Journal of Urban History (JUH), peer-reviewed and published bi-monthly, provides scholars and professionals with the latest research, analyses, and discussion on the history of cities and urban societies throughout the world. JUH presents original research by distinguished authors from the variety of fields concerned with urban history. Each insightful issue offers the latest scholarship on such topics as public housing, migration, urban growth, and more.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial
Introduction: Reinventing the American Postindustrial CityPamela Karimi
Articles
Postindustrialization and the City of Consumption: Attempted Revitalization in Asbury Park, New JerseyFrancesca Russello Ammon
Immigrant Island Cities in Industrial DetroitSaima Akhtar
Theaster Gates’s Dorchester Projects in ChicagoKathleen Reinhardt
New Bedford Resurgent: A New England Town–Gown StoryAnna M. Dempsey
Getting Out of a Spot: Deployed Technologies and Revamped Codes for a Thriving Twenty-First-Century CityMarc Norman
The Creative Class, Urban Boosters, and Race: Shaping Urban Revitalization in Kansas City, MissouriMarie-Alice L’Heureux
Urban Triage, City Systems, and the Remnants of Community: Some “Sticky” Complications in the Greening of DetroitL. Owen Kirkpatrick
Limitations of the Temporary: Landscape and AbandonmentJill Desimini
Debris of What-Would-Have-Been: A Photo-Essay Concerning Deindustrialization in Hyper-capitalist and Post-socialist CitiesTalinn Grigor and Romina Katchi.db
Decline and Renaissance: Photographing Detroit in the 1940s and 1980sWes Aelbrecht
Urban Decay Photography and Film: Fetishism and the Apocalyptic ImaginationSarah Arnold
The City from AfarThomas Stubblefield