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: The Lure of the City. Comparative Perspectives on Singles in Towns in the Low Countries, 1600–1940
Guest Editors: Ariadne Schmidt, Isabelle Devos, and Julie De Groot
Introduction. Unmarried and Unknown: Urban Men and Women in the Low Countries Since the Early Modern Period Isabelle Devos, Ariadne Schmidt, and Julie De Groot
Women Alone in Early Modern Dutch Towns: Opportunities and Strategies to Survive Ariadne Schmidt and Manon van der Heijden
Rural Single Female Migrants in Early-Nineteenth-Century Bruges: An Exception to the Rules? Sofie De Langhe
Alone and Far from Home: Gender and Migration Trajectories of Single Foreign Newcomers to Antwerp, 1850–1880 Hilde Greefs and Anne Winter
Discourses versus Life Courses: Servants’ Extramarital Sexual Activities in Flanders during the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries Christa Matthys
Life and Death of Singles in Dutch Cities, 1850–1940 Jan Kok and Kees Mandemakers
Articles
Service Access in Premodern Cities: An Exploratory Comparison of Spatial Equity Benjamin W. Stanley, Timothy J. Dennehy, Michael E. Smith, Barbara L. Stark, Abigail M. York, George L. Cowgill, Juliana Novic, and Jerald Ek
Place and Politics at the Frankfurt Paulskirche after 1945 Shelley E. Rose
The Streetcar in the Urban Imaginary of Latin America Anton Rosenthal
Between Order and Modernity: Resurgence Planning in Revolutionary Egypt Gehan Selim
The Zebra Murders: Race, Civil Liberties, and Radical Politics in San Francisco Christine Lamberson
Review Essays
Revisiting the Urban Steelbelt’s Liberalism: A Retrospective on Roger Biles’s Recent Scholarship Elizabeth Tandy Shermer
Shifting Currents: Intellectual and Political Histories of the Urban Water Supply Steven T. Moga
Conflict and Religion in Late Medieval Urban Society James Davis