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
“Order as well as Decency”: The Development of Order Maintenance Policing in Black Atlanta Danielle Wiggins
Imitation, Reference, and Exploration—Development Path to Urban Renewal in China (1985–2017) Zhou Yao and Chang Jiang
The Strange Career of Urban Homesteading: Low-Income Homeownership and the Transformation of American Housing Policy in the Late Twentieth Century Marisa Chappell
“Letting in the Light”: Jacob Riis’s Crusade for Breathing Spaces on the Lower East Side Adrienne deNoyelles
Karl Linn and the Foundations of Community Design: From Progressive Models to the War on Poverty Anna Goodman
“We’re Walking Proud and Talking Loud Because We’re the New Black Joes!”: Community Leadership and Tenants Rights in Asheville’s 1968 Rent Strike Sarah Judson
Fire in the Bronx: Austerity, Quality of Life, and Nightlife Regulation in New York City Post-1975 Jess Bird
The Visual Pedagogy of Reform: Picturing White Slavery in America Amy Lippert
The Casbah of Algiers’s Transformation Between 1833 and 1859: Expropriation, Concession, and Plot Remodeling Asma Hadjilah and Nabila Chérif
Review Essays
Reviving the Queer Urban Community Study La Shonda Mims
Commerce and Class: New Approaches to Charleston History Robert P. Stockton
Changing Perspectives: Suburbia from the Outside Jay Gitlin
Promises Kept, Promises Broken: New York City and the Jews John M. Dixon
Following the Flows: New Perspectives on Transnational Urbanism Harold L. Platt
From the Ground Up: Cities, States, Nation Robert A. Beauregard
Between Macro and Micro: Historical Perspective on the Urban in Japan Heide Imai