Charissa N. Terranova

Marcel Poëte's Bergsonian Urbanism: Vitalism, Time, and the City
Journal of Urban History 2008 34: 919-943. [Abstract] [PDF] [References] [Request Permission]  

Brian J. Miller

The Struggle Over Redevelopment At Cabrini-Green, 1989-2004
Journal of Urban History 2008 34: 944-960. [Abstract] [PDF] [References] [Request Permission]  

Ocean Howell

Play Pays: Urban Land Politics and Playgrounds in the United States, 1900-1930
Journal of Urban History 2008 34: 961-994. [Abstract] [PDF] [References] [Request Permission]  

Jack Schneider

Escape From Los Angeles: White Flight from Los Angeles and Its Schools, 1960-1980
Journal of Urban History 2008 34: 995-1012. [Abstract] [PDF] [References] [Request Permission]  

Kristin Stapleton

Review Essay: Beijing, Olympic City: RICHARD BELSKY, Localities at the Center: Native Place, Space, and Power in Late Imperial Beijing. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2005, pp. xii, 318, maps, illustrations, bibliography, index, $45.00 cloth. MADELEINE YUE DONG, Republican Beijing: The City and its Histories. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003, pp. xxiii, 380, maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, $55.00 cloth. LILLIAN M. LI, ALISON J. DRAY-NOVEY, AND HAILI KONG, Beijing: From Imperial City to Olympic City. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007, pp. xiv, 321, maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, $27.95 cloth. WU HUNG, Remaking Beijing: Tiananmen Square and the Creation of a Political Space. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2005, pp. 272, maps, illustrations, references, bibliography, index, $80.00 cloth, $35.00 paper. LI ZHANG, Strangers in the City: Reconfigurations of Space, Power, and Social Networks within China's Floating Population. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001, pp. xiv, 286, maps, illustrations, glossary, bibliography, index, $25.95 paper
Journal of Urban History 2008 34: 1013-1020. [PDF] [References] [Request Permission]  

Helen Meller

Review Essay: LEARNING FROM THE PAST Planning History at the Crossroads?: EBENEZER HOWARD, Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform. Original edition with commentary by Peter Hall, Dennis Hardy, and Colin Ward. London: Routledge, 2003, pp. xii, 220, illustrations, bibliography, index, £66.00 cloth. STEPHEN V. WARD, Planning and Urban Change. Second edition. London: Sage, 2004, pp. viii, 312, illustrations, bibliography, index, £70.00 cloth, £21.99 paper. MARK CLAPSON, A Social History of Milton Keynes: Middle England/Edge City. London: Frank Cass, 2004, pp. xxi, 202, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, £60.00 cloth, £18.50 paper. MICHAEL JAMES MILLER, The Representation of Place: Urban Planning and Protest in France and Great Britain, 1950—1980. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2003, pp. xvi, 347, illustrations, bibliography, index, £47.50 cloth
Journal of Urban History 2008 34: 1021-1028. [PDF] [References] [Request Permission]  

David M. Wrobel

Review Essay: PARADISE PONDERED Urban California, 1850—2000: NORRIS HUNDLEY, JR., The Great Thirst: Californians & Water: A History. Revised Edition. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001, pp. xxiii, 799, photographs, maps, bibliography, index, $65.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. DAVID IGLER, Industrial Cowboys: Miller & Lux and the Transformation of the Far West, 1850—1920. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001, pp. 281, illustrations, index, $37.50 cloth. TOM SITTON AND WILLIAM DEVERELL, eds., Metropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920s. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001, pp. xii, 371, illustrations, maps, bibliography, index, $55.00 cloth, $22.50 paper. WILLIAM FULTON, The Reluctant Metropolis: The Politics of Urban Growth in Los Angeles. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001, pp. viii, 407, illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index, $18.95 paper
Journal of Urban History 2008 34: 1029-1043. [PDF] [References] [Request Permission]  

Tridib Banerjee

Review Essay: URBAN OUTCOMES OF GLOBALIZATION Theory, Research, and Practice: JOSEF GUGLER, ed., World Cities Beyond the West: Globalization, Development and Inequality. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. xv, 396, maps, tables, references, index, $75 cloth, $34.99 paper. MICKEY LAURIA, ed., Reconstructing Urban Regime Theory: Regulating Urban Politics in a Global Economy. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1996, pp. ix, 278, notes, bibliography, index, $52.00 cloth, $23.95 paper. H. V. SAVTICH AND PAUL KANTOR, Cities in the International Marketplace: The Political Economy of Urban Development in North America and Western Europe. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002, xxii, 445, illustrations, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, index, $34.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. ROGER SIMMONDS AND GARY HACK, Global City Regions: Their Emerging Forms. New York: Taylor and Francis Publishing, Inc., 2001, pp. viii, 286, illustrations, maps, $99.00 cloth. WILLIAM SITES, Remaking New York: Primitive Globalization and the Politics of Urban Community. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003, xxvi, 260, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, $59.95 cloth, $19.95 paper
Journal of Urban History 2008 34: 1044-1054. [PDF] [References] [Request Permission]  

Erica L. Ball

Review Essay: CROSSING BOUNDARIES AND CREATING COMMUNITY African American Identity and Politics in Antebellum New York and Washington D.C: LESLIE M. HARRIS, In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626—1863. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003, pp. xii, 380, illustrations, maps notes, works consulted, index, $47.50 cloth. STANLEY HARROLD, Subversives: Antislavery Community in Washington, D.C., 1828—1865. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003, pp. xiv, 280, illustrations, notes, essay on sources, index, $69.95 cloth, $24.95 paper. SHANE WHITE, Stories of Freedom in Black New York. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002, pp. 260, notes, index, $27.95 cloth
Journal of Urban History 2008 34: 1055-1063. [PDF] [References] [Request Permission]  

Natalia Milanesio

Review Essay: Urban Space and Peronism in Argentina: ROSA ABOY, Viviendas para el pueblo. Espacio urbano y sociabilidad en Los Perales, 1946-1955. Buenos Aires: Universidad de San Andrés/Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2005, pp. 195, illustrations, maps, bibliography. ANAHI BALLENT, Las huellas de la política. Vivienda, ciudad, peronismo en Buenos Aires, 1943-1955. Buenos Aires: Universidad Nacional de Quilmes/Prometeo, 2005, pp. 273, illustrations, maps
Journal of Urban History 2008 34: 1064-1069. [PDF] [References] [Request Permission]  

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