Hartford City Hartford

Hartford City Hartford

Author: Juanita Crispin

Publisher:

Published: 2021-12-15

Total Pages: 110

ISBN-13:

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Hartford City Hartford Hartford, Connecticut Picture by Juanita Crispin Follow iamhartford on facebook, Instagram, tiktok, and google. I moved to Hartford, Connecticut in 1986 from Puerto Rico. I immediately learned about the Hartford Whalers, Mark Twain, and it's nicknamed the "Insurance Capital of the World." I have learned so much about Hartford and Hartford's History over the years. Each neighborhood (Pratt Street, Downtown Hartford, Parkville, Frog Hollow, Asylum Hill, The West End, Sheldon Charter Oak, The North East, The South End, South Green, The South Meadows, The North Meadows, Blue Hills, Barry Square, Behind the Rocks, Clay Arsenal, South West, and Upper Albany) is like a piece of the puzzle that makes Hartford New England's Rising Star. Hartford hast it! It's so nice to see the different cultures in Hartford and for them to be celebrated each year. I love the parades (Greater Hartford St; Patrick's Day Parade; Greater Hartford Puerto Rican Day Parade; Greater Hartford West Indian Parade; Hooker Day Parade; Connecticut Veterans Parade) and sports teams (Hartford Wolf Pack; Hartford Yard Goats; Hartford Athletic.) I enjoy visiting Hartford Circus Fire Memorial, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum, Connecticut Science Center, and many other landmarks feet from each other. I love that Hartford Public High School is the second oldest public secondary school in the United States which I graduated from in 1993. I am a proud University of Hartford Alumni, and I am also proud that we have a variety of universities and colleges (Trinity College, UCONN, Capital Community College) in our city. The Hartford Courant, which is the oldest continuously published city newspaper in the country and the Hartford Public Library has helped me a lot with my research as well as previous and present dwellers. I enjoy taking pictures of Hartford and started documenting in social media under the name "iamhartford." In 2021 I decided to launch my journal collection using my pictures of Hartford, Connecticut. I am very proud that I was able to incorporate multiple things that I love and enjoy and make a journal.


Confronting Urban Legacy

Confronting Urban Legacy

Author: Xiangming Chen

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2013-10-18

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 073914944X

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Confronting Urban Legacy fills a critical lacuna in urban scholarship. As almost all of the literature focuses on global cities and megacities, smaller, secondary cities, which actually hold the majority of the world’s population, are either critically misunderstood or unexamined in their entirety. This neglect not only biases scholars’ understanding of social and spatial dynamics toward very large global cities but also maintains a void in students’ learning. This book specifically explores the transformative relationship between globalization and urban transition in Hartford, Connecticut, while including crucial comparative chapters on other forgotten New England cities: Portland, Maine, along with Lawrence and Springfield, Massachusetts. Hartford’s transformation carries a striking imprint of globalization that has been largely missed: from its 17th century roots as New England first inland colonial settlement, to its emergence as one of the world’s most prosperous manufacturing and insurance metropolises, to its present configuration as one of America’s poorest post-industrial cities, which by still retaining a globally lucrative FIRE Sector is nevertheless surrounded by one of the nation’s most prosperous metropolitan regions. The myriad of dilemmas confronting Hartford calls for this book to take an interdisciplinary approach. The editors’ introduction places Hartford in a global comparative perspective; Part I provides rich historical delineations of the many rises and (not quite) falls of Hartford; Part II offers a broad contemporary treatment of Hartford by dissecting recent immigration and examining the demographic and educational dimensions of the city-suburban divide; and Part III unpacks Hartford’s current social, economic, and political situation and discusses what the city could become. Using the lessons from this book on Hartford and other underappreciated secondary cities in New England, urban scholars, leaders, and residents alike can gain a number of essential insights—both theoretical and practical.


A Guide to Historic Hartford, Connecticut

A Guide to Historic Hartford, Connecticut

Author: Daniel Sterner

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2012-07-10

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 1614235805

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Hartford, Connecticut, was settled as an agrarian society with fertile fields and abundant crops at the confluence of the Connecticut and Little (later Park) Rivers by Reverend Thomas Hooker and his Puritan congregation. Navigation on the rivers quickly established the city as a center for commerce. Author Daniel Sterner delves into the history of Hartford with tours from Bushnell Park to Asylum Hill and through Frog Hollow. Discover the many people, places and events that have shaped the capital of the Constitution State.


Hartford Seen

Hartford Seen

Author: Pablo Delano

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

Published: 2020-03-06

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 0819579262

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Hartford Seen is the first modern-day art photography book focused exclusively on Connecticut's capital city. Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Pablo Delano relocated from Manhattan to Hartford in 1996 to teach photography at Trinity College. On his daily drive to work, he was struck continually by the city's visual beauty and complexity. He left the car and began to explore, using his camera as a means of gaining a deeper understanding of what he found. In this personal meditation on Harford's built environment, Delano implements a methodical but intuitive approach, scrutinizing the layers of history embedded in the city's fabric. He documents commercial establishments, industrial sites, places of worship, and homes with a painter's eye to color and composition. His vision tends to eschew the city's better-known landmarks in favor of vernacular structures that reflect the tastes and needs of the city's diverse population at the dawn of the 21st Century. Over the last 100 years Hartford may have transformed from one of America's wealthiest cities to one of its poorest, but as suggested by Hartford Seen, today it nevertheless enjoys extraordinary cultural offerings, small entrepreneurship, and a vibrant spiritual life. The city's historical palette consists mostly of the brownstone, redbrick, and gray granite shades common in New England's older cities. Yet Delano perceives that it is also saturated with the blazing hues favored by many of its newer citizens. With more than 150 full-color images,Hartford Seen vitally expands the repertoire of photographic studies of American cities and of their contemporary built environments.


State of the City

State of the City

Author: Hartford (Conn.). Department of Planning and Economic Development

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 65

ISBN-13:

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