Kara Murphy Schlichting
Biographic Data
| ID | 4036018 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kara Murphy Schlichting |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kara Murphy |
| FAMILY NAME | Schlichting |
| SIGNATURE | SCHLICHTING K M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queens University of Charlotte |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3446-6322 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Sensing Heat, Finding Cool
At the turn of the twentieth century, Paris, New York, and London were epicenters of urban modernity, but these cities and their inhabitants were ill-equipped to cope with summer heat. Urbanites experienced thermal discomfort directly through their personal sensory registers, and the search for cooling water was a major, although overlooked, aspect of collective urban life in summer. Drawing on sensory and environmental history, and on the archiv…
Urban Seasonality
Seasons shape infrastructures, temporalities, and life worlds in fundamental ways. Urbanites have long recognized the seasonality of their environments, but seasons have been little studied by historians. This special section explores the diverse ways that urban seasonality affects urban life, focusing on cities in temperate zones across the globe, from North America to Europe to Japan. This collection of essays shows how seasonal rhythms, differ…
Thinking with Urban Natures
Since the Enlightenment, cities have been considered as exemplary spaces of human achievement. Technological developments and the constant reorganisation of materials and infrastructures have contributed to a widely shared conception of nature as something outside of urban areas. Our age, framed by the Anthropocene and the sixth wave of extinction, has shattered such vision. Novel reflections across the natural sciences, the arts and the humaniti…
The Narrowing of Broad Beach
Waterfronts represent some of Southern California’s most valuable real estate and most sought-after recreation destinations. Despite Los Angeles County’s reputation for large public beaches, privatization and the discouragement of public use came to characterize Malibu’s Broad Beach by the end of the twentieth century. In the same era, erosion reshaped the boundary between public and private property on the beach. Residents called for permanent s…
Hot Town
This essay examines visual records to reveal summer heat’s effect on the body, on living spaces, and on Manhattan’s cityscape due to the urban heat island, the phenomenon of significantly warmer temperatures in metropolitan areas due to concentrated development and human activities. Although the bodily experience of heat and humidity is intimate and subjective, summer temperatures, especially when amplified by a heat wave, fostered collective sea…
Misremembering risk in the age of hurricanes
This paper explores the lost history of New England hurricanes and how the “return” of hurricanes challenged understandings of the vulnerabilities of coastal communities due to weather. A series of severe New England hurricanes from 1938 to 1954 forced Rhode Islanders to reassess coastal vulnerabilities and protection strategies. Before the hurricane of ‘38, Rhode Islanders lived with the vulnerability of seasonal erosion and winter storms but be…
They Shall Not Pass”
Estate owners in Greens Farms in Westport, Connecticut, and on the North Shore of Long Island doggedly fought inclusive, state-sponsored public recreation in the 1910s and 1920s. Private land-use goals shaped localism and, in turn, exploited home rule governance to control public land use. This study of local politics in the New York metropolis contributes to the ongoing regionalization of urban history. These home rule fights against state parks…
The Decline of Nature
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The Decline of Nature
They Shall Not Pass”
Estate owners in Greens Farms in Westport, Connecticut, and on the North Shore of Long Island doggedly fought inclusive, state-sponsored public recreation in the 1910s and 1920s. Private land-use goals shaped localism and, in turn, exploited home rule governance to control public land use. This study of local politics in the New York metropolis contributes to the ongoing regionalization of urban history. These home rule fights against state parks…
Hot Town
This essay examines visual records to reveal summer heat’s effect on the body, on living spaces, and on Manhattan’s cityscape due to the urban heat island, the phenomenon of significantly warmer temperatures in metropolitan areas due to concentrated development and human activities. Although the bodily experience of heat and humidity is intimate and subjective, summer temperatures, especially when amplified by a heat wave, fostered collective sea…
Misremembering risk in the age of hurricanes
This paper explores the lost history of New England hurricanes and how the “return” of hurricanes challenged understandings of the vulnerabilities of coastal communities due to weather. A series of severe New England hurricanes from 1938 to 1954 forced Rhode Islanders to reassess coastal vulnerabilities and protection strategies. Before the hurricane of ‘38, Rhode Islanders lived with the vulnerability of seasonal erosion and winter storms but be…
Thinking with Urban Natures
Since the Enlightenment, cities have been considered as exemplary spaces of human achievement. Technological developments and the constant reorganisation of materials and infrastructures have contributed to a widely shared conception of nature as something outside of urban areas. Our age, framed by the Anthropocene and the sixth wave of extinction, has shattered such vision. Novel reflections across the natural sciences, the arts and the humaniti…
The Narrowing of Broad Beach
Waterfronts represent some of Southern California’s most valuable real estate and most sought-after recreation destinations. Despite Los Angeles County’s reputation for large public beaches, privatization and the discouragement of public use came to characterize Malibu’s Broad Beach by the end of the twentieth century. In the same era, erosion reshaped the boundary between public and private property on the beach. Residents called for permanent s…
Urban Seasonality
Seasons shape infrastructures, temporalities, and life worlds in fundamental ways. Urbanites have long recognized the seasonality of their environments, but seasons have been little studied by historians. This special section explores the diverse ways that urban seasonality affects urban life, focusing on cities in temperate zones across the globe, from North America to Europe to Japan. This collection of essays shows how seasonal rhythms, differ…
Sensing Heat, Finding Cool
At the turn of the twentieth century, Paris, New York, and London were epicenters of urban modernity, but these cities and their inhabitants were ill-equipped to cope with summer heat. Urbanites experienced thermal discomfort directly through their personal sensory registers, and the search for cooling water was a major, although overlooked, aspect of collective urban life in summer. Drawing on sensory and environmental history, and on the archiv…
Geography (6 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Climate change (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Estate (2 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (2 works)