During the rise of New York from the capital of an upstart nation to a global metropolis, the
visual language of Greek and Roman antiquity played a formative role in the development of …

Adapting cities for climate resilience is crucial as climate change increases the frequency
and severity of extreme weather events. This study outlines a comprehensive set of …

Experts are heralding the “end of the combustion engine” as automobile manufacturers plan
to switch to electric-only production in coming decades, and countries around the world set …

Uncover the Magick Hidden Between the Sidewalk Cracks Engage with the urban
landscape around you and harness its boundless possibilities for a thriving magickal …

The project “Spaces—Communities—Representations: Urban Transformations in the USA”
was the first cooperative research project by the American Studies and American History …

Doctor Johnson is said to have offered the response used as this chapter's epigraph in
defense of composing an epitaph in Latin (and not in English) to honor the Irish poet and …

This thesis focuses on how the city of Chicago was transformed through architectural
innovations between 1850 to the present day. I will explore how the designs of skyscrapers …

Empirically speaking, contemporary urban US America is a space that makes up just about
3% of the national territory, though it is the home of more than 80% of the population. i This …

Abstract Mary Hoyt Halavais considers the meaning of “home” for the people of sixteenth-
century Spain. Home, she argues, was not a political or territorial entity to which one was …

This chapter examines a recent cartographic experiment whose ambition is to foster a sense
of locational identity. Rebecca Solnit's Infinite City. A San Francisco Atlas (2010) revisits the …