Cities in History

Episode 6: Havana

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 23:24:46 +0100

Further reading:

Dick Cluster and Rafael Hernández, The History of Havana

Graham Greene, Our Man in Havana

Fri, 27 May 2011 12:59:31 +0200

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Mon, 16 May 2011 18:48:09 +0200

Further reading:

Rita Felski, The Gender of Modernity, Harvard University Press, 1995.

Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson, ‘The Flâneur on and Off the Streets of Paris’, in The Flâneur, ed. Keith Tester; Routledge, 1994.

Thu, 05 May 2011 16:34:01 +0200

Further reading:

Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life

Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space

Henri Lefebvre, Writings on Cities

Sun, 28 Nov 2010 00:25:00 +0100

This episode discusses the work of Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin.

Further reading:

Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project, Harvard University Press

Sun, 12 Sep 2010 15:57:00 +0200

The Chicago School of urban sociology have been tremendously influential in the study of cities. This episode discusses some aspects of their work.

Further reading:

M. P. Smith, The City and Social Theory, New York, 1979

Peter Saunders, Social Theory and the Urban Question, London, 1981

Robert Park, E.W.Burgess, R.D.McKenzie, The City: Suggestions for the Study of Human Nature in the Urban Environment, Chicago, 1925

Richard Sennett (ed), Classic Essays on the Culture of Cities, New York, 1969

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 21:48:00 +0200

Welcome to the Cities in History site. This will be a regular podcast discussing different aspects of urban history.

The first episode was recorded on Friday. I introduce some of the themes of the series, and I look forward to listener suggestions for future topics.