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 CONTENT
Special Section: Making Places, Shaping Cities: Narrating Spatial History in Three American Cities
In MemoriumSamuel P. Hays, 1921–2017
Special Section Introduction
Introduction: Making Places, Shaping Cities—Narrating Spatial History in Three American Cities Matthew Klingle
Special Section Articles
Reforging the Steel City: Symbolism and Space in Postindustrial PittsburghTracy Neumann
A Gateway without a Port: Making and Contesting San Francisco’s Early WaterfrontLaura E. Ferguson
From Fort George to the Fields: The Public Space and Military Geography of Revolutionary New York CityJohn Gilbert McCurdy
Articles
Police Misconduct, Community Opposition, and Urban Governance in New York City, 1945–1965Themis Chronopoulos
New Careers for the Poor: Human Services and the Post-Industrial CityClaire Dunning
“The Struggle for Land and Liberty”: Segregation, Violence, and African American Resistance in Baltimore, 1898-1918Dennis P. Halpin
“A Pleasant and Tidy Arrangement”: Housing Development and Economies of Segregation in Mtwara, Tanganyika, 1949-1954Chau Johnsen Kelly
Manufacturing Landmarks in New York City ParksAlexander Reichl
The Right to Housing: Squatter Settlements in Interwar Belgrade—The Defense and Demolition of Jatagan-mala Zlata VuksanovićMacura and Vladimir Macura
Review Essays
The Long History of Segregation and Desegregation in the Urban SouthCristina V. Groeger
Paris: Zenith to NadirDavid P. Jordan
Making a Virtue of Necessity? Citizenship and Formal Structures of Urban Power from the Great Society to the “Metropolitan Revolution”Mason B. Williams
Teaching the City
Urban Literature: A User’s GuideCarlo Rotella