Place to Call Home: Immigrant Exclusion and Urban Belonging in New York, Paris, and Barcelona By Ernesto Castañeda. Stanford University Press, 2018. A study conducted over 14 years comparing the assimilation experience of African and […]

With SACRPH Almost Here, a round-up of NOVA on The Metropole

October 28, 2019.Reading time 3 minutes.

As many of our readers may already be aware, SACRPH 2019 commences this Thursday in Northern Virginia (NOVA). In anticipation of the conference, we’d like to provide attendees and non-attendees alike to chance to explore a bit of Northern Virginia’s history. “Capital within a Capital: Covert Action, the Vietnam War, and Creating a “Little Saigon” […]

A round up of our September Metro of the Month: Toronto

October 1, 2019.Reading time 5 minutes.

With September coming to an end, we bid farewell to Toronto. However, we would be remiss not to provide you with a quick review of our September 2019 Metropolis of the Month. The Indigenous City: Indigeneity and Toronto’s Past and Present Though we usually provide an overview of a city’s history, other times we focus […]

Hyping Philly One More Time: A Round Up of our March Metro of the Month with additional Bibliography

April 3, 2019.Reading time 14 minutes.

As historians gather their kits together to embark on the quest that is #OAH19, The Metropole would like to provide some Philadelphia-centric reading material to those travelling the highways and byways of America to reach the City of Brotherly Love. We offer, first, a round up of our March coverage of the Philly for our […]