Michael B. Katz

Why Don't American Cities Burn Very Often?
Journal of Urban History 2008 34: 185-208. [Abstract] [PDF] [References]  

Wendell E. Pritchett and Mark H. Rose

Introduction: Politics and the American City, 1940–1990
Journal of Urban History 2008 34: 209-220. [Abstract] [PDF] [References]  

Joseph Heathcott

The City Quietly Remade: National Programs and Local Agendas in the Movement to Clear the Slums, 1942–1952
Journal of Urban History 2008 34: 221-242. [Abstract] [PDF] [References]  

Peter Siskind

Shades of Black and Green: The Making of Racial and Environmental Liberalism in Nelson Rockefeller's New York
Journal of Urban History 2008 34: 243-265. [Abstract] [PDF] [References]  

Wendell E. Pritchett

Which Urban Crisis?: Regionalism, Race, and Urban Policy, 1960—1974
Journal of Urban History 2008 34: 266-286. [Abstract] [PDF] [References]  

Louise Nelson Dyble

The Defeat of the Golden Gate Authority: A Special District, a Council of Governments, and the Fate of Regional Planning in the San Francisco Bay Area
Journal of Urban History 2008 34: 287-308. [Abstract] [PDF] [References]  

Christopher Klemek

From Political Outsider To Power Broker in Two "Great American Cities": Jane Jacobs and the Fall of the Urban Renewal Order in New York and Toronto
Journal of Urban History 2008 34: 309-332. [Abstract] [PDF] [References]  

Alice O'Connor

The Privatized City: The Manhattan Institute, the Urban Crisis, and the Conservative Counterrevolution in New York
Journal of Urban History 2008 34: 333-353. [Abstract] [PDF] [References]  

Rachel N. Klein

Review Essay: Art Museums, Patronage, and the Transformation of Culture in the Nineteenth Century: WENDY JEAN KATZ, Regionalism and Reform: Art and Class Formationin Antebellum Cincinnati. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2002, pp. xx, 264, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, $47.95 cloth. NICK PRIOR, Museums & Modernity: Art Galleries and the Making of Modern Culture. Oxford: Berg [distributed by NYU Press], 2002, pp. xii, 258, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, $68.00 cloth, $22.00 paper.
Journal of Urban History 2008 34: 354-360. [PDF] [References]  

Michael K. Brown

Review Essay: Why Saving Souls Won't Save Children: Religion and the Pre-History of the American Welfare State: DAVID T. BEITO, From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State: Fraternal Societiesand Social Services, 1890_1967. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000, pp. xiv, 320, illustrations, tables, bibliographic essay, notes, index, $55.00 cloth, $24.95 paperback. DOROTHY M. BROWN AND ELIZABETH MCKEOWN, The Poor Belong to Us: Catholic Charities and American Welfare. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000, pp. 284, bibliography, notes, index, $18.95 paperback. MATTHEW A. CRENSON, Building the Invisible Orphanage: A Prehistory of the American Welfare System. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998, pp. xii, 383, illustrations, notes, index, $55.00 cloth, $22.95 paperback. SUGAR TURNER AND TRACY BACHRACH EHLERS, Sugar_s Life in the Hood: The Story of a Former Welfare Mother. Foreword by Molly Ivins. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002, pp. xi, 243, $29.95 cloth.
Journal of Urban History 2008 34: 361-369. [PDF] [References]  

Ian W. Archer

Review Essay: "Civic Culture" in Later Medieval and Early Modern London: ANNE LANCASHIRE, London Civic Theatre: City Drama and Pageantry from Roman Times to 1558. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp. xix + 355, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, $65 cloth. TRACEY HILL, Anthony Munday and Civic Culture: Theatre, History and Power in Early Modern London 1580-1633. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2004, pp. viii + 216, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, $75 cloth. JANETTE DILLON, Theatre, Court and City 1595-1610: Drama and Social Space in London. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. x + 187, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, $85 cloth
Journal of Urban History 2008 34: 370-379. [PDF] [References]  

Robert B. Fairbanks

Review Essay: Two Cheers for Public Housing: the Tenants' View: J. S. FUERST, When Public Housing Was Paradise: Building Community in Chicago. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2005, xvi, 228, illustrations, notes, index, $20 paper. RHONDA Y. WILLIAMS, The Politics of Public History: Black Women's Struggles Against Inequality. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004, xiii, 306, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, $29.95 hardcover
Journal of Urban History 2008 34: 380-386. [PDF] [References]  

Cornelia F. Sexauer

Review Essay: The Shaping of Catholic Thought and Action in the United States: PETER R. D'AGOSTINO, Rome in America: Transnational Catholic Ideology from the Risorgimento to Fascism. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004, pp. xi, 393, maps, notes, bibliography, index, $59.95 cloth, $22.50 paper. EVELYN SAVIDGE STERNE, Ballots and Bibles: Ethnic Politics and the Catholic Church in Providence. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004, pp. xv, 294, illustrations, notes, index, $34.95 cloth
Journal of Urban History 2008 34: 387-392. [PDF] [References]  

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