Public spaces

Sun-Young Park. Ideals of the Body: Architecture, Urbanism, and Hygiene in Postrevolutionary Paris. Culture, Politics, and the Built Environment Series. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018. Illustrations. xi + 372 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8229-4528-4. 

Silvia Bermúdez, Anthony L. Geist, eds. Cartographies of Madrid: Contesting Urban Space at the Crossroads of the Global South and Global North. Hispanic Issues Series. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2019. 232 pp. $39.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8265-2215-3.

Reviewed by Benjamin Fraser (The University of Arizona) Published on H-Urban (November, 2019) Commissioned by Alexander Vari (Marywood University)

Shawn William Miller. The Street Is Ours: Community, the Car, and the Nature of Public Space in Rio de Janeiro. Cambridge Latin American Studies Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Illustrations, maps. 362 pp. $120.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-42697-8.

Reviewed by Yuri Gama (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Published on H-LatAm (March, 2019) Commissioned by Casey M. Lurtz (Johns Hopkins University)

Lisa Benton-Short. The National Mall: No Ordinary Public Space. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016. 296 pp. $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4426-3054-3; $32.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4426-3055-0.

Reviewed by Mark A. Barron (Iowa State University) Published on H-FedHist (July, 2017) Commissioned by Caryn E. Neumann

Reiko Hillyer. Designing Dixie: Tourism, Memory, and Urban Space in the New South. The American South Series. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2014. xi + 266 pp. $46.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8139-3670-3.

Reviewed by Stephen E. Nepa (Temple University) Published on H-SAWH (August, 2015) Commissioned by Lisa A. Francavilla

Designing Dixie: Tourism, Memory, and Urban Space in the New South

Reiko Hillyer. Designing Dixie: Tourism, Memory, and Urban Space in the New South. The American South Series. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2014. xi + 266 pp. $46.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8139-3670-3.

Reviewed by William A. Link (University of Florida) Published on H-SHGAPE (June, 2015) Commissioned by K. Stephen Prince

Reconsidering the New South

Todd A. Henry. Assimilating Seoul: Japanese Rule and the Politics of Public Space in Colonial Korea, 1910-1945. Asia Pacific Modern Series. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014. 320 pp. $49.95 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-520-95841-8; $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-520-27655-0.

Reviewed by Janet Poole (University of Toronto) Published on H-Diplo (April, 2015) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach

Colonial Seoul’s Contact Zones