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Comments on MetaFilter post "Every city is an urban palimpsest"Tue, 15 Jul 2003 12:06:38 -0800Tue, 15 Jul 2003 12:06:38 -0800en-ushttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss60"Every city is an urban palimpsest"
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The wonderful online history journal <a href="http://common-place.org/">Common-Place </a>is presenting a special issue entitled <strong><a href="http://common-place.org/vol-03/no-04/talk/">"Early Cities of the Americas."</a></strong> Nineteen essays, each concerning a particular incident, person, place or encounter in the early life of a city, together provide a "worm's eye view" of what urban life was like in early postcolonial North and South America. Learn about vigilante justice and press sensationalism in 1856 <a href="http://common-place.org/vol-03/no-04/san-francisco/">San Francisco</a>, or about a day in the life of a peasant family in <a href="http://common-place.org/vol-03/no-04/lima/">Lima</a> of the 1760s. Other essays concern the 17th-century "treasure city" of <a href="http://common-place.org/vol-03/no-04/havana/">Havana</a>, searching for salvation as a slave in 1647 <a href="http://common-place.org/vol-03/no-04/new-york/">New Amsterdam (New York)</a>, and capital punishment in colonial <a href="http://common-place.org/vol-03/no-04/paramaribo/">Paramaribo</a>, Suriname. "Reading these essays cannot but help readers gain some historical perspective on the modern condition," especially as you see how many of the issues we associate with modern urban life (poverty, crime, <a href="http://common-place.org/vol-03/no-04/boston/">bowling?</a>) are not exactly recent developments.post:www.metafilter.com,2003:site.26998Tue, 15 Jul 2003 11:47:45 -0800arcocitiesurbanlifeSanFranciscoLimaHavanaNewAmstersdamNewYorkParamariboBy: weston
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Awesome post, arco.comment:www.metafilter.com,2003:site.26998-519054Tue, 15 Jul 2003 12:06:38 -0800westonBy: widdershins
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Ooh, way cool. Bookmarking to leisurely peruse when time permits. Thx, arco!comment:www.metafilter.com,2003:site.26998-519058Tue, 15 Jul 2003 12:09:20 -0800widdershinsBy: iconomy
http://www.metafilter.com/26998/Every-city-is-an-urban-palimpsest#519071
Yes, this is excellent, arco. The story of <a href="http://common-place.org/vol-03/no-04/philadelphia/">William Moraley</a>,"voluntary slave", is most interesting.
I like the old maps - wish there were larger scans available to see more detail.comment:www.metafilter.com,2003:site.26998-519071Tue, 15 Jul 2003 12:16:36 -0800iconomyBy: languagehat
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Fantastic post. (I second iconomy in wistfully wishing for larger map views.)comment:www.metafilter.com,2003:site.26998-519227Tue, 15 Jul 2003 15:43:49 -0800languagehatBy: Aaaugh!
http://www.metafilter.com/26998/Every-city-is-an-urban-palimpsest#519552
A great place to view detailed historic urban maps is the <a href="http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/cityhome.html">map collection</a> of the Library of Congress's American Memory Project.comment:www.metafilter.com,2003:site.26998-519552Wed, 16 Jul 2003 07:12:15 -0800Aaaugh!
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