Search Results - "Journal of Urban History"

Oil Spaces: The Global Petroleumscape in the Rotterdam/The Hague Area by Hein, Carola

“…Corporate and public actors have built the physical and financial flows of petroleum into the very landscape. This article identifies different layers of those…”
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How and Why U.S. Single-Family Housing Became an Investor Asset Class by Christophers, Brett

“…Having historically been avoided by institutional financial investors, U.S. single-family housing—that is, free-standing residential property—received large…”
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New Perspectives on New Deal Housing Policy: Explicating and Mapping HOLC Loans to African Americans by Michney, Todd M., Winling, LaDale

“…Scholarship on the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) has typically focused on this New Deal housing agency’s invention of redlining, with dire effects from…”
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Resilience and Path Dependence: A Comparative Study of the Port Cities of London, Hamburg, and Philadelphia by Hein, Carola, Schubert, Dirk

“…Port spaces, functions, and interests have shaped the growth and development of many cities around the world. At times, different stakeholders—private and…”
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A Walk in Thomas Annan’s Glasgow: Documentary Photography, Class and Urban Space by Rizov, Vladimir

“…This text explores the photographic documentary work on the city of Glasgow by Thomas Annan in the mid- to late nineteenth century. I focus on Annan’s most…”
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The Exception that Became the Rule: A History of First-Generation Rent Control in Italy (1915-1978) by Iannello, Aurora

“…This paper retraces the history of Italy’s first-generation rent control—a strict system of nominal rent freezes—from its adoption in 1915 to its final…”
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Public Works, Spatial Strategies, and Mobility in Late Medieval Ghent by Coomans, Janna, Hermenault, Léa

“…This article argues that medieval urban authorities developed nodal spatial strategies to mitigate various risks—from accidents, floods, and military…”
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Patrolling and Controlling the Streets: The Origin of School Safety Patrols in New York City by Smilie, Kipton D.

“…The rise of automobile use in New York City in the 1920s placed pedestrians, particularly children and adolescents, in a new danger. Fatalities and injuries…”
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Imagining Residential Segregation before the Ghetto: Representations of Black Urban Space and Mobility in the “Darktown” Comics, 1877-1900 by Anderson, Colin L.

“…Examining Currier and Ives’s immensely popular and racist lithographic print series, the “Darktown” comics, from 1877 to 1900, this article argues that the…”
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How “Neighborhood” Arose, Changed, and Grew: A Bilingual Canadian Story by Harris, Richard

“…“Neighborhood” is routinely used when referring to the history of residential areas in North American cities. In fact, it is unclear whether this has always…”
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Stigmatizing Street Vendors and Market Traders: The Case of Amsterdam from a Historical Perspective by van Eck, Emil, Rath, Jan

“…This article contributes to the debate on the stigmatization of street vendors and market traders by illuminating the moralizing and disciplinary state…”
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Infrastructure and Inequality in Washington, D.C.: Environmental Change and Federal Management of the District’s Forgotten River by Shapiro, Justin

“…The District of Columbia has long served as a test case for federal planning priorities. Congress has jurisdiction over the District, and has historically…”
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“I Get So Mad Cause We Ain’t Got No Freedom”: Black Women, Rage, and the Harlem Uprising of 1943 by Kelly, Bridget Laramie

“…In the early evening of August 1, 1943, a New York City police officer arrested Marjorie Polite at the Braddock Hotel. Polite’s arrest created an expansive…”
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Whose Streets? Our Streets! . . . or Maybe Not? Legitimizing Racialized Gendered Policing in Modern Cities by Williams, Rhonda Y.

“…“Whose streets? Our streets!” This special forum centered on The Streets Belong to Us: Sex, Race, and Police Power from Segregation to Gentrification conjures…”
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Other Worlds Just Like This One: Enchantment at Meow Wolf’s “The House of Eternal Return” by Harvey, Alhelí

“…Santa Fe, New Mexico is one of the most iconic cities in the United States, devoted to its distinctive architectural image. Meow Wolf (MW), a Santa Fe–based…”
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The Role of the North-China Herald in the Anti-Tax Activities of British Businessmen in Shanghai, 1850-1854 by Cheng, Hong, Zhu, Boyan

“…Leveraging historical records from the North-China Herald alongside British Parliamentary archives and correspondence from key stakeholders, this article…”
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Neoliberal Progressivism: Charter Schools as Claims to Urban Space, Asian American Self-Determination, and Multiracial Solidarity by Liu, Roseann

“…Much of the scholarship on charter schools has examined the reform through the lens of neoliberalism, rightly critiquing it for its negative effects on…”
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Where Were Bodies Buried? The Complex Transformation of Beijing’s Mortuary Space from the Perspective of the Conflict between Tradition and Modernity, 1912-1949 by Wang, Changsong, Zhang, Shuai, Jiang, Shutong

“…The urban mortuary space is an essential part of the traditional social space of Beijing, revealing the complex modernization process during the period of the…”
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Fractures within Fair Housing: The Battle for the Memory and Legacy of the Long Fair Housing Movement by Nelson, Nichole

“…This article examines how white supremacy diluted the nationwide struggle to eliminate racial residential segregation known as the Fair Housing Movement. As…”
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“You Know It When You See It”: Drug Nuisance Property and the Carceral Management of Racialized Disinvestment in Philadelphia by Smith, Jackson

“…In 1991, Philadelphia prosecutors formed the Public Nuisance Task Force (PNTF) to close bars they accused of harboring narcotics activity. Between the early…”
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