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The Limits of Black Activism: Philadelphia's Public Housing in the Depression and World War II

Wolfinger, J. — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:27:03 PDT

When the Philadelphia Tribune, the National Negro Congress, and other African American organizations launched a campaign for better housing in the mid-1930s, they displayed the hope many black Philadelphians had that public housing could improve their lives. That campaign, which succeeded in obtaining federal support for housing in Philadelphia, led to the construction of several projects, including the James Weldon Johnson and Richard Allen Homes. Many of the city’s African Americans regarded the new projects with great optimism. Over time, however, they learned that government officials, pressured by white Philadelphians, would not place "black" public housing in white neighborhoods, which meant the projects actually deepened segregation. Ironically, African Americans campaigned for, and won, housing projects that improved their lives in the short term but at the same time deepened their long-term problems. Paying attention to grassroots black politics, this article suggests, helps us understand how African Americans shaped their lives, but also argues that we must pay attention to the limits of their activism.

Barcelona's Urban Landscape: The Historical Making of a Tourist Product

Casellas, A. — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:27:03 PDT

Barcelona’s urban characteristics and its tourist appeal are not merely outcomes of the Modernist period or a recent dramatic urban transformation but rather the result of a long and tumultuous historic evolution. The present article presents an account of relevant historical, political, economic, and social forces shaping Barcelona’s urban evolution from the medieval times until the 1970s. The urban history of Barcelona illustrates how the landscape of a fashionable city is the result of urban planning in conjunction with many social, economic, and political events that often produce unexpected results.

New York State Housing Policy in Postwar New York City: The Enduring Rockefeller Legacy

Botein, H. — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:27:03 PDT

In postwar New York State, a powerful partnership among state government, the private sector, and quasi-public authorities resulted in the development of thousands of units of high-density middle-income housing located in New York City and a much smaller amount in other New York State cities. This housing was intended to counterbalance affordable suburban homes that were luring the middle class out of the city. This article describes this initiative and focuses on the contributions made by Nelson A. Rockefeller, governor of New York State between 1959 and 1973. The state made creative use of bond financing and public benefit corporations, raising capital with unsecured moral obligation bonds. New York State’s housing finance mechanisms facilitated a model of housing development that was prescient in its insistence on melding public and private, which is now the dominant strategy for affordable housing development in the United States.

The City as Subject: Contemporary Public Sculpture in Berlin

Loeb, C. — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:27:03 PDT

Berlin, a city rich in public sculpture, is the site of a distinctive body of recent work in which artists use the physicality of the city itself to reflect on and draw from the history of Berlin as a city. These sculptures grow out of and respond to the critical processes of social-historical and urban-historical investigation by architects, planners, citizen—activists, historians, and others, undertaken in the 1960s and 1970s. They intervene in recent architectural debates to challenge currently dominant conceptualizations of the urban ground plan and to reimagine historical and spatial relationships parallel to the urban reunification process. This article examines selected examples that provide a sense of how the city is taken as contemporary sculptors’ subject in both direct and complex forms.

Review Essay: The First World War as Urban Experience: Chickering, R. (2007). The Great War and Urban Life in Germany: Freiburg, 1914--1918. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. xiv, 568, appendix, notes, $105.00 cloth. Funck, M., and Chickering, R. (Eds.). (2004). Endangered Cities: Military Power and Urban Societies in the Era of the World Wars. Boston: Brill, pp. ix, 191, illustrations, notes, index, $148.00 cloth. Healy, M. (2004). Vienna and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire: Total War and Everyday Life in World War I. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. xv, 313, illustrations, notes, index, $95.00 cloth, $55.00 paper. Winter, J., and Robert, J.-L. (Eds.). (2007). Capital Cities at War: Paris, London, Berlin 1914--1919. Volume 2: A Cultural History. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. xiii, 481, notes, index, $110.00 cloth

Lewis, R. W. — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:27:03 PDT

Review Essay: "So Goes Society": Sexuality at the Center of Urban America

Mankowski, D. — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:27:03 PDT

Review Essay: One Shining Second: Mythic Chicago and Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century America

Dolan, M. — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:27:03 PDT

Review Essay: Suburban Disciplines: Archer, J. (2005). Architecture and Suburbia: From English Villa to American Dream House, 1690-2000. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, pp. xx, 470, illustrations, notes, index. $39.95 cloth. Forsyth, A. (2005). Reforming Suburbia: The Planned Communities of Irvine, Columbia, and the Woodlands. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. xv, 379, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index, $29.95 paper. Keating, A. D. (2005). Chicagoland: City and Suburbs in the Railroad Age. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. x, 262, illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index, $25.00 paper, $65.00 cloth

Smiley, D. — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:27:03 PDT

Review Essay: Tales of the City: Writing London's Histories

Gray, D. D. — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:27:03 PDT

Hurricane Katrina: Urban History from the Eye of the Storm

Trotter, J. W., Fernandez, J. — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:07:45 PDT

In late August 2005, Hurricane Katrina touched down in the Gulf Coast region of the United States. This massive storm left in its wake death, destruction, and human suffering on a scale and scope that will no doubt make it one of the largest social catastrophes of twenty-first-century American urban history. This disaster soon ignited widespread popular and academic debates over domestic policies dealing with questions of race and class, individual and government responsibility and accountability, and the relationship among society, technology, and the environment. Yet what is too often absent from such discussions are systematic historical perspectives on the role of human decisions in shaping the outcome of so-called "natural disasters." Accordingly, this essay explores overlapping developments in U.S. and African American urban, social, and environmental history and underscores the significance of history for advancing contemporary debates about the meaning of Katrina and the future of New Orleans and the Gulf States.

(Almost) A Closer Walk with Thee: Historical Reflections on New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina

Hirsch, A. R. — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:07:45 PDT

This article was never intended to be an analytical treatment of Hurricane Katrina's impact on the New Orleans metropolitan area. It was, from the start, an opportunistic effort to bring a historian's powers of observation to bear on a catastrophic event sure to have life-altering effects for generations. Finding myself an unwilling participant-observer, I attempted to record what I saw and thought as Katrina killed more than a thousand people, displaced many times that many, and flattened a land mass the size of Great Britain. I looked, at all times, for the nexus of structure and agency, for the conjunction of the natural and the confected, and for the point at which New Orleans' unique history intersected with this singular event.

Even Paranoids Have Enemies: Rumors of Levee Sabotage in New Orleans's Lower 9th Ward

Kelman, A. — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:07:45 PDT

This article explores the origin and implications of the rumor that government authorities intentionally destroyed the levee fronting New Orleans's lower 9th Ward during Hurricane Katrina. The author argues that these rumors should not be dismissed as fanciful conspiracy theories, but must instead be placed in the context of New Orleans's environmental history. That history includes numerous episodes in which commercial elites colluded with elected officials to place the city's poor and working classes in harm's way during urban disasters. As a result, the levee rumors during Hurricane Katrina may be understood as a form of resistance, a way in which displaced residents of the lower 9th Ward tried to shape the discourse about the causes and consequences of the hurricane, insisting that, rather than being understood as a so-called natural disaster, it must be understood as a human-constructed catastrophe.

Hurricane Katrina and the Myth of the Post--Civil Rights Era

Taylor, C. — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:07:45 PDT

Many writers, scholars, and activists contend that the civil rights movement is over and we are now in a new "post—civil rights era." Proponents of the post—civil rights notion contend that the civil rights movement was successful in its goal of eliminating legal discrimination. They also agree that black America is now facing a new set of problems not addressed by the civil rights objectives and tactics a generation ago. While a cross-section of critics support the idea of a post—civil rights era, they differ in their interpretation of the causes and solutions to the contemporary racial divide. In this article, the author analyzes three interrelated uses of the post—civil rights concept and question its utility in addressing the persistence of urban inequality and the unequal impact of Hurricane Katrina on the African American community.

Children of Omar: Resistance and Reliance in the Expressive Cultures of Black New Orleans Cultures

Griffin, F. J. — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:07:45 PDT

The history of black people in the United States is an epic saga of dislocation, dispersal, and dispossession. Consequently the instability, insecurity, and disruption that accompany displacement have been a persistent part of the black experience in the United States. The post-Katrina crisis confronted by black New Orleanians was yet another chapter in this ongoing saga. This article seeks to explore the ways in which the culture and music of New Orleans has functioned as a reservoir of human resilience and resistance. Specifically, in addition to reflections on the impact of enslavement, Jim Crow, and the Great Migration on the cultural history of black New Orleans, this article considers the cultural significance of the Crescent City in American history as one of the major reasons why issues of resettlement must be central to rebuilding efforts.

"Chocolate City": Personal Reflections from New Orleans, August 29, 2006

Taylor, D. K. — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:07:45 PDT

This article reflects on the political, institutional, and personal meanings of Katrina one year after the event and beyond. The author agues that the history of social injustice and economic inequality in New Orleans and the state of Louisiana exposed poor and working-class people to the brunt of Katrina's damage and undermined their capacity to rebuild their own lives in the hurricane's aftermath. The article also laments the failure of city officials to craft a comprehensive plan to rebuild the city and ensure that the levees would stand against future storms. Nonetheless, based upon efforts to rebuild Dillard University, the author believes that such institutional rebuilding activities will attract growing numbers of African Americans back to the Crescent City from the far-flung New Orleans Diaspora.

What Lies Beneath: Science, Nature, and the Making of Boston Harbor

Rawson, M. — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:07:45 PDT

The importance of good harbors to nineteenth-century cities cannot be overestimated. Many cities would not exist in their current forms—and might not exist at all—without access to the calm anchorage and deep ship channels embedded in their harbors. Yet urban and environmental historians have yet to study how the efforts to manage these complex natural systems shaped urban development. This article explores how a particular scientific theory used by nineteenth-century Bostonians to explain Boston Harbor's hydraulics influenced decisions about where to make new land along the city's coast. Subsequent shifts in scientific thought would show that the theory was wrong. But its legacy remains visible in Boston's very shape today, demonstrating that natural systems and our scientific understandings of them have played a central role in the construction of the urban environment.

Women Reformers Respond during the Depression: Battling St. Louis's Disease and Immorality

Wagman, J. S. — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:07:46 PDT

St. Louis women reformers worked to combat prostitution and educate citizens about sexually transmitted diseases during the Depression. Reformers took on problems not commonly discussed: sexuality, morality, and social disease. Women who staffed clinics, formed social hygiene committees, and promoted educational talks were also concerned with protecting monogamy and institutions of marriage and family. They elevated the professions of public health and social work, but positioned themselves as saviors of prostitutes and the working class. As long as reformers saved young women, families received blame for prostitution instead of the economy. This rationalization kept lower socioeconomic classes in place. This essay shows how city health officials and police relied on class and gender markers and visual clues of promiscuity when they could not arrest everyone with a sexually transmitted disease. It explores the way reformers elevated their professions while protecting self-interests, and failed to challenge the city's repressive policies.

Giving Directions in Spanish Town, Jamaica: Comprehending a Tropical Townscape

Robertson, J. — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:07:46 PDT

Travelers' descriptions of colonial and tropical towns were frequently dismissive. Asking how residents in such towns understood the streets they knew offers alternative perspectives. The contrasts between European expectations and local practices were particularly abrupt in Jamaica, where its English conquerors had reused the former Spanish capital. Alongside their familiarity with creole architecture, residents oriented themselves by where streets led to and the people who lived on them. Recognizing inhabitants' mental maps offers a counterbalance to the outsiders' "tourist gaze" that continues to shape discussions of cities in poor countries.

Review Essay: Shaping Boston's Site and Cleaning Its Harbor Waters

Tarr, J. A. — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:07:46 PDT

Review Essay: Surviving Slavery, Forging Freedom: Performance, Aurality, and (Perhaps) a New Paradigm for the Study of Slave Culture

Desrochers, R. E. — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:07:46 PDT

Review Essay: Progressivism, Democracy, and the City

Connolly, J. J. — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:07:46 PDT

Review Essay: Reinforcing Material History

Rilling, D. J. — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:07:46 PDT

Review Essay: Cars and the American City: Blanke, D. (2007). Hell on Wheels: The Promise and Peril of America's Car Culture, 1900-1940. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, pp. x, 266, notes, bibliography, index, illustrations, $34.95 cloth. Fotsch, P. M. (2007). Watching the Traffic Go By: Transportation and Isolation in Urban America. Austin: University of Texas Press, pp. xiv, 240, notes, bibliography, index, illustrations, $55 cloth, $22.95 paper. McCarthy, T. (2007). Auto Mania: Cars, Consumers, and the Environment. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, pp. xx, 347, notes, index, illustrations, $32.50 cloth. Norton, P. D. (2008). Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. xii, 396, notes, index, illustrations, $35.00 cloth. Rose, M. H., Seely, B. E., and Barrett, P. F. (2006). The Best Transportation System in the World: Railroads, Trucks, Airlines, and American Public Policy in the Twentieth Century. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, pp. xxvi, 318, notes, index, illustrations, $49.95 cloth, $9.95 CD

Ladd, B. — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:07:46 PDT

Architecture, Urban Planning, and Political Authority in Ludwig I's Munich

Hagen, J. — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 11:11:08 PDT

During the early nineteenth century, Bavarian King Ludwig I embarked on an ambitious building program aimed at transforming his capital city Munich into a material expression of his authority. Ludwig commissioned a series of museums, palaces, and monuments in an attempt to associate his reign with the greatness of ancient Greece and Renaissance Italy. Although Ludwig championed these projects as providing cultural enrichment for his subjects, political calculations played a paramount role. Ludwig's new Munich was framed around monumental buildings, squares, and boulevards meant to position the monarchy as an unassailable cultural and political authority.

Harlem Undercover: Vice Investigators, Race, and Prostitution, 1910--1930

Robertson, S. — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 11:11:08 PDT

In 1928, the Committee of Fourteen, New York City's leading private antivice organization, employed a black teacher to conduct a five-month undercover investigation of Harlem's night-life. It had been ten years since the committee had subjected the neighborhood to such intensive surveillance. Typically explained as the result of racism, that neglect also reflected white investigators' increasing inability to gather information in Harlem. This article explores the work of investigators and the racial dynamics of undercover investigations to show how those difficulties grew from the congregation of waves of new black migrants in the neighborhood and, as Prohibition drew whites to Harlem, blacks' retreat into private spaces, buffet flats, for their leisure. It uses the rich snapshot offered by the black investigator's reports to reveal how, in the 1920s, black prostitutes, rather than being successfully regulated, blended into these new black spaces.

Linear Planning and the Automobile: Hilarion Gonzalez del Castillo's Colonizing Motorway, 1927--1936

Coronado, J. M., Rodriguez, F. J., Urena, J. M. — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 11:11:08 PDT

Hilarión González del Castillo (HGC) has made a place for himself in the history of urbanism as propagandist for the Linear City and theoretical town planner. The appearance of the first motorway projects in Spain at the end of the 1920s, inspired him to propose a colonising motorway, that would take advantage of the infrastructure for the construction of linear cities. HGC's proposal had influence in the draft of some of the first Spanish motorways but has practically disappeared until the present. While few town planners of the age considered the role of the automobile (Le Corbusier, Benton Mackaye), HGC explained the relation of the motorways with the environment, spotting conflicts that passed unnoticed by the highway engineers. From this, the proposal evolved into an attempt to resolve the conflict between the intercity traffic and the urban activities situated on the margins of the motorway.

The City as National Resource: New Deal Conservation and the Quest for Urban Improvement

Light, J. S. — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 11:11:08 PDT

This article argues that the conservation movement provided a conceptual and organizational model for New Deal—era urban professionals eager to motivate federal and local investments in city improvement. During a period when research and policy for the scientific management of natural resources attracted broad support, city planners and real estate appraisers seeking professional legitimacy in a nation recently recognized to be urban saw in conservation new possibilities for articulating the urgency of their professional goals. Focusing on efforts by the National Resources Planning Board, Home Owners Loan Corporation, and Federal Housing Administration to transform ecological theories of cities from the social sciences into a national movement for urban community conservation offers insights into the impact of Americans' enduring preference for nature over cities on urban history during the New Deal.

Review Essay: Nature and Policy in the City: Environmental History and Urban History

Gugliotta, A. — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 11:11:08 PDT

Review Essay: Potholes on the Road to Civilization

Johnson, D. R. — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 11:11:08 PDT

Review Essay: Searching for the City in the Past: The Many Histories of New Orleans

Frink, S. M. — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 11:11:08 PDT

Review Essay: Working in America: Immigrants and the Working Class in the Late Twentieth-century United States

Wolfinger, J. — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 11:11:08 PDT

Race, Culture, Politics, and Urban Renewal: An Introduction

Avila, E., Rose, M. H. — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:55:34 PST

When historians refer to "urban renewal," they are not describing one singular policy. After 1945, as Andrew Highsmith, Irene Holliman, and Guian McKee show, leaders of renewal efforts in Flint, Atlanta, and Philadelphia assumed that a combination of slum clearance, office towers, and expressways would bring white, middle-class people back to downtown. Surprisingly, African American leaders in Flint and Atlanta often cooperated in these plans. In Philadelphia, however, Mayor Frank Rizzo, known as a racist, used renewal funds to create jobs for African American and Puerto Rican women. Federal officials also financed suburbanization, thus channeling resources away from the nation's inner cities and leaving behind a wake of dilapidated infrastructure and racialized poverty. White Americans attributed renewal and suburbanization to the work of markets, overlooking the decisive hand of politicians and public policy. The skewed effects of these renewal and suburbanization programs denote a time "when affirmative action was white."

Demolition Means Progress: Urban Renewal, Local Politics, and State-Sanctioned Ghetto Formation in Flint, Michigan

Highsmith, A. R. — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:55:34 PST

In 1960, city officials in Flint, Michigan, announced plans to demolish the St. John Street neighborhood. In support of the clearance project—which promised to replace a segregated black neighborhood with an industrial park and a freeway—executives from General Motors, municipal officials, and downtown boosters argued that redevelopment would provide more jobs and a growth-oriented future. Yet urban renewal in Flint was much more than a top-down campaign for growth. Many civil rights and neighborhood activists also supported St. John redevelopment, viewing urban renewal as an opportunity to secure new housing, desegregation, and clean air. Nevertheless, by the mid-1970s, corporate and city officials had triumphed over local civil rights activists, ultimately presiding over a renewal program that valued short-term industrial growth and ghetto containment over housing equity. Emphasizing state-sanctioned segregation, this article challenges the usefulness of de facto segregation as a descriptor of the North's color lines.

From Crackertown to Model City?: Urban Renewal and Community Building in Atlanta, 1963--1966

Holliman, I. V. — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:55:34 PST

This article uses Atlanta as a case study to examine how proponents of two visions of urban renewal came into conflict in the mid-1960s. Atlanta's mayor, aldermen, and city planners, in conjunction with a few white downtown business associations and some of the city's African American middle class, believed that the purpose of federal renewal funding was to ensure economic growth for the city, either by protecting central business district property values from nearby slums or by constructing new revenue-generating structures. Many of the city's poorer residents rallied alongside housing advocates, civil rights organizations, and neighborhood activists, believing that federal renewal funding should be used to replace deteriorating housing stock, whether with new public housing or low-cost housing built by private developers. This article demonstrates how and where leaders expressing these two visions of urban renewal competed for limited funds, site selection, and planning control.

"I've Never Dealt with a Government Agency Before": Philadelphia's Somerset Knitting Mills Project, the Local State, and the Missed Opportunities of Urban Renewal

McKee, G. A. — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:55:34 PST

In January 1974, Philadelphia's Somerset Knitting Mills Company announced plans for a new factory in the Franklin-Callowhill East Urban Renewal Area. The project received assistance from the Philadelphia Model Cities Administration and the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation—on the condition that Somerset employ neighborhood residents, mostly African Americans and Puerto Ricans, in its new plant. Confounding processes of deindustrialization and urban disinvestment, Somerset remained in its new building until 1992. This article contextualizes the project (and a related "Garment Center" for the local apparel industry) within the ideological and policy history of urban renewal. It argues that with their focus on countering deindustrialization and establishing community partnerships, the Somerset and Garment Center projects offered models of how urban renewal should have proceeded from its inception. The two projects also demonstrated that the local state can reconfigure supposedly "natural" market forces and counter the purportedly inevitable process of urban economic decline.

Review Essay: Urban Japanese, at Home and Overseas: Different Forms of Knowledge

Hastings, S. A. — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:55:34 PST

Review Essay: The Suburban Discourse: Fogelson, R. M. (2005). Bourgeois Nightmares: Suburbia, 1870--1930. New Haven: Yale University Press, pp. 264, illustrations, notes, index, $30 cloth. Beauregard, R. A. (2006). When America Became Suburban. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, pp. xvi, 271, illustrations, figures, notes, index, $57 cloth. Bruegmanna, R. (2006). Sprawl: A Compact History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 301, notes, bibliographic essay, index, $27.50 cloth, $17 paper

Mattingly, P. H. — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:55:34 PST

Review Essay: Landscape, American Communities, and Nineteenth-century Economic Change: Delano, S. F. (2004). Brook Farm: The Dark Side of Utopia. Cambridge, MA: Belknap, pp. xviii, 428, illustrations, notes, index, $29.95 cloth. Mosher, A. E. (2004). Capital's Utopia: Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, 1855-1916. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. xviii, 249, illustrations, maps, charts, appendix, notes, index, $45.00 cloth. Shaw, D. (2004). City Building on the Eastern Frontier: Sorting the New Nineteenth-Century City. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. xi, 212, illustrations, notes, index, $45.00 cloth

Moore, W. D. — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:55:34 PST

Review Essay: Health and the Politics of Race and Class: Humphreys, M. (2001). Malaria: Poverty, Race, and Public Health in the United States. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. xi, 196, notes, index, $41.50 cloth. Molina, N. (2006). Fit to Be Citizens? Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. xiv, 279, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, $50.00 hardcover, $19.95 paper. Moote, A. L., and Moote, D. C. (2004). The Great Plague: The Story of London's Most Deadly Year. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. xxi, 357, illustrations, tables, appendices, notes, index, $29.95 cloth. Shah, N. (2001). Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. xvi, 384, illustrations, figures, maps, notes, bibliography, index, $19.95 paper. Troesken, W. (2004). Water, Race, and Disease. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. xvii, 251, tables, notes, bibliography, index, $35.00 hardcover. Troesken, W. (2007). The Great Lead Water Pipe Disaster. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. x, 318, illustrations, tables, appendix, bibliography, index, $29.95 cloth

Haller, J. S. — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:55:34 PST

Review Essay: Expanding the Borders of Southern California Urban History: Dear, M., and Leclerc, G. (Eds.). (2003). Postborder City: Cultural Spaces of Bajalta California. New York: Routledge, pp. v, 306, illustrations, notes, index, $26.95 paper. Ford, L. R. (2005). Metropolitan San Diego. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, pp. ix, 240, illustrations, notes, index, $49.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. Orsi, J. (2004). Hazardous Metropolis: Flooding and Urban Ecology in Los Angeles. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. ix, 276, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, $39.95 cloth. Sackman, D. C. (2005). Orange Empire: California and the Fruits of Eden. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. ix, 386, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, $45.00 cloth

Rabinowitz Bussell, M. — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:55:34 PST

Review Essay: Race and the Politics of Suburbanization: Kruse, K. M. (2005). White Flight and the Making of Modern Conservatism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, pp. xiv, 325, 12 halftones, 12 maps, $35.00 cloth. Lassiter, M. D. (2005). The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, pp. xviii, 390, 23 halftones, 1 line illustration, 4 tables, 8 maps, $35.00 cloth. Seligman, A. I. (2005). Block by Block: Neighborhoods and Public Policy on Chicago's West Side. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. xiv, 301, 19 halftones, 8 maps, 1 figure, $65.00 cloth

Ferranti, M. — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:55:34 PST