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Dr. Geoffrey D. Zylstra

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Dr. Zylstra is a historian who focuses on the relationship between industrial change and the built environment in nineteenth-century cities such as New York City and Philadelphia. Using the design of space as my point of departure, he examines how various groups of people struggled over the meaning and shape of emerging technologies as they realized that industrial ideals emphasizing the separation of home and work, manufacturing over agricultural production, the control of space through time, and the corporatization of public space led to a reinvention of not just the region, but also their ways of life. He has published articles in journals like Technology and Culture, the Journal of Urban Technology and Agricultural History and am a contributing editor for Technology and Culture. He has also written on the history of poverty for the House Committee on Ways and Means. Additionally, Dr. Zylstra has participated in numerous public history projects, including the New York Times - CUNY 2013 history calendar and the History Channel show “101 Inventions that Changed the World”

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Reidentifying Race and Technology: Streetcars in Nineteenth Century Philadelphia Research and Innovative Technology Administration / USDOT (RITA)
UTRC Faculty Development Mini-grants
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2008 Reidentifying Race and Technology: Streetcars in Nineteenth Century Philadelphia

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Assistant Professor of History, NYC College of Technology
Geoffrey D.
Zylstra
City University of New York
gzylstra@citytech.cuny.edu
(718) 260-5412

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