Ipek Türeli. Istanbul Open City: Exhibiting Anxieties of Urban Modernity. Abingdon: Routledge, 2017. Illustrations. 184 pp. $140.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4094-2211-2.
Reviewed by Virginie Rey (University of California-Irvine) Published on H-Urban (October, 2018) Commissioned by Alexander Vari (Marywood University)
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Paul Dobraszczyk, Carlos López Galviz, Bradley L. Garrett, eds. Global Undergrounds: Exploring Cities Within. Islington: Reaktion Books, 2016. Illustrations. 320 pp. $29.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-78023-576-9.
Reviewed by Peter S. Soppelsa (University of Oklahoma) Published on H-Urban (July, 2018) Commissioned by Alexander Vari (Marywood University)
Aaron Freundschuh. The Courtesan and the Gigolo: The Murders in the Rue Montaigne and the Dark Side of Empire in Nineteenth-Century Paris. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016. 272 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5036-0082-9.
Reviewed by Elisa Camiscioli (SUNY-Binghamton) Published on H-Urban (May, 2018) Commissioned by Alexander Vari (Marywood University)
Simon Ward. Urban Memory and Visual Culture in Berlin: Framing the Asynchronous City 1957-2012. Cities and Cultures Series. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2016. 212 pp. $105.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-90-8964-853-2.
Reviewed by Jan Musekamp (Europa-Universität Viadrina) Published on H-Urban (February, 2018) Commissioned by Alexander Vari
Alexia M. Yates. Selling Paris: Property and Commercial Culture in the Fin-de-siècle Capital. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015. Maps, tables. 368 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-08821-4.
Reviewed by Philipp Reick (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Published on H-Urban (April, 2017) Commissioned by Alexander Vari
Antoine Lilti. The World of the Salons: Sociability and Worldliness in Eighteenth-Century Paris. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. 344 pp. $74.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-977234-6.
Reviewed by Jolanta Pekacz (Dalhousie University) Published on H-Urban (December, 2016) Commissioned by Alexander Vari
In Pursuit of Pleasure: Salons as Worldly Sociability in Eighteenth-Century Paris
Harold Bérubé. Des sociétés distinctes: Gouverner les banlieues bourgeoises de Montréal, 1880-1939. Studies on the History of Quebec Series. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2015. 288 pp. $100.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7735-4393-5; $37.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7735-4392-8.
Reviewed by Dan Horner (Ryerson University) Published on H-Urban (December, 2015) Commissioned by Alexander Vari
Mary Lindemann. The Merchant Republics: Amsterdam, Antwerp, and Hamburg, 1648-1790. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 374 pp. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-07443-9.
Reviewed by Donald Harreld (Brigham Young University) Published on H-Urban (October, 2015) Commissioned by Alexander Vari
The Virtues of Merchant Republics
Brigitte Le Normand. Designing Tito's Capital: Urban Planning, Modernism, and Socialism in Belgrade. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014. Illustrations. 320 pp. $27.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8229-6299-1.
Reviewed by Tijana Stevanović (Newcastle University) Published on H-Urban (August, 2015) Commissioned by Alexander Vari
The Freedom to Choose: The Housing Question and Self-Managed Urban Planning in Belgrade
Matthew Gandy. The Fabric of Space: Water, Modernity, and the Urban Imagination. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2014. 368 pp. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-262-02825-7.
Reviewed by Eliza Martin (Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi) Published on H-Urban (August, 2015) Commissioned by Alexander Vari
Exploring Hydraulic Spaces
Filip De Boeck, Marie-Francoise Plissart. Kinshasa: Tales of the Invisible City. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2014. 288 pp. $59.00 (paper), ISBN 978-90-5867-967-3.
Reviewed by Jeremy M. Rich (Marywood University) Published on H-Urban (August, 2015) Commissioned by Alexander Vari
An Urban Ethnography of Kinshasa
Marieluise Jonas, Heike Rahmann. Tokyo Void: Possibilities in Absence. Berlin: Jovis, 2014. Illustrations. 192 pp. $39.95 (paper), ISBN 978-3-86859-272-6.
Reviewed by Milica Muminovic (University of Canberra, Faculty of Arts & Design) Published on H-Urban (June, 2015) Commissioned by Heide Imai
Anke Haarmann. Shanghai (Urban Public) Space. Berlin: Jovis, 2009. 192 pp. $29.80 (paper), ISBN 978-3-86859-026-5.
Reviewed by Milica Muminovic (Keio University) Published on H-Urban (June, 2015) Commissioned by Heide Imai
Vera Candiani. Dreaming of Dry Land: Environmental Transformation in Colonial Mexico City. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014. Maps. 408 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8047-8805-2.
Reviewed by Sterling Evans (Univ. of Oklahoma) Published on H-Urban (April, 2015) Commissioned by Leandro Benmergui
The Desagüe of Mexico City
Catriona Kelly. St Petersburg: Shadows of the Past. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. xvi + 464 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-16918-8.
Reviewed by Heather DeHaan (Binghamton University) Published on H-Urban (February, 2015) Commissioned by Alexander Vari
Recollections of the Everyday: An Interior History of Petersburg
