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
Special Section: Urban America and the Carceral State
Rethinking Urban America through the Lens of the Carceral StateHeather Ann Thompson and Donna Murch
Welfare Crises, Penal Solutions, and the Origins of the “Welfare Queen”Julilly Kohler-Hausmann
Between a Rock and Hard Place: Delaware Prison Reform and the Urban Landscape, 1961–1977Yohuru Williams
Pushers, Victims, and the Lost Innocence of White Suburbia: California’s War on Narcotics during the 1950sMatthew D. Lassiter
Creating Crime: The Rise and Impact of National Juvenile Delinquency Programs in Black Urban NeighborhoodsElizabeth Hinton
The Law and Order Origins of Urban Gay PoliticsTimothy Stewart-Winter
Cell Taught, Self Taught: The Chicano Movement Behind Bars – Urban Chicanos, Rural Prisons, and the Prisoners’ Rights MovementRobert T. Chase
ArticlesSuburban Land Development in Antebellum BostonRonald Dale Karr
“Everywhere Is Taksim”: The Politics of Public Space from Nation-Building to Neoliberal Islamism and BeyondBülent Batuman
The Modern Vernacular Reassessed: The Socioarchitectural Origin of the Taipei Walkup ApartmentsJin-Ann Lin and Liang-Chuan Chen
Review Essays
“Closer to Heaven”: Race and Diversity in Suburban AmericaDylan Gottlieb
Ideas, Actors, Conflicts, and Contexts Matter: Postwar Planning in American Urban HistoryLaura Grantmyre
Back to the Future: New Histories of New York in a New Age of InequalityNick Juravich