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Samuel Rosenberg

…populations with intersecting poverties, he created emotional urban landscapes that ensured Pittsburgh’s place in the American regionalist art movement.Rosenberg’s focus was the Hill District, where he lived as a young…

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Vaquita and Other Stories

…Right Thing Right. “And I’m drawn to heat: sweltering Central American cities; a steamy soup kitchen; Jerusalem in midsummer; the rekindled passion of an old historian; the steady fire of…

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Plans, Pragmatism, and People

|9780822961062|The Legacy of Soviet Planning for Today’s Cities||||…

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No Heaven

…to wrestle with the world as it is: “no hell below us, / above us only sky.” It is a world of cities, including New York, London, Jerusalem, and Berlin,…

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The Turning Points of Environmental History

…the use and abuse of the earth’s land in the development of agriculture, commercial forestry, and in the battle against desertification in arid and semi-arid regions. Cities, which first appeared…

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