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Late-Soviet Collective Housing: Self-Help Construction and Self-Management in Youth Residential Complex Housing Movement Journal of Urban History (IF 0.347) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Nikolay Erofeev
In the Soviet era, a long-lasting idea of collective housing was implemented in various forms, most notably, constructivist “house-communes” (doma-kommuny) of the 1920s. This article considers less-known realization of collective housing in late-Soviet Russia, by focusing on the project of “Youth Residential Complex” (MZhK). Starting in 1968, this project was declared as an experiment, in which residents
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Mediating Planning Discourses: Medium, Interface, and Fusion Journal of Urban History (IF 0.347) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Richard Hu
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Urban History on the Seam: Frankfurt’s Judengasse and the Early Modern City Journal of Urban History (IF 0.347) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Debra Kaplan
This article examines the nexus between the Jewish ghetto in Frankfurt am Main (built in 1462) and a neighboring street, Wollgraben. Utilizing Jewish communal sources in Hebrew and Yiddish, German municipal records, and contemporary maps, it traces the development of the ghetto against the backdrop of urban expansion and population growth. Although the Jews were technically confined to the ghetto,
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The Politics of Blight: Recent Literature on Urban Renewal Journal of Urban History (IF 0.347) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Jonathan Marty
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Crisis and Faith: Urban Religion in the Twentieth-Century United States Journal of Urban History (IF 0.347) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Suzanna Krivulskaya
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Pictured, Processed, Remembered: Berlin 1944-2019 Journal of Urban History (IF 0.347) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Miriam Paeslack
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A Room in the Film Capital: The Social Economy of Lodging and Urban Change in Hollywood during the 1930s Journal of Urban History (IF 0.347) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Frederick Bode
In Central Hollywood, during the 1930s, population became denser, housing values declined, and rooming houses increasingly defined much of the neighborhood. The lodging population was mostly white and native-born (but with significant Asian minorities), young, transient, and maritally unattached. They constituted a working class that was often precariously employed in the entertainment industry, the
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Call to Piety: The Role of Adhan in the Shaping Rumi Identity and Governmental Authority Journal of Urban History (IF 0.347) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Hasan Baran Fırat
This study aims to reveal the intricacies of individual acoustic communication systems that have operated in Istanbul for years, with a focus on the Muslim call to prayer, adhan. Being the bearers of society’s religious, cultural, and social values, the religious signals have always been more than mere sounds and have been held in high regard for centuries. The power they embodied made them an essential
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The Urban Question in the Age of Innocence and Convergence Journal of Urban History (IF 0.347) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Clovis Ultramari, Rodrigo José Firmino, Ariadne dos Santos Daher
This is a discussion of how the “urban question” became a topic of general interest in the media, based on a bibliometric analysis of newspapers from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century, targeting a specific process of urbanization in the United States, hinting at how the public perception of urban studies came to attract different fields of research and how new responsibilities
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Historical Evolution of Trade Fairs against Urban Evolution: Divergence and Convergence of Thessaloniki Fair with International Practice Journal of Urban History (IF 0.347) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Dimitris Kourkouridis, Ioannis Frangopoulos, Nikolaos Kapitsinis
This paper conceptualizes trade fairs as complex socio-spatial phenomena, which are constantly transformed, following socio-economic change, and reflect aspects of social and urban life. Methodologically, we apply a longitudinal systematic comparative analysis of historical fair evolution between international practice and the case of the city of Thessaloniki, exploring convergence and divergence,
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Referentiality of Generic Structures: Critique of Capitalist Urban Development in Works of Ludwig Hilberseimer, Archizoom, and Dogma Studio Journal of Urban History (IF 0.347) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Tijana Mačkić, Pavle Stamenović
This article is based on the analysis of the referential relationship within three concepts for the development of the urban matrix: High-rise City by Ludwig Hilberseimer (1924), No-Stop City by studio Archizoom Associati (1969), and Stop City by architectural office DOGMA (2007). The three projects represent a critique of the growth and development of the city within the economic system and the sociocultural
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Refugee Placemaking and Community in San Francisco: Building a Little Saigon Community in San Francisco, from the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation Archives (1980-2000) Journal of Urban History (IF 0.347) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Minh Q. Nguyen
The article draws from Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation (TNDC) archival materials, housed in the San Francisco History Center, to present a case study of how post-1975 Vietnam War refugees (from Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia) and a collection of actors collectively affected the local space (1980-2000). This article (1) examines the discourse of “neighborhood stabilization” amidst housing
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“The Cité Is Yours”: Colonial Modernization and Dakar’s Postcolonial Suburban Dream Journal of Urban History (IF 0.347) Pub Date : 2024-01-28 Gregory Valdespino
This article explains the postcolonial endurance of colonial modernization plans by examining the history and memory of Dakar’s postwar SICAP suburbs. In 1950, Senegal’s French colonial regime made the Société Immobilière du Cap-Vert (SICAP) which built thousands of homes on the edges of Dakar, primarily for African salaried workers. French leaders claimed SICAP houses would help “modernize” the city
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The Colonial City: Empire, Authenticity, and Urban Imagination at the 1906 Marseille Colonial Exposition Journal of Urban History (IF 0.347) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Katherine Taylor Smith
This article examines the significance of the 1906 French Colonial Exposition in Marseille by situating it in its local, urban context. Rather than promoting solely national or imperial interests, local Marseille elites such as Jules Charles-Roux and Edouard Heckel sought to use the Colonial Exposition to demonstrate the central role played by their city in French trade and industry. To assert Marseille’s
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Dynamic Urban Thresholds: Relationships between Form and Activities in Porta Ticinese, Milano Journal of Urban History (IF 0.347) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Álvaro Clua Uceda
The article approaches the dynamic condition of the urban form and activities of the so-called “urban thresholds,” spaces located in between different city fabrics. The study is based on a comparative analysis of seven maps representing key historical moments of Porta Ticinese’s area in Milano from 1807 to 2022, produced through geographical information system-based reconstruction techniques of original
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How “Neighborhood” Arose, Changed, and Grew: A Bilingual Canadian Story Journal of Urban History (IF 0.347) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Richard Harris
“Neighborhood” is routinely used when referring to the history of residential areas in North American cities. In fact, it is unclear whether this has always been the preferred term, and how its mea...
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Fractures within Fair Housing: The Battle for the Memory and Legacy of the Long Fair Housing Movement Journal of Urban History (IF 0.347) Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Nichole Nelson
This article examines how white supremacy diluted the nationwide struggle to eliminate racial residential segregation known as the Fair Housing Movement. As the sole civil rights organization dedic...
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Fragmented Emergency: Sirens, Cellphones, and Sonic Spatialization in Israel Journal of Urban History (IF 0.347) Pub Date : 2023-04-22 Dotan Halevy
Israel’s civil defense apparatus relies upon a technologically advanced alarm system. Once a rocket is detected, a cellphone app alerts the residents of the targeted area, and only the sirens locat...
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The Geography of Surveillance: Spatial and Temporal Patterning of Police Surveillance Following Arrest in the First Years of the Special Tribunal in Fascist Italy, 1925-1928 Journal of Urban History (IF 0.347) Pub Date : 2023-04-22 Antonio Barocci
Between 1925 and 1928, a fundamental strategy of the Italian fascist regime was the imposition of a political court, the Special Tribunal for the Defense of the State [Tribunale Speciale per la Dif...
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The Housing Project of Well Hall Garden Suburb and the Production of Spaces in First World War Britain Journal of Urban History (IF 0.347) Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Assaf Mond Havardi
“Mother went in to work tonight, how I hate her on Sunday work!,” wrote fourteen years old Kathleen Biddlecombe in her diary, on Sunday, January 13, 1918. Kathleen and her family lived on 6 Cobbett...
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Imagining Residential Segregation before the Ghetto: Representations of Black Urban Space and Mobility in the “Darktown” Comics, 1877-1900 Journal of Urban History (IF 0.347) Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Colin L. Anderson
Examining Currier and Ives’s immensely popular and racist lithographic print series, the “Darktown” comics, from 1877 to 1900, this article argues that the prints represented homogeneous black urba...
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“We Are without God Now”: Benign Neglect and Planned Destruction of Brooklyn’s Bushwick Neighborhood Journal of Urban History (IF 0.347) Pub Date : 2023-02-04 Mario Hernandez
Focusing on the neighborhood of Bushwick from the post–World War II (WWII) era to the onset of the neighborhood’s gentrification, this paper traces the fundamental significance of race in the polic...
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Growing Up Together: Brooklyn’s Truant School and the Carceral and Educational State, 1857-1924 Journal of Urban History (IF 0.347) Pub Date : 2023-01-18 Judith Kafka
This article uses the history of Brooklyn’s Truant School from its inception in 1857 to its demise in 1924 to highlight the interconnected rationales for public education and juvenile incarceration...
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The Precinct of the Dead and Saints for the Nation: The Bolivian National Revolution and Gualberto Villarroel, 1943-1956 Journal of Urban History (IF 0.347) Pub Date : 2023-01-13 Luis M. Sierra
This article focuses on Major Gualberto Villarroel’s dictatorship in Bolivia (1943-1946), his murder, and the reanimation of his memory as a Bolivian national hero by the MNR party or Movimiento Na...
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Where Protection Meets Punishment: Public Education and the Carceral State in Urban America Journal of Urban History (IF 0.347) Pub Date : 2023-01-12 Walter C. Stern
This essay calls upon scholars in the largely siloed fields of history of education and carceral studies to examine the history of American education and criminal legal systems in tandem rather tha...
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Disciplining Our Own: Politicizing the Image of the Strict Black Principals, 1970-1985 Journal of Urban History (IF 0.347) Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Mahasan Offutt-Chaney
Between the 1970s and 1980s, a bipartisan group of philanthropists, educational researchers, and eventually the Ronald Reagan administration politicized the image of the strict school disciplinaria...
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“The Police State in Franklin K. Lane”: Desegregation, Student Resistance, and the Carceral Turn at a New York City High School Journal of Urban History (IF 0.347) Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Noah Remnick
This essay seeks to understand the origins, development, and consequences of school policing and student discipline at Franklin K. Lane High School in New York City. During the fevered years of the...
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From Segregation to Suspension: The Solidification of the Contemporary School-Prison Nexus in Boston, 1963-1985 Journal of Urban History (IF 0.347) Pub Date : 2023-01-02 Matthew B. Kautz
Current scholarship emphasizes the adoption of “zero-tolerance” policies as the cause of the punitive turn in school discipline. The focus on “zero tolerance,” however, has obscured how and for wha...
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“Stop Talking and Act”: The Battle between Tough on Crime Policing and Guardianship of Black Juvenile Gangs in Philadelphia, 1958-1969 Journal of Urban History (IF 0.347) Pub Date : 2023-01-02 Menika Dirkson
The 1958 robbery and murder of international student, In-Ho Oh, by eleven black teenagers in West Philadelphia created public outcry on the issue of black gangs in desegregating neighborhoods. The ...
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Mapping the Contours of Black Juvenile Delinquency: The Journal of Negro Education, 1945-1975 Journal of Urban History (IF 0.347) Pub Date : 2023-01-02 Deirdre Mayer Dougherty
This essay draws on media studies methodologies to map the ways in which the Journal of Negro Education (JNE) defined juvenile delinquency both as a legal and social construct and how its contribut...
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Arresting the Demand for Drugs: DARE and the School–Police Nexus in Los Angeles Journal of Urban History (IF 0.347) Pub Date : 2022-12-30 Max Felker-Kantor
The DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) program simultaneously changed both the police and schools through the development of what this article calls a school–police nexus, a framing that explai...
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“If you want police, we will have them”: Anti-Black Student Discipline in Southern Schools and the Rise of a New Carceral Logic, 1961-1975 Journal of Urban History (IF 0.347) Pub Date : 2022-12-30 Jon N. Hale, Candace Livingston
This paper examines the southern influence and litigation around carceral logic in public education, as evident in the racialized disciplinary codes and police presence in schools that led to the c...
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“You Know It When You See It”: Drug Nuisance Property and the Carceral Management of Racialized Disinvestment in Philadelphia Journal of Urban History (IF 0.347) Pub Date : 2022-12-30 Jackson Smith
In 1991, Philadelphia prosecutors formed the Public Nuisance Task Force (PNTF) to close bars they accused of harboring narcotics activity. Between the early 1990s and the late 2010s, the PNTF would...
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Separating the Men from the Boys: The John Worthy School (1891-1916) Journal of Urban History (IF 0.347) Pub Date : 2022-12-14 Susan M. Garneau
The John Worthy School (JWS) was created at the turn of the twentieth century to house younger male misdemeanants within Chicago’s House of Correction separately from older offenders. The JWS refle...
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Stigmatizing Street Vendors and Market Traders: The Case of Amsterdam from a Historical Perspective Journal of Urban History (IF 0.347) Pub Date : 2022-12-10 Emil van Eck, Jan Rath
This article contributes to the debate on the stigmatization of street vendors and market traders by illuminating the moralizing and disciplinary state interventions that city officials used in Ams...
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A Big League Minneapolis or a Cold Omaha: Professional Sports and the Promise of Downtown Growth in the Campaign to Build the Metrodome Journal of Urban History (IF 0.347) Pub Date : 2022-12-10 Brian Tochterman
Since the 1990s, cities and professional sports franchises have engaged in a frenzied competition to maintain or lure teams, build modern amenity-laden venues, and revitalize underdeveloped or unde...
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Business as Usual: Ethnic Commerce and the Making of a Mexican American Middle Class in Southeast Los Angeles, 1981-1995 Journal of Urban History (IF 0.347) Pub Date : 2022-12-08 G. Aron Ramirez
This article examines the entrepreneurial and consumptive habits of Mexican Americans in Downey, California, during the 1980s and 1990s. It shows how Mexican Americans avoided ethnic entrepreneursh...
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Slums, Villas Miseria, and Barriadas: Why Terms Matter Journal of Urban History (IF 0.347) Pub Date : 2022-12-08 Adriana Laura Massidda
Building upon previous debates surrounding the English-language term slum, this article argues that slum stigmatizes the spaces and subjects that it refers to not only because it evokes nineteenth-...
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The City of the Missing: Poetic Responses to the Grenfell Fire Journal of Urban History (IF 0.347) Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Dominic Davies
This essay is about the representation and recognition of the victims and survivors of the Grenfell fire disaster in poetry written since June 14, 2017. It begins by arguing that the fire was cause...
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Situating Slums in Hegemonic Urban Discourse: A Historiography of English-Language Architecture and Planning Journals Journal of Urban History (IF 0.347) Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Alejandro de Castro Mazarro
Over recent years, the political critique of the characterization of slums has progressively developed within hegemonic urban planning discourse. In planning history, however, the emergence of slum...
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Mediating and Representing the Slum: An Introduction Journal of Urban History (IF 0.347) Pub Date : 2022-12-06 Jason Finch, Maxwell Woods
As a lexical concept, slum has been widely criticized by twenty-first-century researchers, but the formulation and spread of the concept have profoundly altered actual cities in many parts of the w...
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Naming and Blaming: Civic Shame and Slum Journalism in Late Nineteenth-Century and Early Twentieth-Century Manchester and Birmingham Journal of Urban History (IF 0.347) Pub Date : 2022-12-02 Carole O’Reilly
This study analyzes slum journalism in the British provincial press and reveals that it continued to be a major theme until well into the twentieth century. Instead of the rather moralizing reporti...
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The Origin of Slum as a Trans-Class Concept Journal of Urban History (IF 0.347) Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Jason Finch
The slum concept originated as a descriptor for trans-class, or urban majority, environments in and around which people of different social levels lived in close proximity to each other. This artic...
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Abandon the Slum? Toward an Alternative Recognition of Urban Informal Dwelling Journal of Urban History (IF 0.347) Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Paroj Banerjee
The focus on urban poverty in the Global South has centered on slum-centric discussions of urban marginality to explain the supposed crisis of Third World cities. Evidently, ideological and materia...
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Thinking from the Barrio: Location, Modernity, and the Popular in Alejandro Moreno Journal of Urban History (IF 0.347) Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Carlos Colmenares Gil
This article examines and criticizes the question of the slum and some of its contemporary approaches in order to propose another way of framing such a question, one that emerges from the slum itse...
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Can the Slumdweller Speak? James Joyce and Mediating Dublin Slum Discourse Journal of Urban History (IF 0.347) Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Maxwell Woods
The concern of this article surrounds the discourse of recent calls by elite researchers to do away with the “s-word,” to quote Mike Davis’s endorsement of Alan Mayne’s (2017) groundbreaking new st...
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Patrolling and Controlling the Streets: The Origin of School Safety Patrols in New York City Journal of Urban History (IF 0.347) Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Kipton D. Smilie
The rise of automobile use in New York City in the 1920s placed pedestrians, particularly children and adolescents, in a new danger. Fatalities and injuries among youth involving automobile acciden...
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Bicycle-Oriented Development: How the Dutch Railroad Shaped Urban Planning and Discovered Cyclists along the Way, 1960-1990 Journal of Urban History (IF 0.347) Pub Date : 2022-11-11 Jan Ploeger, Ruth Oldenziel
Scholars often describe the history of Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) from an exclusive urban development perspective (linear or finger cities) or from a limited mobility perspective (Public Tr...
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“Neighborhood Nightmares”: Drug Dens, Finance, and the Political Economy of the Crack Crisis Journal of Urban History (IF 0.347) Pub Date : 2022-10-07 David Helps
During the 1980s, legislation to deregulate mortgage and real estate markets unleashed new levels of predatory lending and speculation in the low-income Black and Latinx neighborhoods of Los Angele...
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Public Works, Spatial Strategies, and Mobility in Late Medieval Ghent Journal of Urban History (IF 0.347) Pub Date : 2022-10-01 Janna Coomans, Léa Hermenault
This article argues that medieval urban authorities developed nodal spatial strategies to mitigate various risks—from accidents, floods, and military vulnerability to sickness and scarcity. Using d...
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In a Toxic City Beautiful: Harvey Washington Wiley, the Model City, and the Authenticity of Science in the Nation’s Capital Journal of Urban History (IF 0.347) Pub Date : 2022-09-29 Vincent L. Femia
Surrounding the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, government chemist Harvey Washington Wiley and the Bureau of Chemistry at the Department of Agriculture conducted experiments in Washi...
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Reimagining Black Conservatism: The Invisible Black Community and the Forgotten War on “Black-on-Black Crime” during the Post–World War II Urban Crisis (1970s-1980s) Journal of Urban History (IF 0.347) Pub Date : 2022-09-02 Chanelle Rose
This article examines how the post–World War II urban crisis of “Black-on-Black crime” provides a case study for understanding the nuances of modern Black conservatism during the 1970s. It complica...
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Coaches, Sleighs, and Speed in the Street: “Vehicularization” in Early Modern Amsterdam Journal of Urban History (IF 0.347) Pub Date : 2022-09-02 Bob Pierik
Throughout urban Europe, the introduction and presence of vehicles in the city caused tensions of safety and scarcity of space. This article discusses the vehicle culture of early modern Amsterdam,...
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History and Archeology of Urban Decline: Rome during the Medieval Climate Anomaly Journal of Urban History (IF 0.347) Pub Date : 2022-08-26 Anna Gutgarts, Ronnie Ellenblum
In this article, we suggest a new analysis of the decline and abandonment of medieval urban landscapes, using as a case study the thoroughly excavated and documented Caelian Hill in Rome during the...
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The Exception that Became the Rule: A History of First-Generation Rent Control in Italy (1915-1978) Journal of Urban History (IF 0.347) Pub Date : 2022-08-17 Aurora Iannello
This paper retraces the history of Italy’s first-generation rent control—a strict system of nominal rent freezes—from its adoption in 1915 to its final dismantling in 1978. It investigates the poli...
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Markets, Merchants, and the State in Early Medieval Western India Journal of Urban History (IF 0.347) Pub Date : 2022-07-08 Geetika Gupta
The paper seeks to look into the role played by the rulers and the merchant class in the emergence of exchange centers (or market centers) in Western India, particularly Rajasthan and Gujarat, during the early medieval period. The paper tries to examine the combined efforts made by both the ruling class and private individuals in the agrarian expansion, which in turn encouraged exchange (trade and
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Forging an Anti-Racist Praxis: Housing Discrimination against Ottoman Greek Immigrants in Early-Twentieth-Century Portland and Seattle Journal of Urban History (IF 0.347) Pub Date : 2022-06-30 Yiorgo Topalidis
Whiteness provides its possessors with the privilege of homeownership without racial restrictions and obstructs black, brown, and Indigenous people. I examine that privilege for the Ottoman Greeks, an early-twentieth-century Southeastern European immigrant cohort to the United States. To conduct the examination, I analyze data from the Dictionary of Races or Peoples, the Segregated Seattle Project
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There Grows the City: A Long History of Urban Agriculture in Milwaukee, Wisconsin Journal of Urban History (IF 0.347) Pub Date : 2022-06-25 Michael Carriere, David Schalliol
A dominant interpretation of the twentieth-century U.S. city is one of declension, wherein cities contracted following a number of profound ruptures. At these moments, neoliberalism began its ascent, disconnecting the historical processes that created the city from the current policies and realities of American urban centers. By documenting the histories of urban agriculture in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Rats, Gender, and Representation in the War on Poverty: How Cleveland Welfare Rights Activists Defined Democracy, 1964-1966 Journal of Urban History (IF 0.347) Pub Date : 2022-06-25 Kimberly Stahler
In 1965, impoverished Clevelanders and their allies brought dead rats to City Hall to demonstrate that they alone had the required expertise to write antipoverty policy. They used the rats to educate their representatives about poverty conditions after their unsucessful struggle to gain control over the local War on Poverty. Scholarship on the War on Poverty and welfare rights movement has uncovered
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Addressing the Modern Regimes of Urban Spectacle: Revisiting the Ottoman General Exhibition of 1863 in Istanbul Journal of Urban History (IF 0.347) Pub Date : 2022-06-21 Ahmet Erdem Tozoglu
One of the most spectacular events of the Ottoman experience of modernity was the inauguration of the Ottoman General Exposition in Istanbul in 1863. The ancient Hippodrome, which is one of the most prominent venues of the city and the setting of memorable celebrations and festivals for centuries, hosted the event and provided the visitors with the opportunity to become part of the modern regimes of