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
In Memorium
In Memorium Joel A. Tarr
Teaching Urban History
Sin Cities: From History to Sociology to Urban History, an Interdisciplinary Journey Anton Rosenthal
Articles
Women as Pleasure Seekers: Courtesans, Actresses, and Female Visitors in the Amusement Halls of Early Republican Shanghai Nga Li Lam
Gender in the Streets of the Premodern City Danielle van den Heuvel
The Longue Durée of School Governance in Boston Alan DiGaetano
Feeding the City, Feeding the Fortress: Cracow’s Food Supply in World War I Bartosz Ogórek
Fernando Távora Oporto’s Urban Renewal: A Changing Moment in Urban Rehabilitation Policy Debate Gonçalo Canto Moniz, Luís Miguel Correia, and Adelino Gonçalves
Une ville des jardins: The Consiglio d’Ornato and the Urban Transformation of Nice (1832–1860) David Geoffrey Moak
Mexico City as an Urban Laboratory: Oscar Lewis, the “Culture of Poverty” and the Transnational History of the Slum Emilio de Antuñano
Review Essays
Image, Politics, and Place: Tourism and the American City Aaron Cowan
Goodbye Bedford Falls: The Global Search for Affordable Housing Kristin M. Szylvian
Historians for Housing: Excavating the Past to Advocate for the Future Adam TanakaDevelopment and Its Disruptions on Manhattan’s Far West Side, 1971–2014 Kevin Loughran
“Proud and Soaring Things”: Skyscrapers and the City Thomas Leslie
Childcare in the Semiwelfare State Deborah A. Skok
Race, Place, and American Music Rachel Donaldson
Mother of Exiles? Immigration, Assimilation, and the Continued Negotiation of American Identity Peter G. Vellon