ToC: Journal of Urban History March 2023 (Volume 50: no. 2)

Table of Contents

The Journal of Urban History is pleased to announce the table of contents for the March 2023

issue. 

Journal of Urban History

Volume 50, Number 2/March 2023

Articles

The Urban Spatial Pattern of the Pseudo-Colonial City in Southeast Asia: A Case Study of the Eastern Area of Bangkok, Thailand, during the Thai-Imperialism Period (1855-1932)

            Nicha Tantivess and David Edelman

The Second Line of the Leningrad/ Saint Petersburg Metro between Old and New Urban Structures

            Phillip Schroeder

Recognizing Principles of Integrated Urban Planning in Historical Development of the City: A Case Study of Banja Luka

            Brankica Milojevic and Igor Kuvac                                                                                                  

Dams and the Age of Abundance: Hydraulic Boosterism, Regional Growth, and the Reemergence of Water Scarcity in Central Texas

Andrew M. Busch

Planning Practice in Latin America: The Legacy of the Traveler Urbanists and Other Vertical Dialogues

            Fernanda Cantarim and Clovis Ultramari                                         

“Snet,” Our Man in Miami: Urban Tourism, Illegal Gambling, and the Challenge of a Sinful Southern City, 1941-1944   

Keith Revell

Goon Squad Democracy? The Rise of Vigilant Citizenship through Victim Support and Neighborhood Watches in Amsterdam (1980-1990)

            Willem De Jong

“We Are without God Now”: Benign Neglect and Planned Destruction of Brooklyn’s Bushwick Neighborhood

            Mario Hernandez       

How and Why U.S. Single-Family Housing Became an Investor Asset Class

            Brett Christophers

Review Essays

Socialist Architecture and Planning as Global Expertise

Juliana Maxim

Elidor Mëhilli (2017). From Stalin to Mao: Albania and the Socialist World. Ithaca, NY: Cornell

University Press, xvi + 329 pp., $39.95 (hardback).

Łukasz Stanek (2020). Architecture in Global Socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the

Middle East in the Cold War. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 368 pp., $60 (hardback).

Vladimir Kulić, ed. (2019). Second World Postmodernisms: Architecture and Society under Late

Socialism. London: Bloomsbury, xii + 254 pp., $102 (hardback).

“Natural and Cultural Treasures”: On Access and Activism in Building Urban Park Systems in Seattle and New York/ New Jersey

Erin Becker-Boris

Robert O. Binnewies (2021). Palisades: The People’s Park. New York: Fordham University

Press, 424 pp., illustrations, index, $39.95 paper, $38.99 (e-book).

Jennifer Ott, ed. (2019). Olmsted in Seattle: Creating a Park System for a Modern City. Seattle:

History Link / Documentary Media, 155 pp., bibliography, index, illustrations, maps, $29.95 (paper).

Economies of Scale: Civic Space and Civil Rights in the Modern Consumer City

Elizabeth White Nelson

Traci Parker (2019). Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement – Workers,

Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1980s. Chapel Hill: The University of North

Carolina Press, xxiii + 236 pp., illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, $27.95 (paper).

Emily Remus (2019). A Shoppers’ Paradise: How the Ladies of Chicago Claimed Power and

Pleasure in the New Downtown. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 231 pp., illustrations,

notes, acknowledgements, index, $39.95 (cloth).

Good Trouble

Chris Rasmussen

Erik S. Gellman (2020). Troublemakers: Chicago Freedom Struggles through the Lens of Art

Shay. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 224 pp., illustrations, acknowledgments, notes,

index, $35.00 (cloth).   

Elizabeth Hinton (2021). America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black

Rebellion since the 1960s. New York: Liveright, 308 pp., illustrations, acknowledgments, notes,

index, $29.95 (cloth).

Kathryn Schumaker (2019). Troublemakers: Students’ Rights and Racial Justice in the Long

1960s. New York: New York University Press, 214 + ix pp., acknowledgments, notes, index,

$45.00 (cloth).