Tag: Urban history
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Dublin Street Traders Come Alive: A Book Review
Introduction: A Living Dublin Between Statues and Stalls In the latest examination of Dublin’s urban psyche, the street traders who once fed the city’s hunger and imagination take center stage. The book under review revisits the famed Molly Malone statue—not to scold a modern controversy, but to illuminate the everyday economies and cultural labor that…
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Alive-O: A Fresh Look at Dublin’s Street Traders Through a New Book
Introduction: Airing the Unsung Voices of Dublin Amid the recent uproar over the Molly Malone statue’s alleged groping, a quieter, more enduring conversation deserves attention: the living history of Dublin’s street traders. The new book, “Dublin’s street traders come alive, alive-O”, digs into the social fabric these traders stitched into the city’s center. It isn’t…
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Mumbai’s Art Deco Glory at 100
A Paris spark that changed the cityscape It started in Paris in 1925, when an exhibition introduced the world to Art Deco’s sleek lines, geometric forms, and lacquered glamour. The style quickly migrated to cities across the globe, but nowhere embraced its essence quite like Mumbai. As the city marks 100 years since that pivotal…
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Brilliant time capsule: Bendigo welcomes Allan Doney photography back to town
A remarkable return for Bendigo’s visual history A stunning trove of historical images has returned to Bendigo, offering a window into the city’s mid-20th-century life. The Allan Doney Photographic Collection, which includes more than 14,000 negatives and 3,000 prints from the 1950s to the 1970s, has been gifted from the National Trust of Australia to…
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Fribourg’s Vanished Industrial Past: Three Local Photographers
A Look Back at Fribourg’s Vanished Industrial Past Three Fribourg-based photographers turn to their archives to pay homage to the city’s former industrial sites, now disappeared. Their exhibition traces the history of emblematic places such as the Cardinal brewery, the sawmill at Ritter Hall, and the Boxal aluminum packaging plant, offering a quiet look into…