Cities under Duress
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Archiv für Februar 2016
Conflict or Collaboration: Academic Medical Centers and Their Communities, A Commentary
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Real Estate and the City: Considering the History of Capitalism and Urban History
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„Bringing DNA into the Neighborhood“ in San Francisco: A Personal Recollection
Based primarily on personal experiences, this article aims to illustrate the troublesome relationship between the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and its adjoining neighborhoods from the 1960s to the present. Like other University of C…
Death and the City: Female Public Suicide and Meaningful Space in Modern Mexico City
Poised on the cusp of the twentieth century, many urban citizens believed their societies to be sickened by suicide epidemics. It was assumed that rapid modernization and technological advance caused some individuals to develop nervous conditions that…
Building the World That Kills Us: The Politics of Lead, Science, and Polluted Homes, 1970 to 2000
One of the most troubling urban health issues is childhood poisoning caused by lead, the widespread environmental toxin. It is in old plumbing fixtures, solder, paint and other building materials in huge quantities. Despite decades of improvements in …
Reimagining a Community: Worker Protest and Illicit Artisans in Early Seventeenth-Century Norwich
This essay examines a work stoppage that was planned by Norwich’s worsted weaver apprentices in 1610, but that never took place. In depositions taken after the plot was revealed, the apprentices told local authorities that their aim in leaving t…
„We Will Gladly Join You in Partnership in Harrisburg or We Will See You in Court“: The Growth of Large Not-for-Profits and Consequences of the „Eds and Meds“ Renaissance in the New Pittsburgh
In 1990, Mayor Sophie Masloff warned large not-for-profits, like the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), that unless they started making an increased financial contribution in the form of payments in lieu of taxes, or PILOTs, the City of P…
Urban History, the Slave Trade, and the Atlantic World 1500-1900
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„The University that Ate Birmingham“: The Healthcare Industry, Urban Development, and Neoliberalism
In Birmingham, Alabama, in 1987, a white conservative movement arose in opposition to build a new healthcare clinic in downtown through the use of eminent domain. Critics claimed the Kirklin Clinic reflected urban corruption and the privatization of t…