Archives offer a material site for national memory. By Dr. Samuel BurgumSenior Lecturer in SociologyBirmingham City University...
Cities and Urban Life
Explore how cities have shaped human experience from the earliest urban settlements to modern metropolises. Coverage follows urban growth and planning while examining how people built communities and experienced daily life within them.
Global centers of civilization have alternated. By John McKennaSenior Writer, Formative ContentForum AgendaWorld Economic Forum Introduction The...
Considering the role of urban economics, networks and imperial polities in promoting resilient cities in antiquity. By...
Municipal market clerks closely supervised and controlled food retailing in order to protect consumers. In 1913 municipal...
There is a tremendous wealth of research on Gilded Age Pittsburgh, examining the other side of that...
The industrial boom of the late 19th century led Americans and immigrants to leave farming life and...
How, if at all, did religious communities change their inherited traditions in the midst of new surroundings?...
Urban farming can make it easier for city residents to obtain healthy, affordable food. During the partial...
In forsaking planning, we are determined to fail. This will be the century of urbanisation, when seven...
The location of towns and cities in ancient Egypt was dictated by two principal factors. By Dr. Steven...
The grandeur that early European explorers had come to expect in royal building programs seems to have been...
Berenice Abbott “I am an American, who, after eight years of residence in Europe, came back to...
Ruins in the Town of Ur, Southern Iraq / Photo by M.Lubinski, Wikimedia Commons Among its peaks of...
The Acropolis at Athens painted by Leo von Klenze (1784–1864) / Public Domain Reviewing short, illustrated case...
Detail of a relief at Persepolis showing a procession of subject peoples bringing gifts characteristic of their...
Sumer, in southernmost Mesopotamia, was the first true city in the world, some time not very much...
Map of Egypt showing the major sites and settlements Looking at the choices the ancient Egyptians made in...
Mythical figurines from Nagada The rise of the city as an important institution can perhaps more confidently be...
dwell.com Looking at the urban social history of Accra through the singular Oxford Street, part of the city’s...
By John Hicks / 07.21.2011 Associate Editor Getty Research Institute Nikolaus Pevsner (1902–1983) was one of the...
Fair State’s annual Co-Optoberfest brings Northeast Minneapolis together through beer, brats, and Bavarian-style merriment every fall. As...
Urban Rigger, a housing and architect firm in Denmark, has come up with an eco-friendly way to...