Stephanie Frank
@franklyurban.bsky.social
Former planning professor, current preservation planner and film fanatic living in historic Greenbelt, MD.
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After my dad’s health forced him to retire, I spent a decade organizing his research and uncollected writing, finishing after he died in 2018. Now @tomsugrue.bsky.social has edited this volume of it (and written a great intro) for @uchicagopress.bsky.social.
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Segregating Cities
Collects critical essays by the author of Making the Second Ghetto. Arnold R. Hirsch (1949–2018) was one of the preeminent urban historians of his generation, a reputation cemented by his landmark b...
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December 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
After my dad’s health forced him to retire, I spent a decade organizing his research and uncollected writing, finishing after he died in 2018. Now @tomsugrue.bsky.social has edited this volume of it (and written a great intro) for @uchicagopress.bsky.social.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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we did it y’all 🥹💪 they said it couldn’t be done www.fox5dc.com/news/new-bil...
November 18, 2025 at 10:32 PM
we did it y’all 🥹💪 they said it couldn’t be done www.fox5dc.com/news/new-bil...
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We are hiring in American History - TT open rank search
applications.caltech.edu/jobs/history
applications.caltech.edu/jobs/history
November 17, 2025 at 9:11 PM
We are hiring in American History - TT open rank search
applications.caltech.edu/jobs/history
applications.caltech.edu/jobs/history
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Thanks @urbanhistorya.bsky.social for the opportunity to write, about #birds #envhist #urbanhist and #light! 🐧 🐦 🐤 🕯️ 💡 ⚡️
Congrats to this year's GSB winner, @charlotte-leib.bsky.social, read her entry "The Healing Wounds of Light: Birds, Cities, & the Fast, Slow & Forgotten Violence of Artificial Illumination" & Alexandra Mitchell's "Playing with Fire: Pyrotechnic New York Youth at the Turn of the 20th century" here:
Congratulations to Our 2025 Graduate Student Blogging Contest Winner!
This year’s contest, The Metropole’s ninth, saw entries that considered the topic of “Light” from widely ranging perspectives, and both of this year’s entrants drew pr…
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October 30, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Thanks @urbanhistorya.bsky.social for the opportunity to write, about #birds #envhist #urbanhist and #light! 🐧 🐦 🐤 🕯️ 💡 ⚡️
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In today’s Guardian with @kcarterjackson.bsky.social, explaining why teach-ins (like the one we’re holding Sunday!) are a vital part of activism.
Why we’re holding a teach-in about American history at the Smithsonian | Kellie Carter Jackson and Nicole Hemmer
Podcasters, professors, journalists and ordinary citizens will gather in Washington as the Trump regime wages war on history
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October 24, 2025 at 1:10 PM
In today’s Guardian with @kcarterjackson.bsky.social, explaining why teach-ins (like the one we’re holding Sunday!) are a vital part of activism.
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I am posting this in the hope my followers in Maryland and the surrounding area have knowledge of this car and its driver.
Maryland woman killed in hit-and-run; police release suspect vehicle details
Maryland woman killed in hit-and-run; police release suspect vehicle details
Maryland woman killed in hit-and-run; police release suspect vehicle details
Officials are seeking the public's help in a hit-and-run which left one woman dead.
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October 19, 2025 at 7:55 PM
I am posting this in the hope my followers in Maryland and the surrounding area have knowledge of this car and its driver.
Maryland woman killed in hit-and-run; police release suspect vehicle details
Maryland woman killed in hit-and-run; police release suspect vehicle details
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Any academics out there privileged enough to have access to Taylor & Francis willing to send PDF: Appler, Douglas R. “Affordable Housing in National Register Districts: Recognizing the Advantages of Historic Urban Neighborhoods in Louisville and Covington, Kentucky, USA.” Journal of Urbanism, 2016.
October 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Any academics out there privileged enough to have access to Taylor & Francis willing to send PDF: Appler, Douglas R. “Affordable Housing in National Register Districts: Recognizing the Advantages of Historic Urban Neighborhoods in Louisville and Covington, Kentucky, USA.” Journal of Urbanism, 2016.
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We are honoring Mike Davis at the @urbanhistorya.bsky.social UHA Conference 2025 in Los Angeles.
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We Are Honoring Mike Davis at the Urban History Association Conference 2025 in Los Angeles
We’re honoring Mike Davis at the Urban History Association Conference 2025. Urban History Association Conference 2025 Metropolitan Majorities: UHA 11th Biennial Conference The Biltmore Los An…
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September 29, 2025 at 10:54 PM
We are honoring Mike Davis at the @urbanhistorya.bsky.social UHA Conference 2025 in Los Angeles.
c1typlann3r.blog/2025/09/29/w...
c1typlann3r.blog/2025/09/29/w...
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Now through this weekend, I'll donate $1 to @51st.news for each:
- person who reposts this post
- new follower @51st.news ws gets
- new follower @maustermuhle.bsky.social gets
- new follower @christurdisani.bsky.social gets
- new follower I get
And tag/DM me your donation = I'll match it 1:1.
- person who reposts this post
- new follower @51st.news ws gets
- new follower @maustermuhle.bsky.social gets
- new follower @christurdisani.bsky.social gets
- new follower I get
And tag/DM me your donation = I'll match it 1:1.
Three days remain to hit the goal in our campaign to hire @maustermuhle.bsky.social full-time.
We know there's a ways to go, but with less than half left to raise...we could reach it easy peasy if each person who donated asked one friend to give too. givebutter.com/SsQ8CG
We know there's a ways to go, but with less than half left to raise...we could reach it easy peasy if each person who donated asked one friend to give too. givebutter.com/SsQ8CG
Time to Grow The 51st
Help us hire Christina and Martin Full-Time!
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August 7, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Now through this weekend, I'll donate $1 to @51st.news for each:
- person who reposts this post
- new follower @51st.news ws gets
- new follower @maustermuhle.bsky.social gets
- new follower @christurdisani.bsky.social gets
- new follower I get
And tag/DM me your donation = I'll match it 1:1.
- person who reposts this post
- new follower @51st.news ws gets
- new follower @maustermuhle.bsky.social gets
- new follower @christurdisani.bsky.social gets
- new follower I get
And tag/DM me your donation = I'll match it 1:1.
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The Hollywood Conference is just over a week away and we have our full schedule up on our website. It's going to be so much fun (for an academic conference)! #HWC25 thehollywoodconference.com
July 7, 2025 at 11:35 PM
The Hollywood Conference is just over a week away and we have our full schedule up on our website. It's going to be so much fun (for an academic conference)! #HWC25 thehollywoodconference.com
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In midst of one of LA's most intense, challenging summers, we're busy planning for UHA2025LA in Oct. I'm esp excited to announce this panel on Literary LA. It's open to public and all conference attendees. LA's writer community is warmly invited to attend!
www.urbanhistory.org/Literary-LA
www.urbanhistory.org/Literary-LA
Urban History Association - Literary LA
www.urbanhistory.org
July 2, 2025 at 9:03 PM
In midst of one of LA's most intense, challenging summers, we're busy planning for UHA2025LA in Oct. I'm esp excited to announce this panel on Literary LA. It's open to public and all conference attendees. LA's writer community is warmly invited to attend!
www.urbanhistory.org/Literary-LA
www.urbanhistory.org/Literary-LA
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Historic Preservation job in my hometown - the Preservation Resource Center is in such a lovely Gothic Revival warehouse by the GNO bridge. Great opportunity to help make preservation work in New Orleans!
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July 1, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Historic Preservation job in my hometown - the Preservation Resource Center is in such a lovely Gothic Revival warehouse by the GNO bridge. Great opportunity to help make preservation work in New Orleans!
preservenet.org/job/preserva...
preservenet.org/job/preserva...
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i'm in a movie theater (using my phone because it's 15 minutes before showtime, i'm not an animal) and it is tepidly cool in here at best. what is happening to this country if our movie theaters aren't a bone chillingly frigid escape from the blazing summer heat anymore
June 23, 2025 at 10:08 PM
i'm in a movie theater (using my phone because it's 15 minutes before showtime, i'm not an animal) and it is tepidly cool in here at best. what is happening to this country if our movie theaters aren't a bone chillingly frigid escape from the blazing summer heat anymore
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This year's GSB is out! Send us your entry grad students!
This year's theme is light and the various ways it intersects with urban history! Check out the call and send us your piece!
This year's theme is light and the various ways it intersects with urban history! Check out the call and send us your piece!
The Grad Student Blogging Contest 2025!
Light The Metropole/Urban History Association Graduate Student Blogging Contest, now in its ninth year, exists to support graduate students in exploring short form, publicly-oriented writing in his…
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June 2, 2025 at 3:28 PM
This year's GSB is out! Send us your entry grad students!
This year's theme is light and the various ways it intersects with urban history! Check out the call and send us your piece!
This year's theme is light and the various ways it intersects with urban history! Check out the call and send us your piece!
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PAW Partnership for Animal Welfare
Greenbelt, MD 20770
(301) 572-4729
Click on pic for details:
Greenbelt, MD 20770
(301) 572-4729
Click on pic for details:
May 18, 2025 at 2:04 AM
PAW Partnership for Animal Welfare
Greenbelt, MD 20770
(301) 572-4729
Click on pic for details:
Greenbelt, MD 20770
(301) 572-4729
Click on pic for details:
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Re: my last two posts: Please come to my zoom talk — Case Logics: Furnishing a Bureaucratic Implosion" — on Thurs, May 8, at 5pm ET!
We'll talk about Oval Office bling, Mar-a-Lago banquet table grift, the executive order tiny desk, the filing cabinets of civil service, and community card catalogs!
We'll talk about Oval Office bling, Mar-a-Lago banquet table grift, the executive order tiny desk, the filing cabinets of civil service, and community card catalogs!
May 4, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Re: my last two posts: Please come to my zoom talk — Case Logics: Furnishing a Bureaucratic Implosion" — on Thurs, May 8, at 5pm ET!
We'll talk about Oval Office bling, Mar-a-Lago banquet table grift, the executive order tiny desk, the filing cabinets of civil service, and community card catalogs!
We'll talk about Oval Office bling, Mar-a-Lago banquet table grift, the executive order tiny desk, the filing cabinets of civil service, and community card catalogs!
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WE'RE HIRING: We're continuing to expand our geographic scope & doing a hiring round for zoning/GIS analysts and preservation people. We tend to close applications very quickly, so please pass this on to interested folks &/or send in inquiries/letters of interest at your earliest convenience! 👩💻🗺️🏛️
📢 Land Use Atlas Inc. is excited to announce *3* open positions!
The #NationalZoningAtlas is a cutting-edge research project at the nexus of planning, law, & data science. Come join our multi-disciplinary team of analysts working to build the gold standard of #zoningdata.
zoningatlas.org/jobs
The #NationalZoningAtlas is a cutting-edge research project at the nexus of planning, law, & data science. Come join our multi-disciplinary team of analysts working to build the gold standard of #zoningdata.
zoningatlas.org/jobs
April 30, 2025 at 6:45 PM
WE'RE HIRING: We're continuing to expand our geographic scope & doing a hiring round for zoning/GIS analysts and preservation people. We tend to close applications very quickly, so please pass this on to interested folks &/or send in inquiries/letters of interest at your earliest convenience! 👩💻🗺️🏛️
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Happy Independent Bookstore Day! Y'all are showin' up right at 9am! ❤️ We appreciate you so much! @americanbookseller.bsky.social
Can't make it to the store today? No worries! Share this post and be entered into a raffle for a gift card! Woot woot!! 🎉🎉
Can't make it to the store today? No worries! Share this post and be entered into a raffle for a gift card! Woot woot!! 🎉🎉
April 26, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Happy Independent Bookstore Day! Y'all are showin' up right at 9am! ❤️ We appreciate you so much! @americanbookseller.bsky.social
Can't make it to the store today? No worries! Share this post and be entered into a raffle for a gift card! Woot woot!! 🎉🎉
Can't make it to the store today? No worries! Share this post and be entered into a raffle for a gift card! Woot woot!! 🎉🎉
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The great Bruce Willis turns 70 years old today.
For @vanityfair.com, I talked to Samuel L. Jackson, Bonnie Bedelia, and Glenn Gordon Caron, and wrote about why I think he's one of our most underrated and versatile actors.
www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...
For @vanityfair.com, I talked to Samuel L. Jackson, Bonnie Bedelia, and Glenn Gordon Caron, and wrote about why I think he's one of our most underrated and versatile actors.
www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...
Heartthrob, Hero, Closet Intellectual: The Many Faces of Bruce Willis
As Willis turns 70, costars like Samuel L. Jackson and Bonnie Bedelia pay tribute to one of Hollywood’s most surprising leading men: a movie star with the searching spirit of a true artist.
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March 19, 2025 at 2:54 PM
The great Bruce Willis turns 70 years old today.
For @vanityfair.com, I talked to Samuel L. Jackson, Bonnie Bedelia, and Glenn Gordon Caron, and wrote about why I think he's one of our most underrated and versatile actors.
www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...
For @vanityfair.com, I talked to Samuel L. Jackson, Bonnie Bedelia, and Glenn Gordon Caron, and wrote about why I think he's one of our most underrated and versatile actors.
www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...
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A big thank you to NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR PRESERVATION EDUCATION for asking me to moderate conversations on shifting preservation practices - I am excited to kick off this series with Andrea R. Roberts, PhD tomorrow. Register: lnkd.in/e6NMVMkv
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: NCPE Meeting: Shifting Preservation Pedagogy. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
A conversation with Dr. Andrea Roberts and Sarah Marsom
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March 10, 2025 at 10:49 PM
A big thank you to NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR PRESERVATION EDUCATION for asking me to moderate conversations on shifting preservation practices - I am excited to kick off this series with Andrea R. Roberts, PhD tomorrow. Register: lnkd.in/e6NMVMkv
This was all pre Oscars. Movies this weekend!
March 7, 2025 at 7:09 PM
This was all pre Oscars. Movies this weekend!
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The Oscars isn’t really about anointing the best picture. It’s just hoping the most annoying picture doesn’t win.
March 3, 2025 at 3:59 AM
The Oscars isn’t really about anointing the best picture. It’s just hoping the most annoying picture doesn’t win.
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hulu collapsing during the oscars is a collision of both ways streaming broke communal entertainment
sean baker gives speech about how streaming has disrupted film as a communal experience (physical space)
meanwhile, hulu stops working and breaks the tv communal space (simultaneous experience)
sean baker gives speech about how streaming has disrupted film as a communal experience (physical space)
meanwhile, hulu stops working and breaks the tv communal space (simultaneous experience)
March 3, 2025 at 4:02 AM
hulu collapsing during the oscars is a collision of both ways streaming broke communal entertainment
sean baker gives speech about how streaming has disrupted film as a communal experience (physical space)
meanwhile, hulu stops working and breaks the tv communal space (simultaneous experience)
sean baker gives speech about how streaming has disrupted film as a communal experience (physical space)
meanwhile, hulu stops working and breaks the tv communal space (simultaneous experience)
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"The Rome in both Gladiator films is a landscape of monumental architecture subtly but pervasively inflected by fascist styles ... this version of antiquity became ever more firmly constructed as a white legacy, a vehicle for and proof of white greatness." Grace Gillies on the Rome of Gladiator
Building the Golden City: Rome in the Gladiator Films
Editor’s Note: This is the second post in The Metropole’s theme for February 2025 “Celluloid City” which explores the role of and interplay between cities and film. You can …
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February 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
"The Rome in both Gladiator films is a landscape of monumental architecture subtly but pervasively inflected by fascist styles ... this version of antiquity became ever more firmly constructed as a white legacy, a vehicle for and proof of white greatness." Grace Gillies on the Rome of Gladiator