Category: Urban Life

Esittelin viime vuonna vision tehdä rakastamastani Kallion alueesta aiempaakin mukavamman paikan asua. Poikkeusaikojen puristuksessa kirkastui ajatus muokata alueen vilkkaimmat kadut Porthaninkatu, Fleminginkatu, Vaasankatu ja Hämeentie sekä niiden väliset aukiot selkeämmin kaikille avoimiksi kaupunkitiloiksi. Kävely- ja ihmisystävällisempinä kaduista ja aukioista muodostuisi rengasmainen vyöhyke, jolla olisi valtava potentiaali toimia ihmisiä ja kaupunkikulttuuria yhteen tuovana valtasuonena. Alue kattaisi…

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“Pyromania is an impulse control disorder in which individuals repeatedly fail to resist impulses to deliberately start fire.” . . . Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gifted it to humanity, for which he was punished by Zeus. Chained to a rock, he had his liver eaten by eagles each day, only for it…

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It has been eight months since my last post here on Blogger and that entry was just to let folks know my web-designer, Chris Deatherage, had made changes to my website.  Prior to that posting I had become very sporadic in publishing my blog posts which was out of characer for me. For after years of being very dedicated…

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Thank you for your interest in participating in the 2018 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service! This event support community gardens throughout Waco and celebrates the legacy of Dr. King in making a difference in our communities. Every individual volunteer must complete a registration form. If you are registering family members, please have each adult…

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 By Guest blogger: Urban Ag Ambassador, Julia Featheringill It would be impossible to sum up in one blog post the totality of my amazing experience this spring and summer with the Urban Ag Ambassador program and my volunteer work with the Somerville Community Growing Center. Promptly after I graduated from the Urban Ag program I…

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As its collection of push pin holes suggest, this note has been pinned to the bulletin board above my desk for the past, oh, I don’t know how how many years. It’s a reference to something I learned in graduate school from Wayne Lawson, then Executive Director of the Ohio Arts Council. The idea was,…

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Ah, the sweet cherry blossoms are bursting forth!You have to look closely in this photo, but the branch closest to the camera suffered in the great fire of 2017 that took out my mulberry tree and beekeeping shed. This cherry tree was growing next to the shed and, post-fire, had black limbs. I trimmed those…

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To mark the publication of new contributions to our Cambridge Elements in Global Urban History series, we will feature interviews with authors and share short excerpts from their work. Here, GUHP Blog associate editor Maytal Mark interviews Katherine Zubovich, the author of Making Cities Socialist. Katherine Zubovich is Associate Professor of History at the University…

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Los Angeles’ Arts District is densely packed with murals from some of the biggest names in contemporary urban art. It’s a must see if you’re interested in art of any sort, but essential for anyone with even the smallest interest in street art. The district is, as the name suggests, one of LA’s creative hubs…

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Victoria Harbour with Hong Kong Island in the background, c.1862. Unknown artist. We are excited to announce the tentative programme for our conference ‘Port Cities in Comparative Global History: Potentials and Issues‘ which takes place in Hong Kong on the 15th and 16th June 2023. The event is funded by the History Department and Modern…

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