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 Introduction
Introduction. After the Urban Crisis: New York and the Rise of InequalityThemis Chronopoulos and Jonathan Soffer
Special Section Articles
“I Am Not Co-op!”: The Struggle over Middle-Class Housing in 1970s New YorkBenjamin Holtzman
The Guardian Angels: Law and Order and Citizen Policing in New York CityReiko Hillyer
“A Shelter Can Tip the Scales Sometimes”: Disinvestment, Gentrification, and the Neighborhood Politics of Homelessness in 1980s New York CityAriel Eisenberg
The Rebuilding of the South Bronx after the Fiscal CrisisThemis Chronopoulos
Review Essays
Beyond Resistance: New Works on Urban Popular Politics in Latin America’s Informal CitiesAndra B. Chastain
Agency in Policing the Poor: Protecting Social Status and Fortifying PunishmentPrentiss Dantzler
Urban Landscapes in the Middle EastHasan-Uddin Khan
Articles
From Old Colonial Estates to New Modern Suburbs: The Emergence of the First Middle-Class Neighborhoods in Bogotá, Colombia (1925–1945)Diana Gómez-Navas and Adrián Serna-Dimas
The Gates of Charity: Images of City and Community in the Early Modern Dutch OrphanageHanneke van Asperen
Patterns of Population and Urban Growth in Southwest Europe: 1920–2010Cathy Chatel, Mateu Morillas-Torné, Albert Esteve, and Jordi Martí-Henneberg