Special Section Introduction

Urban Seasonality: New Paths in Urban Environmental History
Kara Murphy Schlichting and Avi Sharma

Special Section Articles

The Sinister Side of Summer: Revisiting the Dog Days of Nineteenth-Century New York
Chris Pearson

Seasonal Cycles of Social In- and Exclusion: Leisure Culture in Amsterdam and The Hague, 1815-1890
Jan Hein Furnée

Flood and Drought: The Challenges of Seasonality in the Operation of Rome’s Sewers, 1870-1900
Salvatore Valenti

Tree Times: Urban Plants as Timekeepers and Seasonal Indicators
Sonja Dümpelmann

From Endurance to Escape: The Tokyo Summer as Lived Experience in the Twentieth Century
Tatsuya Mitsuda

Potholes of Philadelphia: Seasonality, Infrastructure, and Environments Above and Below Ground
Simone M. Müller

Why Study the Seasons? Reflections on the Question of Urban Temporalities
Dorothee Brantz

Articles

The Development of Modern Urban Planning: The Case of Strasbourg, 1871-1918
Philipp Heckmann-Umhau

Urban Morphology and Functional Hierarchy of the Jewish Quarter of Zaragoza (Spain) at the End of the Fifteenth Century
Miguel Ángel Motis-Dolader, Ana Ruiz-Varona, and Lourdes Pérez-López

The Ever-Expanding University of California: Property Claims and the Battle over People’s Park
Maansi Shah

“Somebody Else’s Fight”: Local Dynamics in the Baltimore Highway Revolt
Douwe Schipper

From Mangons to Rewards: Butchery Animals as Revealing the Diversity of Trades in Belgian Cities in the Early Modern Period
William Riguelle

Pioneers of Gentrification: Women Entrepreneurs Prospecting in a Post-Soviet Industrial City
Irina Redkina

Review Essays

Reading Shanghai: A City of Complexity and Ambiguity
Li Hou

Beyond Southern California
Jaime Sánchez, Jr.