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Amy Finstein

@AmyFinstein

Architectural & urban historian / Assoc Prof @holy_cross / author: Modern Mobility Aloft (@TempleUnivPress) / Kniffen award @ISLPandMC / Buchanan award @VAFweb

Joined June 2020
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Thrilled to receive the Paul E. Buchanan Award from @vafweb at #VAF2024! The Buchanan Award recognizes "Excellence in Field Work, Interpretation, and Public Service," and I couldn't be more proud to see our urban history work honored in this way! sites.google.com/holycross.e…
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As an avid gardener, what fun today to find a 1927 letter in the archive I am researching in where the author missed a meeting b/c she, "got tangled up in a rose bush in my garden which is undergoing the process of rejuvenation and when I came to the surface it was too late."
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Using an online collection of historical urban atlases, Holy Cross students explored Boston’s landscape to examine how its historical landmarks have changed over time. More: bit.ly/41zUEhH – at Worcester, MA
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My Fall22 @holy_cross students just added 25 new stories to our ongoing project about the history of the land now occupied by @HelloGreenway! @bplmaps provided the backbone for historic atlas research, & then @hc_libs helped us gather evidence. sites.google.com/holycross.e…

Making the Modern City

How Can we observe a city's changes over time? This is the question that two semesters of students in Prof. Amy Finstein's course, Making the Modern City, sought to answer about a specific area of...

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Students recently wrote about their research processes for @bplmaps: leventhalmap.org/articles/be… #urbanhistory #rosekennedygreenway #bostonhistory
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Hey - I’m in @History Channel's show “History’s Greatest of All Time with Peyton Manning.” This week, Mon March 6 @ 10/9c, we rank the top 10 Greatest Daredevils. Not sure if I'm in it, but it's a fun watch regardless. Here’s a clip from last week’s on inventions #GOATOnHistory
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Excited to share my new article about an unsung commission by Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, published yesterday in the newest issue of Winterthur Portfolio. #bauhaus #gropius #breuer journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10…
A Gropius-Breuer House Like Notable Others Consumerism, Copying, and Connoisseurship in an Unsung...

A Gropius-Breuer House Like Notable Others Consumerism, Copying, and Connoisseurship in an Unsung...

One of the last commissions of the brief American partnership between Bauhaus architects Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, the Virgil Abele House (Framingham, Massachusetts, 1940–41), has remained in...

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The article profiles the Abele House (1941), which borrowed heavily from other Gropius-Breuer projects, and was therefore dismissed by scholars. My research unpacks the how and why of this copying, and sheds new light on the G-B partnership and the spread of modern housing ideas.
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Such a delight to visit NYC via #MoynihanTrainHall for @SACRPH this past weekend. Powerful to come through this impressive new urban space to discuss urban history with amazing scholars.
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When art/utility boxes imitate Philip Johnson. #palladianwindowsforeveryone
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Summer persistence.
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What if rising gas prices give us a collective opportunity to reconsider how we move? On a larger, community scale. There's exciting policy potential to start to shift the conversation about what types of vehicles we ride in, how often, and to where. curbed.com/2022/03/high-gas-…
What If Joe Biden Paid You to Get Out of Your Car?

What If Joe Biden Paid You to Get Out of Your Car?

A vision for a commute that might suck less.

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Local to the Boston/Worcester area? Join me one week from today!
HC Libraries (@hc_libs) profile pictureHC Libraries@hc_libs23 Mar 2022
Join the Holy Cross Libraries for “Authors on the Hill.” Prof. Finstein will present her award-winning book, “Modern Mobility Aloft: Elevated Highways, Architecture, and Urban Change in Pre-Interstate America.” Wednesday, March 2 at 4:30pm in Dinand Library. In-person event only.
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I think this may be the longest piece the New Yorker has ever published online. Apologies for its length, but it sums up what I've been thinking for a while now: The time has come to Stop Burning Stuff on planet earth, and rely on the burning sun instead newyorker.com/news/essay/in-…
In a World on Fire, Stop Burning Things

In a World on Fire, Stop Burning Things

The truth is new and counterintuitive: we have the technology necessary to rapidly ditch fossil fuels.

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Brian Goldstein@bgoldst15 Mar 2022
Ah, this is wonderful news! Francis Diébédo Kéré is such a graceful, humane, and kind architect. And creates work with such astonishing beauty, both aesthetic and social. Thrilled for him.
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The Architect's Newspaper (@archpaper) profile pictureThe Architect's Newspaper@archpaper15 Mar 2022
Diébédo Francis Kéré is the 2022 Pritzker Prize winner, the first from Africa since the prestigious award was launched in 1979: archpaper.com/2022/03/franci…
Francis Kéré is the 2022 Pritzker Prize laureate

Francis Kéré is the 2022 Pritzker Prize laureate

Diébédo Francis Kéré, whose structures have had an outsized impact in his native Burkina Faso, is the 2022 Pritzker Architecture Prize winner

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Just back from my first in-person professional gathering in 2 years at the #CTIWorkshop. What a treat to learn with this amazing group! Thank you @lwinling and @nowurbanism for organizing, and excited to see what comes next!
LaDale Winling (@lwinling) profile pictureLaDale Winling@lwinling12 Mar 2022
Replying to @interstatehwys @jon_petters @3underscores @amwhisnant @DavidASpatz @AmyFinstein @arothmanhistory @benjamintalton @rizzo_pubhist @CarmenBolt @jaheppler
Ask and you shall receive.
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This seems about right (Credit: Stefanie Blank, Architect and Climate activist at Architects4Future de.linkedin.com/in/stefanieb…)
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1940 New England Telephone & Telegraph ad apparently anticipated the frustrations of pandemic-induced isolation.
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Such a neat opportunity to contribute to the visual record of life over the past 20 months!
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@CityLab22 Dec 2021
Nearly two years into the pandemic, life remains in flux. How has Covid reshaped your world? Create a map and share your story with us. We'll publish a selection of reader-created maps in the coming weeks trib.al/msgItiS
What Does Your Pandemic Map Look Like? Share It With Us

What Does Your Pandemic Map Look Like? Share It With Us

In the third year of the Covid-19 pandemic, our worlds continue to be upended and transformed. We invite you to share your story with us by creating a homemade map.

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As the child of two musicians, I was in and around a lot of musical theater growing up. Today's tribute to Stephen Sondheim was a lovely little trip down memory lane, and I've been humming in my head all day. Enjoy. nytimes.com/2021/12/03/podca…
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