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charlotte-leib.bsky.social
A little bit of #Revolutionary history & #urbanhistory: as Patriots fled west from New York City, this was the moment when #NewJersey 's Manhattan-adjacent towns first began to gain a kind of suburban-urban density that would never from that point stop accreting #Jersey #AmericanRevolution #history
250yearsagonews.bsky.social 250 Years Ago News @250yearsagonews.bsky.social · 3d
Feb. 8, 1776: With New York City having become "a scene of confusion and distress," the Committee of Safety calls on "all those among whom such poor [refugees] may come, to exercise great kindness and lenity toward them, by furnishing them with habitations, and other necessaries of life." 1/2
A map of New York City
February 10, 2026 at 12:53 AM
urbanhistory.bsky.social
📣 New #OpenAccess article

🏙️ Yuansha Niu, 'Colonial concepts in motion: the Shanghai Bund and its British imperial genealogies'

🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096... #UrbanHistory
Title and abstract for the linked article
February 5, 2026 at 9:55 AM
kamilruszala.bsky.social
CfP: "Ring Boulevards in the V4 Countries Conference" (Budapest, 27 April 2026).
Deadline approaching: 15 Feb. '26
Join us to discuss #urbanmodernity, #ringboulevards, #cities and transnational #urbanhistory in Habsburg Central Europe.
➡️ crihestu.id.uj.edu.pl/en_GB/wydarz...
February 5, 2026 at 10:53 AM
urbanhistory.bsky.social
📣 New #OpenAccess article on #FirstView

🏛️ Mats Hallenberg, @mlinnarsson.bsky.social and Pär Blomkvist, 'Explaining the welfare city: publicness, citizenship and the expansion of public services in Nordic cities, c. 1850–1920'

🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096... #UrbanHistory
Title and abstract for the linked article
January 30, 2026 at 1:50 PM
nichecanada.bsky.social
"Urban Nightscapes and the Anthropocene" by @sarabpritchard.bsky.social is the seventh post in our Urban and Environmental Dialogues series, published in collaboration with The Metropole - @urbanhistorya.bsky.social

niche-canada.org/2026/01/26/u...

#envhist #urbanhistory #lightpollution #urban
Urban Nightscapes and the Anthropocene
Pritchard argues that nightscape is both a useful and important analytic category for environmental as well as urban historians.
niche-canada.org
January 29, 2026 at 6:10 PM
janalena.bsky.social
What a great book! Wonderful chat with Saundra Weddle @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social chat about The #Brothel and Beyond: An #UrbanHistory of the #SexTrade in #EarlyModern #Venice @psupress.bsky.social #Skystorians #HistSex #Venetianist
newbooksnetwork.com/the-brothel-...
January 29, 2026 at 7:34 PM
nichecanada.bsky.social
This conversation will be based on Gilmore's NiCHE and @urbanhistorya.bsky.social article, "Remnant: Urban Prairie Teaches Lessons in Loss" - niche-canada.org/2026/01/15/r...

#envhist #urbanhistory #yxe #grasslands #urban
Remnant: Urban Prairie Teaches Lessons in Loss
Volunteering revealed urban conservation’s failures as Saskatoon Grasslands lost biodiversity, accountability, and fescue prairie, prompting calls for memorialization and justice.
niche-canada.org
January 26, 2026 at 7:55 PM
nichecanada.bsky.social
Today we have "Beyond Progress. Substations, Informality, and Environmental Changes" by @yzacarias.bsky.social

This is the sixth post in our Urban and Environmental Dialogues series, published in collaboration with @urbanhistorya.bsky.social

niche-canada.org/2026/01/22/b...

#envhist #urbanhistory
Beyond Progress. Substations, Informality, and Environmental Changes
Using electric company archives, Yohad Zacarias shows how Santiago’s substations reshaped peripheral landscapes, urban growth, and unequal access to electricity.
niche-canada.org
January 22, 2026 at 3:41 PM
onslies.bsky.social
Come and join this excellent gang! It's brilliant how much these ECRs have developed an insightful conversation across the years. #UrbanHistory #SkyStorians #MedievalSky #EarlyModern
arodsan95.bsky.social Ana Roda Sánchez @arodsan95.bsky.social · 21d
*Reposted CFP with alt text*

III Colloquium on Late Medieval and Early Modern Cities: Moving and Being Moved

London, 11-12 June 2026

Deadline abstract submissions: 31 January 2026

Looking forward to meeting everyone! 🤗🤗

#medievalsky #skystorians #medieval #earlymodern #callforpapers #history
Ill Colloquium on Late Medieval and Early Modern Cities in Europe: Moving and Being Moved Call for Papers London, 11-12 June 2026 We are delighted to launch the Call for Papers for the III Colloquium on Late Medieval and Early Modern Cities in Europe, which will take place in London on 11-12 June 2026. After two successful editions, this year's Colloquium will focus on movements) within and accross late medieval and early modern cities (ca. 1300-1800). Topics to be addressed may include but are not limited to: • Mobile people in urban centres, e.g. migrants, merchants, vagrants, enslaved people, minstrels, mendicants, and pilgrims. • The exchange of goods and knowledge. • Transitory urban events and performances that moved bodies and minds, including social uprisings, civic performances, dances and urban processions. • Lack of 'movement: considerations of what it means to stay put and belong in a city or to be forced to remain in a city. This is an interdisciplinary and international Colloquium which offers an opportunity for PhD students and early career scholars to share their research through 20-minute long presentations, and to receive feedback through constructive discussion. Established scholars will also be invited to present their research and methods and to contribute to discussion. There will also be opportunities for all participants to continue the conversation over coffee and lunch. Interested applicants are encouraged to send an abstract of 200 words along with a short bio to Ana Roda Sánchez (Queen Mary University of London), Eliot Benbow (Institute of Historical Research) and Emma Olson (University of Cambridge) in colloquiumcities@gmail.com by 31 January 2026. If you have any questions, please get in touch with us. We look forward to receiving your proposals and learning about your research!
January 21, 2026 at 11:42 AM
nichecanada.bsky.social
Today we have "Reading the City Through Countermonuments of Ecology: From Mistaseni to Floodlines" by John Bessai

This is the 5th post in our Urban and Environmental Dialogues series, published in collaboration with @urbanhistorya.bsky.social

niche-canada.org/2026/01/19/r...
#envhist #urbanhistory
Reading the City Through Countermonuments of Ecology: From Mistaseni to Floodlines
Ecological countermonuments use land, water, and living systems to preserve Indigenous histories, flood memory, and settler-colonial conflicts within cities today.
niche-canada.org
January 19, 2026 at 10:02 PM
nichecanada.bsky.social
"The Making of Grimsby’s Dock Tower: The Entanglements of Infrastructural Relations" by @samgrinsell.bsky.social is the third post in our Urban and Environmental Dialogues series, published in collaboration with @urbanhistorya.bsky.social

niche-canada.org/2026/01/12/t...

#envhist #urbanhistory
The Making of Grimsby’s Dock Tower: The Entanglements of Infrastructural Relations
Grimsby Dock Tower exemplifies nineteenth-century infrastructure linking land, sea, commerce, and ecology, revealing buildings as nodes within global circulation systems.
niche-canada.org
January 14, 2026 at 4:16 PM
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𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗶𝗿𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗜𝗱𝗲𝗮𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗼𝘄𝗻 (𝟭𝟮𝟬𝟬-𝟭𝟱𝟬𝟬)
Élodie Lecuppre-Desjardin, Nils Bock (eds)

More Info: bit.ly/4bfXotl

#Medievalsky #UrbanHistory #History #Medievalists #Historysky
January 13, 2026 at 8:29 AM
urbanhistory.bsky.social
📣 New #OpenAccess article out now

🚗 Chris Beer, 'Conceptualizing choices in the commuter belt: travel time and journeys to work in late twentieth-century Sydney and Melbourne, Australia'

🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096... #UrbanHistory
Title and abstract for the linked article
January 12, 2026 at 1:25 PM
urbanhistorya.bsky.social
New on the blog! @samgrinsell.bsky.social on Grimsby's Dock Tower: themetropole.blog/2026/01/12/t... @nichecanada.bsky.social
#UrbanHistory #CoastalHist #NorthSea #EnvHist #EnvHums
The Making of Grimsby’s Dock Tower: The Entanglements of Infrastructural Relations
This is the third post in Urban and Environmental Dialogues, our January collaboration with the Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE). For other entries in the series, see here. By Sa…
themetropole.blog
January 12, 2026 at 2:26 PM
nichecanada.bsky.social
Today we have "The Sidewalk as an Environmental Threshold" by Jaida Johnson.

This is the second post in our Urban and Environmental Dialogues series, published in collaboration with The Metropole - @urbanhistorya.bsky.social

niche-canada.org/2026/01/08/t...

#envhist #urbanhistory #chicago
The Sidewalk as an Environmental Threshold
Sidewalks became symbols of urban order, hygiene, and civility, framing nature as disorderly threat through Chicago’s historical regulation and reform.
niche-canada.org
January 8, 2026 at 3:39 PM
streetsoul.bsky.social
Honored in Bronze, Ignored in Practice
#streetphotography #monochromephotography #blackandwhitephoto #urbanmonuments #publicsculpture #statuephotography #leicam10monochrom #urbanhistory #quietpower #documentaryphotography #leicastreet #monochromemood #streetminimalism #philadelphia
January 7, 2026 at 12:46 AM
medievalists.bsky.social
Explore trade, governance, and people in the towns of the Middle Ages—start today! 🔧🏘️ medievalstudies.thinkific.com/courses/urban #urbanhistory
Urban Europe: Towns and Cities in the Middle Ages
The rise of cities in the European Middle Ages in different countries and cultures. Learn about the similarities of life and struggles of ordinary townsfolk, job opportunities, everyday lives and the…
medievalstudies.thinkific.com
December 30, 2025 at 9:17 PM
urbanhistory.bsky.social
📣 New #OpenAccess article

🏮 Margo Buelens-Terryn, Ilja Van Damme and @thomassmits.bsky.social, 'Projecting cities: illustrated lantern lectures as forgotten practice of place promotion in Belgium, c. 1900 – c. 1920'

🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096... #UrbanHistory
Title and abstract for the linked article
December 18, 2025 at 3:55 PM
whatsontheshelf.bsky.social
vintage pharmacy in Knez Mihailova Street, where time seems to slow down. Wooden shelves, glass jars create an atmosphere of old Belgrade

istockphoto.com/portfolio/Pand…#Vintageg#Pharmacyc#Belgraded#KnezMihailovav#OldBelgraded#Apothecaryr#Heritageg#CityDetailsl#Serbiai#UrbanHistoryry
December 17, 2025 at 6:55 PM
biblicaljournal.bsky.social
Archaeologists have rediscovered the 2,500 year old Egyptian city of Imet in the eastern Nile Delta, revealing rare multistory mudbrick tower houses and dense urban life once hidden beneath farmland.

#Archaeology #AncientEgypt #NileDelta #LostCities #Egyptology #UrbanHistory
Archaeologists rediscover a 2,500-year-old Egyptian ghost city
The lost city of Imet rises from the Nile Delta, with 2,500-year-old mud houses that stood like skyscrapers in ancient Egypt.
www.earth.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:24 AM
lassetur.bsky.social
Architecture, Tallinn.
An older Soviet-era building. Solid, functional, and uncompromising in its form — architecture shaped by ideology, time, and necessity rather than aesthetics.

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#Architecture #Tallinn #SovietArchitecture #UrbanHistory #Estonia #lassetur
December 13, 2025 at 1:28 PM
krogcodexofficial.bsky.social
#gsu #statenotsouthern #krogtunnel #krogstreettunnel #atlantagraffiti #tagsandthrows #graffiti #cabbagetown #inmanpark #urbanhistory
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March 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
citizenstate.bsky.social
Forgotten utopias remind us that success lies in adaptability. The strongest structures—and societies—aren’t flawless from the start but evolve with those who shape them. In their ruins, we find echoes of dreams and lessons for the future. #Architecture #UrbanHistory www.meer.com/en/87872-for...
Forgotten utopias: abandoned architectural visions
The untold stories of architecture’s most ambitious dreams
www.meer.com
March 2, 2025 at 9:18 AM
adam-dixon.bsky.social
Happy 61st birthday @trafficintowns.bsky.social ! It's a pleasure of mine to own a copy and there are still paragraphs we can learn a lot from today!

#trafficintowns #transporthistory #urbanhistory #history #modernism #architecture #urbanplanning
Traffic in towns report It's out today... the Buchanan Report - 224 pages about you and your car
November 25, 2024 at 9:17 AM
andyinfrance2.bsky.social
St John's Hotel, Queen's Road & Maple Street, Hull, 1865 and 1904 hullarchiteecture.wordpress.com/2026/01/18/s... #Hull
#UKTravel
#Yorkshire
#VisitHull
#ExploreHull
#BritishArchitecture
#OldBuildings
#UrbanHistory
#HiddenEngland
#HistoricHull
#HullHistory
#YorkshireHistory
#philiplarkin
#UKpubs
St John’s Hotel, Queen’s Road & Maple Street, Hull, 1865 and 1904
Also known as the St John’s Hotel, this public house on Maple Street dates from 1865 and was extensively remodelled inside in 1904 for the Hull Brewery, with only minor changes later in the 20th ce…
hullarchiteecture.wordpress.com
January 18, 2026 at 6:25 PM