Jeremiah B.C. Axelrod

"Keep The 'L' Out Of Los Angeles": Race, Discourse, and Urban Modernity in 1920s Southern California
Journal of Urban History 2007 34: 3-37. [Abstract] [PDF] [References]  

Louise Nelson Dyble

Revolt Against Sprawl: Transportation and the Origins of the Marin County Growth-Control Regime
Journal of Urban History 2007 34: 38-66. [Abstract] [PDF] [References]  

Karen Ferguson

Organizing the Ghetto: The Ford Foundation, CORE, and White Power in the Black Power Era, 1967–1969
Journal of Urban History 2007 34: 67-100. [Abstract] [PDF] [References]  

Joe Moran

Early Cultures of Gentrification in London, 1955–1980
Journal of Urban History 2007 34: 101-121. [Abstract] [PDF] [References]  

Elliott J. Gorn

Review Essay: Culture in the City: CARLO ROTELLA, October Cities: The Redevelopment of Urban Literature. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998, pp. xii, 358, maps, figures, illustrations, notes, index, $50 cloth, $21.95 paper. CARLO ROTELLA, Good with Their Hands: Boxers, Bluesmen, and Other Characters from the Rust Belt. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002, pp. ix, 269, illustrations, notes, index, $29.95 cloth. CARLO ROTELLA, Cut Time: An Education at the Fights. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003, pp. 240, $24, cloth
Journal of Urban History 2007 34: 122-130. [PDF] [References]  

Jeffrey A. Kroessler

Review Essay: New York's New Narrative: EDWIN G. BURROWS AND MIKE WALLACE, Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. xxiv, 1383, illustrations, bibliography, index, $49.95 cloth. GEORGE J. LANKEVICH, American Metropolis: A History of New York City. New York: New York University Press, 1998, pp. x, 273, illustrations, bibliography, index, $18.95 paper. ALLON SCHOENER, New York: An Illustrated History of the People. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1998, pp. 416, illustrations, bibliography, index, $59.95 cloth. DAVID M. SCOBEY, Empire City: The Making and Meaning of the New York City Landscape. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2002, pp. xi, 340, illustrations, notes, index, $40 cloth
Journal of Urban History 2007 34: 131-138. [PDF]  

Ann Taylor Allen

Review Essay: Reformers and Radicals: Gender Politics in the Modern City: ANJA SCHÜLER, Frauenbewegung und soziale Reform: Jane Addams und Alice Salomon im transatlantischen Dialog, 1889-1933. Transatlantische historische Studien, edited by Christoph Mauch, Christine von Oertzen, and Christophe Strupp, vol 16. Stuttgart, Germany: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004, pp. 391, index, notes, ££ 44 cloth. PAMELA E. SWETT, Neigbors and Enemies: The Culture of Radicalism in Berlin, 1929-1933. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp xv + 337, index, maps, notes, illustrations, $75 cloth.
Journal of Urban History 2007 34: 139-144. [PDF] [References]  

Harold L. Platt

Review Essay: Fixing Technology: GREGORY J. DOWNEY, Telegraph Messenger Boys: Labor, Technology, and Geography, 1850—1950. New York: Routledge, 2002, pp. xiv, 242, illustrations, tables, notes, index, $23.95 paper. JOHN A. JAKLE, City Lights: Illuminating the American Night. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001, pp. x, 292, notes, index, illustrations, $45.00 cloth. WILLIAM J. MITCHELL, Me++: The Cyborg Self and the Networked City. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002, pp. 259, notes, index, $27.95 cloth. GIJS MOM, The Electric Vehicle: Technology and Expectations in the Automobile Age. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004, pp. xiii, 423, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index, $54.95 cloth. RONALD C. TOBEY, Technology as Freedom: The New Deal and the Electrical Modernization of the American Home. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996, pp. xviii, 316, illustrations, tables, graphs, notes, index, $35.00 cloth
Journal of Urban History 2007 34: 145-153. [PDF] [References]  

Kate Hill

Review Essay: Tales of the City: Discourse and Governance in Victorian Britain: TRISTRAM HUNT, Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2004, pp xvi, 432, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, £25.00 cloth. PATRICK JOYCE, The Rule of Freedom: Liberalism and the Modern City. London: Verson, 2003, pp. xii, 276, illustrations, notes, index, £18.00 cloth.
Journal of Urban History 2007 34: 154-160. [PDF] [References]  

Bruce Masters

Review Essay: The Middle Eastern City Between Orientalism and Urban History: CEM BEHAR, A Neighborhood in Ottoman Istanbul: Fruit Vendors and Civil Servants in the Kasap lyas Mahalle. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2003, x, 224 pp., illustrations, tables, maps, appendix, notes, bibliography, index, $24.95 paper. JOHN LIMBERT, Shiraz in the Age of Hafez: The Glory of a Medieval Persian City. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2004, xiii, 182 pp., photos, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, index, $22.50 paper. JENS HANSSEN, THOMAS PHILIPP, and STEFAN WEBER, eds., The Empire in the City: Arab Provincial Capitals in the Late Ottoman Empire. Beirut: Orient-Institut der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, 2002, x, 378 pp., photos, figures, maps, index, $45.00 paper
Journal of Urban History 2007 34: 161-166. [PDF] [References]  

Terry Slater

Review Essay: Building England's Towns in Time and Space: SIMON BRADLEY and NIKOLAUS PEVSNER, London 6: Westminster (The Buildings of England). New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003, pp. xxi, 872, illustrations, index, $48.00 cloth. MICHAEL FORSYTH, Bath (Pevsner Architectural Guide). New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003, pp. xiii, 330, illustrations, index, $26.00 paper. JOSEPH SHARPLES, Liverpool (Pevsner Architectural Guide). New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004, pp. xii, 332, illustrations, index, $26.00 paper. DEREK KEENE, ARTHUR BURNS, and ANDREW SAINT, eds., St. Paul's: The Cathedral Church of London 604-2004. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004, pp. xiv, 538, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, $135.00 cloth. PETER GUILLERY, The Small House in Eighteenth-Century London. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004, pp. vii, 351, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, $60.00 cloth. ANTHONY QUINEY, Town Houses of Medieval Britain. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004, pp. 320, illustrations, index, $60.00 cloth
Journal of Urban History 2007 34: 167-178. [PDF] [References]  

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