Search

Urban Conversations: "Space City: The Planetary History of Houston"

Event

Urban Conversations Speaker: Jonathan Levy In conversation with Bruno Carvalho. About the Event Ever since the first awareness of global warming, one of the fastest growing US metropolitan areas has been Houston, Texas, capital of the global oil economy...

DRCLAS: Grassroots Urbanism: Participatory Urban Planning in Post-WWII São Paulo

Event

Speaker: Marcio Siwi, College Fellow in Latin American History, History Department, Harvard University This presentation examines the understudied role of popular neighborhood associations in the rise of participatory urban planning in São Paulo. Often...

Urban History

Page

Radcliffe Conference: Intersections: Understanding Urbanism in the Global Age

Event

Intersections: Understanding Urbanism in the Global Age Friday, April 28 | 9 AM–5 PM Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge MA Urbanism is a global phenomenon that presents a range of pressing...

Panel Discussion with Harvey Molotch and Davide Ponzini, co-authors of “The New Arab Urban: Gulf Cities of Wealth, Ambition, and Distress”

Event

Panel: Harvey Molotch , Emeritus Professor, New York University Davide Ponzini , Professor, Politecnico di Milano Neil Brenner , Professor of Urban Theory, Harvard Graduate School of Design Rosie Bsheer , Professor of History, Harvard University Bish...

Inventing Urban Futures: Lessons from Three Centuries of City-making

Event

Inventing Urban Futures: Lessons from Three Centuries of City-making Thursday, April 9, 2026 at 12:00 p.m. EST at the Bloomberg Center for Cities, Taubman Third Floor, Harvard Kennedy School As cities face rapid change and growing uncertainty, questions...

Environmental Histories of Europe Seminar: "Tiny Gardens Everywhere"

Event

Speaker: Kate Brown Thomas M. Siebel Distinguished Professor in History of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Chair: Nikolas Weyland Ph.D. Student in History, Harvard University; Graduate Student Affiliate & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg...

Teotihuacan: Origins, Urbanism, and Daily Life

Event

David M. Carballo, Professor of Anthropology, Archaeology, and Latin American Studies, Boston University Teotihuacan, one of the largest cities in the world over 1,500 years ago, stands today as a premier archaeological site and a powerful symbol of...

Warren Center: Excerpt of “Urban Legends: Representing the South Bronx in Ruin and Reality,” (work in progress) - Peter L’Official

Event

Peter L’Official (Harvard University). Excerpt of “Urban Legends: Representing the South Bronx in Ruin and Reality,” (work in progress). Presented by the Workshop on Multimedia History and Literature: New Directions in Scholarly Design. Download the...

Business History Fall 2018 Seminars: Business and Urban Development: "A City on a Lake: Urban Political Ecology and the Growth of Mexico City"

Event

SPEAKER Matthew Vitz, UC San Diego Open to the public Reception at conclusion

Three History Concentrators joining cohort of Harvard Teacher Fellows this spring

News

Congratulations to three History concentrators— Alicia Hamilton (’18), August Stover (’18), and Harrison Wexner (’15), who are joining Cohort 3 of the Harvard Teacher Fellows this spring! We’re excited to announce that The Harvard Teacher Fellows (HTF) is...

1933 Literature and Urban History: Views from Brazil and the Unived States

Class

Prof. Sidney Chalhoub & Bruno Carvalho ~ Wednesdays 12:45-2:45