It's published! Excited to share my article'Metabolic Flows of Water in İstanbul in the Nineteenth Century:Tap Water, Waste, and Sanitation' #journalofurbanhistoryVolume50 Issue 1, 2024, pp.198-215. #urbanhistory #Sage #Urbaninfrastructure #water #İstanbul #19thcenturystudies
A sunny day in Portsea and a wander down Britain Street which I've never been down before, apparently the birthplace of one of the world's most famous engineers. #UrbanHistory #Portsmouth
'Feeling Lucky' has a cover now 😍 Want to read a comparative history of Monte Carlo and Las Vegas that blends urban, economic, emotional, and consumption history? Stay tuned for the July release in Palgrave History 's Worlds of Consumption Series! #EconomicHist #UrbanHistory
Fascinating Exploring the labyrinth of Kowloon Walled City - once Earth's most densely populated area, its unplanned, intertwined architecture let residents traverse without touching the ground. A chaotic yet vibrant urban jungle, now immortalized in art. #KowloonWalledCity #UrbanHistory .
#NewPublication
#YıldızPalace #Istanbul #Ottoman_Palaces #UrbanHistory #Architecture
'The Accidental Palace: The Making of Yıldız in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul'
Deniz Türker
Penn State University Press 2023
We're delighted to be supporting this #CfP for a series of panels at #IMC2024 , organised by one of our secretaries, Dr Richard Asquith. Please get in touch to submit a proposal for papers relating to #medieval #UrbanHistory and its documentation #MedievalTwitter #Twitterstorians
Come & get it #Bradford #Advertising #Fonts #Signage #Automotive #Architecture #UrbanHistory It can only be Aire Valley Gas Ltd Open to the public #PicturingBradford #Bradford HighStreets Ruxx Naqvi have you photographed this Ive seen it lots of times but it caught my eye today :)
UNDATED OLD PHOTO:
The San Sebastian Minor Basilica in Quiapo, MANILA, with a perspective shot from Nepomuceno Street. The Neo-Gothic structure was completed in 1891, with steel parts from Belgium. It was designated as a PH 'National Cultural Treasure' in 2011.
#UrbanHistory
UST ALMOST 92 YEARS AGO
Caption with photo credit: 'Santo Tomas University looking west, Manila, Philippines, Dec. 28, 1932 War Department, Army Air Forces, US National Archives @ John Tewell'
UST's 21.5ha campus is located in the district of Sampaloc, Manila.
#UrbanHistory
PRE-WAR AVENIDA RIZAL
Manila, Philippines
An undated, colorized photo showing a bustling Avenida Rizal in the 1930s. The photo, shot from a perspective on Carriedo Street in Sta. Cruz, looking northward, includes a tranvia, Ideal Bazaar, and the State Theater.
#UrbanHistory
Fascinating Exploring the labyrinth of Kowloon Walled City - once Earth's most densely populated area, its unplanned, intertwined architecture let residents traverse without touching the ground. A chaotic yet vibrant urban jungle, now immortalized in art. #KowloonWalledCity #UrbanHistory .
#OpenAccess
#NewRelease
#Ottoman #Tsarist #Russian #Habsburg_Monarchy #ColonialHistory #UrbanHistory
'Imperial Cities in the Tsarist, the Habsburg, and the Ottoman Empires'
eds. Ulrich Hofmeister, Florian Riedler
PUB: Routledge 2024
Direct Access PDF ⬇️
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And much earlier, the 'Konak' at the time of the Italo-Turkish war (end of 1911). Picture by french war reporter Gaston Chérau. Modern and old city of Tripoli. In the foreground damage caused by the Italian bombardments. #Libya #Urbanhistory More photos : editions-creaphis.com/fr/catalogue/v…
In 2 weeks, Brian Goldstein will chat with former Harlem CDC ED and CEO #RichardEaddy and Museum Director Carol Willis on the expanded copy of his book. Join us to learn about Harlem's transformation over the past 65 years!
#booktalk #nyc #urbanism #urbanhistory #harlem #gentrification
Beautiful doorcase at Wellfield House, School Lane, #Leyland , pictured in 1979. The site is now a supermarket car park. #Lancashire #UrbanHistory #AdoorableThursday
To be published very soon from Four Courts Press a collection of groundbreaking essays of #earlyModern #Kilkenny . My own chapter discusses how the city’s #MPs used the 1613 #Irish #parliament to protect #civic #autonomy . #urbanHistory #Ireland
The WW2 anti aircraft gun battery overlooking Bristol. Home of the Purdown Percy gun according to local legend* Now protected by very friendly goats! #PurdownPercy #Bristol #WW2 #UrbanHistory #UrbanArchaeology #StreetGoats