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@historyachannel.bsky.social Oct 16, 2026, 6:00 PM

Byzantium was founded by Megarian colonists around 667 BC, strategically settling the peninsula overlooking the Golden Horn and Bosporus. This site would go on to control vital trade routes for centuries. #UrbanHistory #AncientHistory

@sociammulb.bsky.social Oct 14, 2026, 9:32 AM

📆 NOV-DÉC 2026 | Conférences "La carte postale comme outil d'étude des transformations urbaines de la Belle Époque"
📍2/11 #Schaerbeek: bit.ly/4yD0yjG 📍19/11 #Bruxelles-Ville: bit.ly/4evNm7Q 📍13/12 #Molenbeek: bit.ly/4yoJvAS #skystorians #histoireurbaine #patrimoine #cartepostale #urbanhistory

@westendmuseum.bsky.social Oct 13, 2026, 11:01 PM

We're a week away from session two of our two-part book club. Join us for both sessions, or just one! Reserve your spot here + get reading! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1999035039616?aff=oddtdtcreator

#TheWestEndMuseum #BookClub #UrbanHistory

@historyachannel.bsky.social Oct 13, 2026, 4:00 PM

While the Crusaders captured Jerusalem in 1099, the Holy Sepulchre wasn't built as a fortification. Its iconic architecture evolved through major 12th-century Romanesque renovations, not hasty construction. A fascinating mix of history and faith. #UrbanHistory #Jerusalem

@historyachannel.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 6:00 PM

In October 1871, the Great Chicago Fire broke out. When it was put out two days later, it had leveled over 3 square miles and left about 100,000 residents homeless, forever changing the city's urban planning and fire safety codes. #UrbanHistory

@historyachannel.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 6:00 PM

The John Hancock Center rose in 1969, an X-braced brute of steel dominating Chicago’s skyline. Its heavy, dark profile discarded the ornamental pretense of older towers, asserting a raw structural honesty over the lakefront wind. #UrbanHistory

@stadsplanering.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 2:55 PM

#UrbanHistory #MasterPlanning #UrbanStructure #HumanHistory

@cordobaluis.eurosky.social Oct 9, 2026, 12:42 PM

NYC’s subterranean heartbeat Motion and iron at Grand Central timeless rush of the Metro-North
#nycphotography #railway #underground #nyc #grandcentral #mta #streetphotography #blackandwhite #metronorth #infrastructure #architecture #photojournalism #motionblur #urbanhistory #luiscordobapharchive

Horizontal orientation, black and white candid photograph capturing a busy underground platform at Grand Central Terminal, New York City. The scene features two parked Metro-North commuter trains with visible MTA branding and car numbers 33 and 32. Commuters are walking on the platform; dynamic motion blur captures people moving quickly in the foreground, including a figure carrying a large bag. Overhead, distinct linear fluorescent lighting illuminates the concrete structure, exposed piping, and suspended lit signage with legible text, including a Reuters advertisement. The depth of field extends down the platform, emphasizing the vanishing point created by the trains and architectural lines. High contrast rendering defines textures of metal, concrete, and clothing. Optimized for urban photography, photojournalism, architectural history, MTA infrastructure, and NYC tourism indexing.

@uoftpress.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 8:00 PM

In the new issue of Urban History Review (54.2) discover how #Toronto mosques moved from marginal, improvised sites to the downtown core, and how plans from the 1940s to 1960s shaped urban renewal in Rideau Heights, #Kingston. #UrbanHistory

Read now: bit.ly/UHR_542

@uoftpress.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 2:15 PM

#CallforPapers! Urban History Review / Revue d'histoire urbaine invites submissions for peer-reviewed research on the history of urban Canada. Rolling submissions, published twice yearly. Submit: https://bit.ly/3TvTBBy

#UrbanHistory #CanadianHistory

@utexaspress.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 5:00 PM

Available now: utpress.utexas.edu/9...

#UrbanHistory #MexicoCity #UrbanPlanning

@onslies.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 7:32 AM

ah, this is going to be SO GOOD! And we're luring Aditya Chakrabortty to Mile End!

Do join if you've got even just a passing interest in #SocialHistory, #BritishHistory, #UrbanHistory, history of photography, or a bunch of cool brains in one room. #SkyStorians

How do we write histories of small towns in the post-1945 period? Towns such as Halifax in the Calder Valley feature little in an otherwise thriving historiography of contemporary Britain. Yet for an earlier generation of social historian, most notably E. P. Thompson, who wrote The Making of the English Working Class while living there, such towns were crucial to understanding the processes of industrialisation and capitalist modernity. How can we include such places in more purposeful narratives of the more recent past? How do we write inclusive histories of belonging for the residents of these towns that do not consign them to being ‘left behind’, as though their histories are only considered to explain their ‘unmaking’ and marginalisation: towards an overdetermined present of post-Brexit Britain, flags and Reform?

@westendmuseum.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 11:01 PM

We're a week away from session one of our two-part book club. Join us for both sessions, or just one! Reserve your spot here + get reading! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1999035039616?aff=oddtdtcreator

#TheWestEndMuseum #BookClub #UrbanHistory

@historyachannel.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 5:00 PM

The stone fortifications of Jerusalem were breached and refitted in 1099, marking a violent shift in the city's defensive grid. The heavy masonry reflects a desperate need for perimeter control over its winding, narrow alleys. Architecture serves the blade here. #UrbanHistory

@robertcfried.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 9:53 AM

#NYCRats #RatProblem #NewYorkCity #UrbanWildlife #RodentControl #NYCSanitation #TrashTalk #RatCzar #CityRats #BrownRats #RatsOfNYC #NYCHistory #UrbanHistory #PortCity #PublicHealth #PestControl #IntegratedPestManagement #GarbageManagement #ContainerizedTrash #OutdoorDining #RatSightings #RatBurrows

@emodir.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 7:42 AM

#CfP 📢 13th AISU Congress: “The Wounded City. Urban Spaces as Sites of Conflict, Life, and Memory”, Associazione Italiana di Storia Urbana

📆 7–10 Sept 2027 | 🌍 Genoa (It)
⏰ 18 Oct 2026
🔗 aisuinternational.org/genova-2027-home

#UrbanHistory #UrbanStudies #MemoryStudies

@urbanhistory.bsky.social Sep 29, 2026, 9:45 AM

📣 New #OpenAccess article

🌊 David Beckingham and @radishington.bsky.social, 'Governing an urban river: the Leen and the making of modern Nottingham, 1696–1973'

🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096... #UrbanHistory

Title and abstract for the linked article

@nichecanada.bsky.social Sep 28, 2026, 8:34 PM

"As social historians like Mariana Valverde and Karen Dubinsky have shown, being from places considered “dirty” carries a number of derogatory and gendered connotations." - Amanda Robinson

niche-canada.org/2015/09/18/h...

#envhist #cdnhist #urbanhistory #class

@historyachannel.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 9:00 PM

The Petronas Towers topped out in Kuala Lumpur in 1996, pushing steel and glass into the humid sky. César Pelli’s geometric design redefined the skyline, signaling a shift toward rapid, hyper-dense verticality in Southeast Asia. #UrbanHistory