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 IntroductionIntroduction: Cities on Paper: On the Materiality of Paper in Urban Planning Min Kyung Lee and Sean Weiss
Special Section Articles
The Bureaucracy of Plans: Urban Governance and Maps in Nineteenth-Century Paris Min Kyung Lee
The Agency of the Paper Plan: The Building Plans of Late Nineteenth-Century and Early Twentieth-Century Berlin Tilo Amhoff
The “Dravert Affair”: Paperwork and the Administration of Negligent Street Maintenance in Modern Paris Sean Weiss
Trees, Wood, and Paper: Materialities of Urban Arboriculture in Modern Berlin Sonja Dümpelmann
“Balance-Sheet” City: Martin Wagner and the Visualization of Statistical Data Anna Vallye
Articles
“The Police Cannot Be Present at Every Transaction”: Regulating Marketplace Meetings between Taxi Drivers and Passengers in Asheville, North Carolina, 1914–1922 Seth Epstein
Building a Local Preservation Ethic in the Era of Urban Renewal: How Did Neighborhood Associations Shape Historic Preservation Practice in Lexington, Kentucky? Lauren A. R. Poole and Douglas R. Appler
Review Essays
Not Geared Toward the Masses: Ideological Pluralism, Black Capitalism, and the Long Civil Rights Movement in Chicago Andrew S. Baer
The Car as Landscape Determinant, Financial Burden, and Gendered Artifact Joseph A. Rodriguez
Analyzing Urban Uprisings in the Global West: Recent Interpretive Challenges Ian Rocksborough-Smith
Desperately Seeking a Center, in the Postwar American Suburb Sandy Isenstadt
What’s in a Race? The Changing Words and Ideas behind America’s Immigrant Classification Systems Jessica H. Lee
Wasteland or Fertile Ground? Detroit’s Historiographical Moment Brandon M. Ward
Silicon Valley from the Ground Up: Distinguishing Myth from Reality in the Tech Capital of the World Ryan Reft
Constructing the Asian American and Latina/o Neighborhood Vivian Truong
Après le Deluge: The Second Katrina Disaster Robert L. Dupont