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: Japanese Cities in Global Context
Editorial
Japanese Cities in Global Context Carola Hein
Articles
Nagasaki’s Districts: Western Contact with Japan through the History of a City’s Space David Palmer
Paving Power: Western Urban Planning and Imperial Space from the Streets of Meiji Tokyo to Colonial Seoul Tristan R. Grunow
Urban Survey and Planning in Twentieth-Century Japan: Wajiro Kon’s “Modernology” and Its Descendants Izumi Kuroishi
Toward an “Unburnable City”: Reimagining the Urban Landscape in 1930s Japanese Media Kari Shepherdson-Scott
Metabolist Utopias and Their Global Influence: Three Paradigms of Urbanism Zhongjie Lin
Rediscovering Japanese Urban Space in a World Context Ken Tadashi Oshima
Review Essays
Freedom North Studies, the Long Civil Rights Movement, and Twentieth-Century Liberalism in American Cities Brian Purnell
“I Love You Peter’s Proud Creation”: Cultural Topographies of St. Petersburg Anthony Anemone
From Silks to Spices: Changing Processes of Retailing and Consumption in Eighteenth-Century English Towns Serena Dyer