Cities/Urban & Rural

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horseshoe shape made up of people
From College Towns into Knowledge Towns: On the Future of Town/Gown Relations
Cover of The Chiefs Now in This City: Indians and the Urban Frontier in Early America by Colin Calloway.
Native Americans in Urban Places
A rainbow version of the Ohio City neighborhood flag.
Gay is Good for Business: LGBTQ Rights and the Economic Development of America’s Cities and Suburbs
A French Quarter Pontalba Row building.
A Postcard from New Orleans, Louisiana
The other side of The Shore, depicting the Maritime House, third from the left. The former headquarters of the National Seamen’s Union are now flats.
A Postcard from Leith, Scotland
In 2014, the debate about the underlying causes of "long, hot summers" remerged with the high-profile police killings of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, and others.
Long Hot Summers and Separate Societies
protests by the Yellow Vest movement
France at the Barricades, 1934
The colorful buildings of Tirana, viewed from the steps of the National Museum.
A Postcard from Tirana: Overcoming the Past
Iceberg, St. Lunaire.
A Postcard from Newfoundland
A map of the US night sky, showing points of population density
Fault Lines: The Urban-Rural Divide in America
Minaret Islam Khoja in Khiva
A Postcard from Khiva, Uzbekistan
George Holliday's footage of Rodney King being beaten by police in 1991
The 1992 Los Angeles Rebellion: “No Justice, No Peace”
Church and belltower at Usol’e.
A Postcard from the Ural Mountains
The Terra Cotta Warriors: Xi’an’s most famous attraction
A Postcard from Xi’an: Balancing Past and Future
Chartwell, the country estate of Winston Churchill
By Invitation Only
The almshouse at Woburn, Bedfordshire, England
Top Ten Origins: Housing the Poor
Marshall "Major" Taylor was a professional African American cyclist
(Bicycle) Wheels of Change
HyperCities Website Header with logo.
5/18/2015: Best in History Online: Hypercities
Harry Beck’s London Underground Railway map, designed in 1931 and released to the public in 1933.
All Aboard!: A Train Ride through the British Twentieth Century in 100 Maps
Genoa Park along the west bank of the Scioto River in Columbus, Ohio, United States
12/29/2014: Cities of the Future
The last Soviet forces leave Afghanistan via Friendship Bridge in February of 1989
What They Left Behind: The Soviet Union in Afghanistan
Book Cover of Americans Against the City: Anti-Urbanism in the Twentieth Century By: Steven Conn
Hot off the Presses: Americans vs. the City
The Nature of Childhood: An Environmental History of Growing Up in America since 1865 Book Cover
Play, Paranoia, and American Childhood in the Great Outdoors
The New York Times Article, "The 'Boys' in the Bunkhouse" Cover Photo
3/11/14: History through People, "The 'Boys' in the Bunkhouse"