Newsletter #2
of the Global Urban History Project, volume 1, issue 2, October, 2017
An Invitation and Two Announcements
You are warmly invited to meet fellow GUHP members in person on the first stop of our 2017-18 “Roundtables Around the World” Tour in Cleveland, Ohio, from 2:30-4:15 on Saturday October 28 at the bi-annual Meeting of SACRPH (the Society for American City and Regional Planning). Several GUHP founders will lead a roundtable discussion on the current state of global urban history, making the case for formalizing networks in this rapidly developing hybrid research field.
After the roundtable you are invited to join us for an informal Open House, at a location to be determined. Please rsvp to Carl Nightingale at cn6@buffalo.edu so we can make appropriate arrangements. If you have conflicting plans for that time, but would like to chat, we can plan other smaller get-togethers over dinner or breakfast.
You can learn about future stops on the Roundtables Around the World tour by checking out the first edition of the GUHP Newsletter.
Announcement #1: The Global Urban History Bibliography Project
As one of its first major undertakings, the Global Urban History Project has assembled a Bibliography Team under the direction of GUHP Board Member Mariana Dantas. The goal of the project is to provide on-line bibliographical resource for members of GUHP that is searchable by area, period, and theme and that encompasses the entire field of global urban history.
The philosophy of the project is simple: members add, and the network will multiply.
In other words, GUHP requires help from you to gather entries, but GUHP can and will consolidate them to create a usable tool for all.
Members have already volunteered thousands of bibliographical entries as part of the sign-up process. Project staff will sort these into lists over the course of the coming year and make announcements when new lists are ready. The lists will include direct hyperlinks where possible to abstracts, texts, or publicity materials. They will also be linked to bibliographical forums where members can discuss the lists and add suggestions for new entries.
Scholars in the field of global urban history who are not yet GUHP Members but wish to be listed in these bibliographies should sign up as members, ideally providing us with hyperlinked entries so we can cut down on the labor involved. To do this you’ll have to edit the bibliography section after you pass through the initial sign-up process. You'll need to click on the “Edit My Profile” link on the GUHP website.
For already existing GUHP members, please consider budgeting a few minutes of service to the Project by copying the entries you already have uploaded into the “Biography” section of your profile (this section will soon be renamed “Bibliography”), where you can add the hyperlinks you would prefer to on-line versions of the publication. This will save us staff time and resources. Again, start with the “Edit My Profile” link on the GUHP website. If you need help with this please contact Guangzhi Huang at guangzhi@buffalo.edu.
Announcement # 2: A New Series, “Noteworthy in Global Urban History”
Starting next Monday, the Bibliography Team will also begin curating a series of regular communications about GUHP members' work in the field, starting with materials dating from 2016 and 2017. Each edition of the "Noteworthy in Global Urban History" will include short notes on a handful of recent books, articles, and websites of allied networks that showcase members' individual achievements as well as the sheer breadth of the field of global urban history. These will be widely circulated through our own lists and other social media.
We feel that this is one of the most powerful tools GUHP can offer to its members. Naturally if you’d prefer not to be featured in editions of Noteworthy series you should let us know. All communication should be directed to Guangzhi Huang, Editor of “Noteworthy in GUH” at guangzhi@buffalo.edu.
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