Urban – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:41:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://brewminate.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/cropped-BrewBLogo01-32x32.jpg Urban – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com 32 32 This City Is An Archive: Squatting History and Urban Authority https://brewminate.com/this-city-is-an-archive-squatting-history-and-urban-authority/ Thu, 21 Nov 2024 15:24:07 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=245693 Archives offer a material site for national memory. By Dr. Samuel BurgumSenior Lecturer in SociologyBirmingham City University Introduction

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]]> Calamities and Plagues: Locating Resilience in Ancient Urban Networks https://brewminate.com/calamities-and-plagues-locating-resilience-in-ancient-urban-networks/ Fri, 12 Apr 2024 14:01:18 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=229523 Considering the role of urban economics, networks and imperial polities in promoting resilient cities in antiquity. By Dr.

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]]> Feeding the Cities: Public Markets and Municipal Reform in the Progressive Era https://brewminate.com/feeding-the-cities-public-markets-and-municipal-reform-in-the-progressive-era/ Wed, 26 Apr 2023 14:00:20 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=199851 Municipal market clerks closely supervised and controlled food retailing in order to protect consumers. In 1913 municipal leaders

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]]> Pittsburgh: The Girders of Steel City’s History https://brewminate.com/pittsburgh-the-girders-of-steel-citys-history/ Wed, 13 Oct 2021 17:10:45 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=162715 There is a tremendous wealth of research on Gilded Age Pittsburgh, examining the other side of that class

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]]> America Moves to the City: Urban Growth in the Late Nineteenth Century https://brewminate.com/america-moves-to-the-city-urban-growth-in-the-late-nineteenth-century/ Wed, 05 Aug 2020 18:31:59 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=132845 The industrial boom of the late 19th century led Americans and immigrants to leave farming life and head

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]]> Faith in the City: Religion, Work, and Urban Life in Chicago, 1870-1920 https://brewminate.com/faith-in-the-city-religion-and-urban-life-in-chicago-1870-1920/ Sun, 03 May 2020 17:32:33 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=124280 How, if at all, did religious communities change their inherited traditions in the midst of new surroundings? Originally

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]]> How Urban Agriculture Can Improve Food Security in U.S. Cities https://brewminate.com/how-urban-agriculture-can-improve-food-security-in-u-s-cities/ Sat, 16 Mar 2019 17:43:33 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?page_id=88151 Urban farming can make it easier for city residents to obtain healthy, affordable food. During the partial federal

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]]> Planning to Fail: The Worst of Urban Worlds https://brewminate.com/planning-to-fail-the-worst-of-urban-worlds/ Sat, 16 Mar 2019 17:43:07 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?page_id=88744 In forsaking planning, we are determined to fail. This will be the century of urbanisation, when seven billion

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]]> The Location of Cities in Ancient Egypt https://brewminate.com/the-location-of-cities-in-ancient-egypt/ Sat, 16 Mar 2019 17:41:34 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=78846 The location of towns and cities in ancient Egypt was dictated by two principal factors. By Dr. Steven Snape

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