Urban – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com Sat, 01 Nov 2025 17:58:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 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 Climate Change: An Eco-Anthropocentric Approach to Architectural and Urban Planning https://brewminate.com/climate-change-an-eco-anthropocentric-approach-to-architectural-and-urban-planning/ Tue, 02 Nov 2021 18:11:42 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=163690 Analyzing implemented eco-anthropocentric urban planning and architectural design projects. By Dr. Michael EichnerVice Director of the Architecture &

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Building the Ecomegacities of the Future https://brewminate.com/building-the-ecomegacities-of-the-future/ Tue, 02 Nov 2021 18:11:11 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=163706 We need to abandon Petropolis to prevent climate breakdown. Environmentalism is often experienced as a desire to return to

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Reconciling the Climate Emergency to the Reality of Cities as Dissipative Structures https://brewminate.com/reconciling-the-climate-emergency-to-the-reality-of-cities-as-dissipative-structures/ Tue, 02 Nov 2021 18:10:46 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=163725 A dissipative structure uses high-grade energy and concentrated materials appropriated from its surroundings. Last April, Earth Day celebrated

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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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Streets and Fields: Daily Life in Medieval Towns and Villages https://brewminate.com/life-in-medieval-towns-and-villages/ Fri, 28 Aug 2020 17:06:03 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=132516 Exploring trade and commerce, homes and households, disease and medicine, crime and punishment, and leisure and entertainment. Introduction

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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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The Great Depression: Farms and Cities in the 1930s https://brewminate.com/the-great-depression-farms-and-cities-in-the-1930s/ Mon, 13 Apr 2020 19:41:56 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=122324 By Tom MorainHistorian Introduction Farmers struggled with low prices all through the 1920s, but after 1929 things began

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The Industrial Revolution: Transformation of Cities and the Urban Experience https://brewminate.com/the-industrial-revolution-transformation-of-cities-and-the-urban-experience/ Wed, 23 Oct 2019 19:28:58 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=108890 The Industrial Revolution was a key foundation of transforming cities and the urban experience.  Europeans faced issues such as

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A Short History of the Idea of ‘Main Street’ in America https://brewminate.com/a-short-history-of-the-idea-of-main-street-in-america/ Tue, 13 Aug 2019 19:07:57 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=104664 From Nathaniel Hawthorne to Disneyland, the concept has represented both the experimental and the conventional. In the United

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