Eric Häusler
@eric_haeusler
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Book Review Series Editor for The Metropole. Research Project: World Cities in the Making: Past Urban Futures in Tokyo and New York in the 1960s.
Zurich, Switzerland
Joined February 2010
Publication day: “How Cities Become Brands: Developing City Brands Purposefully and Thoughtfully” is out now! It was great fun working with @JuergenHaeusler as co-author. Thank you @springer1842 and Rolf-Günther Hobbeling.
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RT @UrbanHistoryA: In his new book, Randol Contreras follows the lives of ex-gang members "through prison sentences, drug addiction, home….
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Randol Contreras. The Marvelous Ones: Drugs, Gang Violence, and Resistance in East Los Angeles. Oakland: University of California Press, 2024. By Dianne Violeta Mausfeld East Los Angeles is an unin…
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RT @VersoBooks: It's never too late to join the The Jameson Reading Group, a free program coordinated in partnership with @PublicBooks and….
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Each month this reading group selects a key text or problematic from Fredric Jameson’s work and reads about 100 pages together. We meet in a large Zoom meeting to hear from a scholar, writer, or...
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RT @nycrecords: Discover the story behind the names on the streets in your neighborhood! With @nycrecords’ new interactive map, you can exp….
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RT @UrbanHistoryA: "Goodwin is sympathetic toward his eccentric subject, but he retains the critical distance needed to explore Lovecraft’….
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David J. Goodwin. Midnight Rambles: H. P. Lovecraft in Gotham. New York: Fordham University Press, 2023. Reviewed by Peter C. Baldwin The horror fiction of Howard Phillips Lovecraft, which sends de…
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Vielen Dank auch an das Team bei @transcriptweb für die wunderbare Zusammenarbeit auf dem Weg zur Publikation!.
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Laut Margrit Schulte Beerbühl bietet mein Buch "Ökonomisches Scheitern" eine "bedeutsame Erweiterung der bisherigen Forschungslandschaft, die auch neue Forschungsperspektiven eröffnet.” Vielen Dank für die anregende Rezension!
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RT @UrbanHistoryA: "Can design be a tool to address climate change, rising inequality, and the spread of right-wing populism?" Just one que….
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Vishaan Chakrabarti. The Architecture Of Urbanity: Designing For Nature, Culture And Joy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2024. Reviewed by Dasha Kuletskaya Can architects and other desi…
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RT @histandtheojrnl: #ArticleSnapshot📸: Our September 2024 issue includes Zoltán Boldizsár Simon (@zoltanbsimon) and Marek Tamm's "The Open….
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With a touch of irony, the project-closing piece of the “Historical Futures” collective research endeavor pulls together the threads of its four years of explorative work by showcasing an opening of...
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RT @UrbanHistoryA: .@kane_genna kicks off GSB2024 digging deeper than the Big Dig: "During the age of industrial capitalism, Bostonians rec….
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This piece is an entry in our Eighth Annual Graduate Student Blogging Contest, “Connections.” by Genna Kane Bostonians grumbled and complained when the Sumner Tunnel closed again in the…
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RT @UrbanHistoryA: It's September and time for the 8th annual Grad Student Blog Contest, assistant editor @AngelaStiefbold kicks us off wit….
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It is September, and here at The Metropole that means it is time to publish entries to the Graduate Student Blogging Contest. Now in its eighth year, the contest is intended to encourage students t…
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From "Dutch Beginnings and Native Americans" to the present day, this richly illustrated book offers a fascinating history of Harlem. Please check out the review on The Metropole.
In her new book, historian @davidasiwisa explores the history of Upper Manhattan neighborhoods through the architecture, architects, and residents of Harlem, Hamilton Heights, and Sugar Hill, writes historian @McGruderKevin in his review of her new book:
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RT @UrbanHistoryA: Following @DrMikeAmezcua and Andrew Sandoval Strausz (among others), Nov 2024 is dedicated to the impact of Latinx Amer….
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Blog Policies Sponsored Posts Thanks to the generosity of the Penn State Department of History, The Metropole is able to pay a $200 flat fee to contributors to 5 theme months in 2023-24. To receive…
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RT @SchomburgCenter: Tomorrow, August 2, is writer and activist James Baldwin's 100th birthday! Learn more about the special exhibitions,….
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Grateful to receive an SNSF return grant to continue 4.5 years of postdoc.Mobility research in Tokyo & NYC. I will work on my book "The Birth of the Urban Age: Tokyo and New York in the 1960s" & draw lessons from past urban futures for present urban futures at gta at ETH Zurich.
Sexual violence among primates, tides on Jupiter's moon Europa and cyber security: 201 postdoctoral researchers will benefit from Postdoc.Mobility fellowships to support their research abroad or their return to Switzerland.
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RT @DominiqueJL15: Just in time for apartment hunting season (and "putting together the syllabus for that urban history class you're teachi….
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RT @PlacesJournal: Looking for new books to read on architecture, landscapes and cities? This summer, we're launching "Bookshelf," a season….
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A seasonal roundup of brief book reviews on architecture, landscape, cities, and related subjects, featuring titles of interest to Places editors and contributing critics.
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Please take a look at this wonderful The Metropole review if you are interested in community-based scholarship, the history of New Orleans, union organizing, Black-led institution building, and/or the destructive power of a neoliberal education agenda.
"Much has been written about Katrina & New Orleans. The city offers a generative site for studies of disaster capitalism, environmental injustice, social movement history, and “Blues geographies,” . @dgcumming1 on the new book from Jesse Chanin:
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RT @leahfrombklyn: New Yorkers:. I’m collaborating with the @BKLYNlibrary on an initiative to lead a series of workshops on city planning….
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RT @UrbanHistoryA: The Green Book has been at the center of increasing efforts to document its history. @CatherineZipf, Anne E. Bruder and….
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During the summer of 2016, architectural historians Anne E. Bruder, Susan Hellman, and Catherine W. Zipf came together over their shared interest in documenting the history of The Negro Travelers’ …
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RT @AsadFromNYC: This is why we fund libraries: . Pick Up a Free James Baldwin Title in Celebration of His 100th Birthday | The New York Pu….
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The New York Public Library is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of James Baldwin one of our largest adult book giveaways!
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