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
Articles
When “Comoners Were Made Slaves by the Magistrates”: The 1627 Election and Political Culture in Norwich Fiona Williamson
Battling Crack: A Study of the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition’s Tactics Noël K. Wolfe
Historic Urbanization Process in Spain (1746–2013): From the Fall of the American Empire to the Real Estate Bubble José María Cardesín Díaz and Jesús Mirás Araujo
Reshaping the Urban Space in Portuguese Fortified Cities: New Green Spaces Resulting from the Rehabilitation of Urban Fortifications—From the Nineteenth Century until the End of the Estado Novo Dictatorial Regime (1974) Joaquim Manuel Rodrigues dos Santos
Taming the War on Poverty: Memphis as a Case Study Gail Schmunk Murray
City Glow: Streetlights, Emotions, and Nocturnal Life, 1880s–1910s Nicolas Kenny
“Choosing to Stay”: Hurricane Katrina Narratives and the History of Claiming Place-Knowledge in New Orleans Anja Nadine Klopfer
“Crucial to the Survival of Black People”: Local People, Black Power, and Community Organizations in Buffalo, New York, 1966–1968 Rowena Ianthe Alfonso
Review Essays
Interesting Times for Chinese Cities: Insights into China’s Urban Transformations Gregory Bracken
American Residential Segregation: Five Books, Five Viewpoints David P. Varady
Gentrification Matters Suleiman Osman
Workers, Workhouses, and the Sick Poor: Health and Institutional Health Care in the Long Nineteenth Century Douglas Brown