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: Dancing in the Streets: The Arts in Postwar U.S. Cities
Guest Editors: Julia L. Foulkes and Aaron Shkuda
Dancing in the Streets: The Arts in Postwar U.S. Cities—Introduction Julia L. Foulkes
Building a Midwest Cultural Capital: Professional Theater and Urban Development in Minneapolis Susannah Engstrom
Between the “Culture of Poverty” and the Cultural Revolution: Katherine Dunham’s Performing Arts Training Center in East St. Louis, 1965–1973 Joanna Dee Das
The Artist as Developer and Advocate: Real Estate and Public Policy in SoHo, New York Aaron Shkuda
The “Loft Cause” or “Bohemia Gone Bourgeois?”: Artist Housing and Private Development in Greenwich Village Jeffrey Trask
Seeing the City: The Filming of West Side Story Julia L. Foulkes
Landscape in Motion: Nostalgia and Urban Redevelopment in Ed Ruscha’s Then & Now: Hollywood Boulevard, 1973-2004 Matt Reynolds
Special Section: City Stories: Place-making Narratives in the Rise and Fall of Urban America
Guest Editor: Robin F. Bachin
City Stories: Place-Making Narratives in the Rise and Fall of Urban America Robin F. Bachin
Fear, Commercialism, Reform, and Antebellum Tourism to New York City Richard H. Gassan
“The Best Things in Life Are Here” in “The Mistake on the Lake”: Narratives of Decline and Renewal in Cleveland J. Mark Souther
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Commercialism and Identity Politics in New York’s Chinatown Chuo Li
Review Essays
Chicago, Variously, Detroit Possibly? Larry Bennett
Truly In-between People: Situating Latinos in Twentieth-Century Urban History Deborah E. Kanter
Gambling, Legitimacy, and the Limits of Community Matthew Vaz
Constructing Open Space in the Modern City Charles Halvorson
Is There a Sunbelt After All? And Should We Care? Rachel M. Guberman
Capitals and Capitalist Urbanization in Imperial, Modern, and Contemporary China Samuel Y. Liang