Urban History Association (the official account)
If you're into cities and their histories, then you're into the Urban History Association!
- New on the blog! Dan Holland on Pittsburgh's battle to defeat racially discriminatory housing in the 1950s
- New on the blog! The eighth and final post in our January collaboration with @nichecanada.bsky.social; Andrew Watson's "Feeding, Fueling, and Building the Foundations of Toronto: Sources for Exploring Historic Urban Metabolism"
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- New on the blog! The 7th post in our January collaboration with @nichecanada.bsky.social; @sarabpritchard.bsky.social with "Urban Nightscapes and the Anthropocene"
- New on the blog! The sixth post in our January partnership with @nichecanada.bsky.social; Yohad Zacarías S. on electrical infrastructure in Chile:
- New on the blog! The fifth entry in our January partnership with @nichecanada.bsky.social; John Bessai's "Reading the City Through Countermonuments of Ecology: From Mistaseni to Floodlines"
- New on the blog! The 4th entry in our January partnership with @nichecanada.bsky.social; Carmen Gilmore on species loss in Saskatoon: themetropole.blog/2026/01/15/r... #envhist
- Our colleagues at SACRPH are launching the Alison Isenberg Dissertation Colloquium, to be held in conjunction with their National Conference on Planning History, in Cincinnati, Ohio. To learn more and to apply, click here: themetropole.blog/2026/01/14/c...
- 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
- New on the blog! The next installment of our partnership with @nichecanada.bsky.social: Jaida Johnson on sidewalks as environmental thresholds: themetropole.blog/2026/01/08/t... #envhist #urbanhistory
- Happy New Year! We're hitting the ground running with the first post in our January collaboration with @nichecanada.bsky.social; @clairecampbell.bsky.social on the built coastal environment in Saint John West: themetropole.blog/2026/01/05/f... #envhist #urbanhistory
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- Metropole senior editor, @ryanreft.bsky.social looks back on 9 years at the helm as he departs: "[T]hat’s how I feel about The Metropole. It’s a ship at sea for all those who want to come aboard–climb the ladder. “We’ve got ourselves/Gonna sing it, gonna love it, gonna work it out at any length.”
- Reposted by Urban History Association (the official account)Here it is, the final regular #ScholarSunday thread of 2025, my 255th thread of great public scholarly writing, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, please share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
- Congrats to @austinmccoy.bsky.social, as Gen X, Native Tongues (A Tribe Called Quest, Prince Paul, and especially De La Soul remain among my favorite hip hop groups) holds a special place in my heart. We gave the book a brief but joyous shout out in our Best of 2025 (I know it's not out yet!)
- "Media comes at us so fast nowadays, and along with the fragmentation of culture that has accompanied the increasing pace of society, it become much too easy to miss great works, be they film, television, or books. Our senior editors offer a few thoughts on older works they discovered this year."
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- Departing senior editor @ryanreft.bsky.social offers up a few of his favorite musical choices for 2025 as our Best of 2025 rolls on: themetropole.blog/2025/12/11/t...
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- "In sum, Guariglia’s book is an important contribution to the history of policing, setting a standard about how to highlight the crucial role of race and ethnicity for future research." @sarahfren.bsky.social on @mguariglia.bsky.social's Police and the Empire City
- "Unlike an album or a film, it takes more than two hours to read and fully absorb a book. All this is to say our Best Books of 2025 may really the best books we read in 2025 that were published in the last three months or three years, but that is an awkward heading."
- "While streaming has diffused offerings across platforms – we don’t have 20 million people watching Seinfeld weekly on NBC anymore – there’s no shortage of great television. Our senior editors took a pass and provide you with the best shows they caught this year." Not asked for, yet delivered.
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- Our senior editors took a pass at their favorite films of 2025, did you need this? Probably not but then again why not?! themetropole.blog/2025/12/04/t...
- A discussion between Colin Wood and Father Stephen M. Koeth about Catholicism, cities, and suburbanization with a big dollop of Kenneth Jackson themetropole.blog/2025/12/03/c...
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- “As with many long-term urban planning projects, and the delicate balance between preservation and progress, Tokyo confronts an identity crisis that is fundamentally an iteration of the same tensions that marked Japan’s entrance into modernity”
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- "Why Nothing Works is a plea for progressives to zoom out for a second and register that their own ideology is more complex and, in many cases, contradictory." The Metropole sat down with Marc J. Dunkelman to discuss his 2025 book Why Nothin Works and its relationship to urban history.
- "Emerging as first a savior, and later the man responsible for driving the city deeper into economic despair, was a charismatic politician with a penchant for sweets and cigarettes named Larry Langford." David Bruno on Birmingham's failed attempts and rebranding. themetropole.blog/2025/11/18/i...
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- For us midwestern folk, Wisconsin Dells occupies a storied place in our summer vacations, but it has come at a cost as the tourist attraction has been devouring water in the region and obscuring other worthy forms of tourism around the Dells. Matthew King's deep dive (zing!) into the Dells
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- "One context certainly not shared by all cities from which urban rebellion sprang during the 1960s was the disruption caused by the construction of massive stadiums, arenas, and athletic complexes dedicated to the consumption of sports." Clif Stratton kicks of Metropolitan Consumption month
- We kick off our theme month for November 2025, Metropolitan Consumption. A short intro to set the table:
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- 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:
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- After an excellent #UHALA2025 BIG THANKS to: Program Comm co-chairs: James Zarsadiaz & Jerry Gonzalez Local Arrangements Comm co-chairs: Becky Nicolaides & @elewinnek.bsky.social UHA President A.K. Sandoval-Strausz All of our student volunteers, And not least, Executive Director Daniela Sheinin!
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- Reposted by Urban History Association (the official account)If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
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- The #UHA2025LA conference today included excellent tour of the historically #Black neighborhood of Belmar & LA's iconic #musclebeach with historians Elsa Devienne @elsadevienne.bsky.social & Alison Rose Jefferson. A deeply informative, engaging morning! Thank you Elsa & Alison! #LosAngeles #history
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- Some highlights from the #UHA2025LA #instagram #stories feed! www.instagram.com/urbanhistory... #urbanhist #planninghist #energyhist #envhist #Biltmore #LosAngeles
- historians: food4thought—have the panels at #UHA2025LA exemplified the validity of the below claim? Or have they revealed it as a promising but unreachable fallacy? ➡️In other words “can we start over?”A key Q to consider given the complexity of what it means to renew or begin again in #urban env’s
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- There's still a chance to visit the digital projects exhibit in the #GoldRoom! Here are the exhibits that remain this Saturday! #UHA2025LA 12:30-2pm: ➤ @ansleyerickson.bsky.social, #NYC #CivilRights #History Project ➤ Carmelo Ignaccolo, #Living #Heritage #Atlas | Beirut dusp.mit.edu/people/carme...
- James Rojas leads a tour of East L.A. on "Lost Chicano Urban Design,” including stops at Mariachi Plaza and Belvedere Park (pictured here), ending with a delicious lunch at El Mercado de Los Angeles (not pictured here…) #UHA2025LA
- A brilliant Saturday in LA #LAArtsDistrict #UHA2025LA
- Happening in one hour at 11:30am ! #UHA2025LA
- This morning we're featuring the *Summer in the City: Urban Heat in the Past, Present & Future* panel Head to the Roman rm from 8-9:30pm to learn about how urban historians are addressing hot topics like— #climatechange —& the interconnected histories of the body, health & leisure & climate control
- #UHA2025LA closing out the banquet, we are moving into the awards ceremony! Check out this year’s book, article, and dissertation award winners here! www.urbanhistory.org/2025awardwin... and be sure to raise a glass!
