Domenic Vitiello

Machine Building and City Building: Urban Planning and Industrial Restructuring in Philadelphia, 1894-1928
Journal of Urban History 2008 34: 399-434. [Abstract] [PDF] [References]  

Robert Cassanello

Avoiding "Jim Crow": Negotiating Separate and Equal on Florida's Railroads and Streetcars and the Progressive Era Origins of the Modern Civil Rights Movement
Journal of Urban History 2008 34: 435-457. [Abstract] [PDF] [References]  

Jesús Mirás Araujo

The Commercial Sector in an Early-Twentieth Century Spanish City, La Coruña 1914-1935
Journal of Urban History 2008 34: 458-483. [Abstract] [PDF] [References]  

Kathy Arthurson

Australian Public Housing and the Diverse Histories of Social Mix
Journal of Urban History 2008 34: 484-501. [Abstract] [PDF] [References]  

Stephanie Ryberg

Review Essay: Complex Histories and Local Identities: JOHN J. CZAPLICKA AND BLAIR A. RUBLE, eds., Composing Urban History and the Constitution of Civic Identities. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003, pp. xiv, 430, illustrations, tables, notes, index, $59.95 cloth. MARTIN V. MELOSI AND PHILIP SCARPINO, eds., Public History and the Environment. Malabar, FL: Krieger, 2004, pp. xiv, 291, illustration, notes, index, $38.50 cloth. MAX PAGE AND RANDALL MASON, eds., Giving Preservation a History: Histories of Historic Preservation in the United States. New York: Routledge, 2004, pp. vii, 344, illustrations, notes, index, $24.95 cloth
Journal of Urban History 2008 34: 502-510. [PDF] [References]  

David B. Wolcott

Review Essay: At a Crossroads? Diverging Paths in the History of Crime: ANDREW WENDER COHEN, The Racketeer's Progress: Chicago and the Struggle for the Modern American Economy, 1900-1940. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. xviii, 333, illustrations, index, notes, bibliography, $60.00 cloth. ERIC H. MONKKONEN, Crime, Justice, History. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2002, pp. xi, 293, tables, illustrations, notes, references, index, $49.95 cloth. EDUARDO OBREGON PAGAN, Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon: Zoot Suits, Race and Riot in Wartime Los Angeles. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003, pp. 312, illustrations, tables, maps, appendices, notes, bibliography, index, $49.95 cloth, $19.95 paper
Journal of Urban History 2008 34: 511-519. [PDF] [References]  

John F. Bauman

Review Essay: The American Downtown: Sagas of Race, Place, and Space ROBERT M. FOGELSON, Downtown: Its Rise and Fall, 1880-1950. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001, pp. 492, illustrations, notes, index, $50 cloth, $22 paper. ANASTASIA LOUKAITOU-SIDERIS and TRIDIB BANERJEE, Urban Design Downtown: Poetics and Politics of Form. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998, pp. xxix, 350, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, $40.00 cloth. ALISON ISENBERG, Downtown America: A History of the Place and the People Who Made It. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004, pp. xvii, 441, illustrations, index, notes, $32.50 cloth
Journal of Urban History 2008 34: 520-531. [PDF] [References]  

Darius Sollohub

Review Essay: The Machine in Society: BRIAN J. CUDAHY, Rails Under the Mighty Hudson: The Story of the Hudson Tubes and the Pennsy Tunnels and Manhattan Tunnels. Bronx, NY: Fordham University Press, 2002, pp. 112, illustrations, appendixes, bibliography, $20 paperback. JANET F. DAVIDSON AND MICHAEL S. SWEENEY, On The Move: Transportation and the American Story. Washington, DC: National Geographic, 2003, pp. 319, illustrations, $35.00 cloth. CLIFTON HOOD, 722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York. Baltimore & London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993, 2004, pp. 336, illustrations, notes, index, $18.95 paper. GENE SANSONE, New York Subways: An Illustrated History of New York City's Transit Cars. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004, pp. xiii, 508, illustrations, glossary, tables, diagrams, appendices, $49.95 hardcover
Journal of Urban History 2008 34: 532-540. [PDF]  

Barbara Eckstein

Review Essay: Specters of the City: STEVEN CONN AND MAX PAGE, editors, Building the Nation: Americans Write About Their Architecture, Their Cities, and Their Landscape. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003, pp. xi, 412, index, illustrations, $59.95 cloth, $24.95 paper. SAMUEL DELANEY, Times Square Red, Times Square Blue. New York: New York University Press, 1999, pp. xviii, 203, $19 paper. CHRISTOPHE DEN TANDT, The Urban Sublime in American Literary Naturalism. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998, pp. xiv, 288, notes, bibliography, index, $49.95 cloth, $18.95 paper. JAMES DONALD, Imagining the Modern City. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999, pp. xiii, 216, illustrations, notes, index, $24.95 paper. MADHU DUBEY, Signs and Cities: Black Literary Postmodernism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003, pp. ix, 284, notes, index, $19.80 paper. JAMES R. GILES, The Naturalistic Inner-City Novel in America: Encounters with the Fat Man. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1995, pp. ix, 204, bibliography, index, $34.95 cloth. RICHARD LEHAN, The City in Literature: An Intellectual and Cultural History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998, pp. xvi, 330, illustrations, tables, bibliography, index, $45 cloth, $17.95 paper. DAVID L. ULIN, editor, Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology. New York: The Library of America, 2002, pp. xix, 880, illustrations, $40.00 cloth
Journal of Urban History 2008 34: 541-551. [PDF] [References]  

Bradshaw Hovey

Review Essay: In Search of Urban Livability: CARL ABBOTT, Greater Portland: Urban Life and Landscape in the Pacific Northwest. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001, pp. xi, 242, illustrations, maps, notes, index, $19.95 paper, $34.95 cloth. JAMES LYONS, Selling Seattle: Representing Contemporary Urban America. London: Wallflower Press, 2004, pp. vii, 226, illustrations, notes, index, bibliography, $24.50 hardback. T. M. SELL, Wings of Power: Boeing and the Politics of Growth in the Northwest. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001, pp. xxx, 162, notes, bibliography, index, cloth
Journal of Urban History 2008 34: 552-561. [PDF] [References]  

Michael Desmond

Review Essay: Buildings in the Making of Cities: Three Chicago Case Studies RICHARD LONGSTRETH, ed., The Charnley House: Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and the Making of Chicago's Gold Coast. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004, pp. xxi, 249, illustrations, notes, index, $55.00 hardback. JOSEPH M. SIRY, The Chicago Auditorium Building: Adler and Sullivan's Architecture and the City. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002, pp. xv, 550, illustrations, notes, selected bibliography, index, $55.00 cloth. KATHERINE SOLOMONSON, The Chicago Tribune Tower Competition: Skyscraper Design and Cultural Change in the 1920s. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001, pp. xiii, 370, illustrations, bibliography, index, $80.00 cloth [University of Chicago Press, 2003, $27.00 paper]
Journal of Urban History 2008 34: 562-568. [PDF] [References]  

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