Urban History Association The Urban History Newsletter...selection of Benjamin Looker’s A Nation of Neighborhoods: Imagining Cities, Communities, and Democracy in Postwar America

Fall 2016 (Volume 48, Number 2)

The Urban History Newsletter

Urban History Association

Inside this issue:

UHA Award Winners 6 - 11

Executive Director

Report

12

UHA Biennial Meeting

RFPs

13

In Memoriam 14 - 15

UHA at AHA and OAH 16 - 17

Announcements 18 - 22

Bibliographies 23 - 33

New Membership Fees 34

THE URBAN HISTORY NEWSLETTER

Editor,Editor,Editor,

UHA Newsletter, UHA Newsletter, UHA Newsletter,

Patrick R. PotyondyPatrick R. PotyondyPatrick R. Potyondy

Chicago Conference is UHA’s Largest

The largest-ever conference of the

Urban History Association took

place at the Corboy Law Center on

the Water Tower Campus of Loyola

University Chicago, from Thursday,

October 13, to Sunday, October 16,

2016. UHA President Timothy Gil-

foyle, professor and past chair of

history at Loyola, hosted the four-

day event. This Eighth Biennial

Conference of the UHA—“The

Working Urban”—included more

than 150 panels,

plenaries, and

roundtables, at-

tracting 722 urban

historians, writers,

scholars, and jour-

nalists from across

the United States

and around the

world.

In addition to the

daytime program-

ming, conference

participants en-

joyed the opportunity to socialize

and network during receptions over

the course of three evenings. Thurs-

day’s opening night reception took

place among the second-floor galler-

ies of the Chicago History Museum,

located in the city’s Gold Coast

neighborhood at the southern end of

Lincoln Park. The site of Friday’s

reception was the stage of the

Frank Gehry-designed Pritzker Mu-

sic Pavilion in Millennium Park, a

vantage point just east of the Loop

offering fantastic views of the Chica-

go skyline. On Saturday, conference

attendees gathered for a final even-

ing reception in the lobby of the new-

ly-constructed Schreiber Center on

Loyola’s Water Tower Campus.

Later Saturday evening, 170 guests

attended the sold-out Gala Banquet

in Kasbeer Hall on the fifteenth floor

of the Corboy Center. The banquet

was notable for the record-number

(11) of UHA past presidents in at-

tendance, as well as a record-

number of graduate students (44).

These two numbers indicate the or-

ganization’s rich history and healthy

prospects for the coming years. The

banquet also included an awards

ceremony in which the UHA recog-

nized fourteen individuals for excel-

lence in urban history scholarship

during the previous two years.

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UHA President-Elect Richard Harris (top left) and UHA President Timothy Gilfoyle (top right) are joined by 10 former UHA presidents

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ments were spearhead by Gil-

foyle, former UHA membership

secretary and Vice President for

Research and Academic Pro-

grams at the Newberry Library,

Brad Hunt, and Loyola Universi-

ty Chicago Ph.D. candidate Chel-

sea Denault. In addition, the 30-

member Local Arrangements

Committee offered expert guid-

ance and support.

N.D.B. Connolly, the Herbert

Baxter Adams Associate Profes-

sor of His-

tory at

Johns Hop-

kins Uni-

versity, and

Donna

Murch, As-

sociate Pro-

fessor of

History at

Rutgers

University,

co-chaired

the 11-

member

Program

Committee.

With the

committee’s assistance, Connolly

and Murch conceptualized the

conference theme (“The Working

Urban”), solicited proposals from

around the world, and scheduled

panels, roundtables, and plena-

ries covering two and a half days

of programming.

During a two-year period, eight

all-volunteer award committees

solicited nominations, reviewed

submissions, and voted on best

scholarship winners for the Ken-

neth Jackson Award for best

book (North American), the

Award for Best Book in Non-

North American urban history,

the Arnold Hirsch Award for

The evening ended with Timo-

thy Gilfoyle’s presidential ad-

dress on the topic of his most

recent research: “Singer's In-

vention, Inventing Singer: The

Sewing Machine and the City.”

Dissertation workshops, histori-

cal tours, and a book exhibit

also provided opportunities to

advance urban history during

the conference. Fourteen disser-

tation workshops paired estab-

lished scholars in one-on-one

conversations with

graduate students

working on their

dissertations. Guid-

ed tours led by ex-

perts on Chicago

history explored a

variety of locations,

including: Chica-

go’s South Side; the

future site of the

National Public

Housing Museum;

Hull-House, UIC,

and the Near West

Side; the churches

of Pilsen; and Mexi-

can Chicago. Final-

ly, the conference book exhibit,

which ran all-day on Friday and

Saturday in Kasbeer Hall, in-

cluded displays from thirteen

university presses and one

trade press.

In sum, the Eighth Biennial

Conference of the UHA demon-

strated a field of study and a

professional organization that

are healthy, vibrant, and grow-

ing.

Such growth and success relies

on the selfless work of dedicated

volunteers and the generous

support of institutions and

foundations. Local arrange-

best article, the Michael Katz

Award for best dissertation, and

the Raymond Mohl Award for

best conference paper by a grad-

uate student.

UHA Executive Director Timo-

thy Neary, Associate Professor

of History at Salve Regina Uni-

versity, and UHA Membership

Secretary Cindy Lobel, Associ-

ate Professor of History at Leh-

man College/City University of

New York, developed and over-

saw the conference registration

process and provided logistical

support in a multitude of other

areas. They were ably assisted

by Robin Parsons of Parsons

Marketing Concepts, who de-

signed the new UHA website

(http://www.urbanhistory.org/)

and trained Neary and Lobel on

the use of the organization’s

new Wild Apricot software.

Chelsea Denault led a team of

more than twenty undergradu-

ate and graduate student volun-

teers, who staffed the onsite

registration table, placed sign-

age throughout the Corboy Cen-

ter, provided AV support for

panel sessions, and responded

to the inevitable series of mini-

crises which arise when running

such a conference.

The friendly and professional

assistance of Loyola University

Chicago’s Conference Services,

Aramark Catering, Information

Technologies, and Campus Se-

curity made the Water Tower

Campus a wonderful place to

hold a conference.

Matthew Roth expertly de-

signed and edited the 66-page

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“The Eighth Biennial

Conference of the UHA

demonstrated a field

of study and a

professional

organization that are

healthy, vibrant, and

growing.”

http://www.urbanhistory.org/


Conference Photos

Book Exhibit

Gala Banquet David Goldfield, editor of the Journal of Urban History

UHA President-Elect Richard Harris (left) with UHA President Timothy Gilfoyle (right)

Lila Corwin Berman (right) discusses Parish Boundaries by John McGreevy (seated, left)

conference program, and Greg Bear designed its

cover art.

Finally, the generosity of a number of confer-

ence sponsors allowed the UHA to host two

unique offsite evening receptions and reimburse

100 percent the to-and-from Chicago travel ex-

penses of 66 graduate students on the confer-

ence program. The UHA would like to offer its

sincere thanks and heartfelt gratitude to Loyola

University’s College of Arts and Sciences, Grad-

uate School, Department of History, and Center

for Urban Research and Learning, as well as

the College of Arts and Letters at the Universi-

ty of Notre Dame, the Chicago History Muse-

um, the Minow Family Foundation, the Univer-

sity of Chicago Press, and the Society for Amer-

ican City and Regional Planning History.


Conference Photos

Millen

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ark Re

cep

tion

UHA President Timothy Gilfoyle (left) recognizes Nathan Connolly and Donna Murch for their hard work as Program Committee Co-Chairs

Poster Session UHA Board Meeting


Conference Photos

Saturday Night Reception Saturday Night Reception

Saturday Night Reception UHA Volunteers

Past UHA President Thomas Sugrue (right) comments on the work of Camilo Vergara (seated, left)


Co-Winner of the UHA Kenneth Jackson Award for

Best Book (North American) Published in 2015

The Kenneth Jackson Prize award committee is pleased to announce its

selection of Nancy H. Kwak’s A World of Homeowners: American Power

and the Politics of Housing Aid (University of Chicago Press) as co-

winner of the 2016 Kenneth Jackson Prize for the Best Book in North

American Urban History published in 2015.

Nancy Kwak’s book A World of Homeowners addresses one of the most

compelling issues of the 21st century, that of housing policy. She underscores

how the American ideal and realization of home ownership, unique in the

modern world, affected a wide range of groups both inside and outside the

nation. She uses meticulous and

sweeping research to show how

the tentacles of housing policy

affected the poor, the

disenfranchised, and the

underprivileged. She convincingly

reveals the circuit of exchange

relating to the ideas, models, and

policies of homeownership

between the United States and the

world, both as an instrument in

the struggle against Soviet

communism and as a trajectory for

post-colonial developing nations.

Her complex story aims to

understand the heart of the

American dream of achieving

decent shelter, while documenting

how American-influenced housing

policies promulgated by United

States international aid agencies

metastasized with differing results

and varying degrees of success in

countries across the world with

very different cultures.


Co-Winner of the UHA Kenneth Jackson Award for

Best Book (North American) Published in 2015

The Kenneth Jackson Prize award committee is pleased to announce its

selection of Benjamin Looker’s A Nation of Neighborhoods: Imagining

Cities, Communities, and Democracy in Postwar America (University

of Chicago Press) as co-winner of the 2016 Kenneth Jackson Prize for the

Best Book in North American Urban History published in 2015.

“Neighborhood” as a notion of how people comfortably dwell in cities emerged

as an enduring theme spanning much of the twentieth century. Benjamin

Looker offers a sweeping view of how this most basic envisioned component of

American cities was promulgated, dissected, and reconfigured in the service of

various socioeconomic agendas beginning in the years of prosperous optimism

at the end of World War II until the

political upheavals of the Reagan era

in the 1980s. Remarkable in its scope

and ambition, Looker’s work

explicates the contested idea of

neighborhood as reflected in popular

culture, city planning, politics,

literature, television, and sociology.

He leads the reader through the

notion of neighborhood as it was lived,

imagined, and wielded rhetorically

over the forty-year period of the book.

He demonstrates how the pursuit of

the neighborhood ideal transformed

communities and in turn was

transformed by larger sociopolitical

forces. As the notion of neighborhood

has once again become a focal point in

urban upheavals during the current

period, his book is most timely in

providing the foundation for a greater

understanding of how we live now and

how we might proceed to address some

recalcitrant issues of urban life.


Co-Winners of the Arnold Hirsch Award for the Best

Scholarly Article on Urban History Published in 2015

Nicolas Kenny, “City Glow: Streetlights, Emotions, and Nocturnal Life, 1880s-1910s,”

Journal of Urban History (April 2015).

In his article “City Glows: Streetlights, Emotions, and Nocturnal Life, 1880s-1910s” Nicolas Kenny brings

together two seemingly unconnected fields of research—urban history and the history of emotions—to produce a

truly innovative and captivating account of the emotional effects of modern lighting on city dwellers’ lives.

Comparing the introduction of modern street lights in the cities of Montreal and Brussels, Kenny examines

petitions written by city residents to their respective city government about the lack of street lighting to analyze

the meanings attached to light by the authors of these petitions. While bringing modern lighting systems to city

streets was certainly a technical accomplishment worth of scholarly investigation, the effects of those lights on

the life of city dwellers and tourists are even more fascinating. Bright lights at night created spaces for residents

and visitors to enjoy. Light was quickly identified with morally acceptable enjoyment. It provided order and

offered safety. Spaces left in the dark, by contrast, were associated with prostitution and criminal life. Soon city

governments found themselves under pressure to expand the street light system into the last dark corners. Light

and light posts became symbols for the protection of moral life. As Kenny concludes, studying the creation of

modern infrastructures simply as technological accomplishments proves insufficient. Street lights and mass

transportation are elements of city life. Urban dwellers do not just live around them. They develop emotional

relationships to these integral parts of urban life. Identities and Emotions are shaped by these relationships.

Becky M. Nicolaides and James Zarsadiaz, “Design Assimilation in Suburbia: Asian

Americans. Built Landscapes, and Suburban Advantage in Los Angeles’s San Gabriel

Valley since 1970,” Journal of Urban History (November 2015).

In recent years, scholarly concern to render a more diverse—and therefore historically honest—account of

American suburbia has focused our attention on places where immigrant and ethnic identity is expressed visibly

in the landscape. This research agenda has yielded such important theoretical concepts as the “ethnoburb” and

recuperated the agency of immigrant actors in the revitalization of urban and suburban space. Yet in this

important article Nicolaides and Zarsadiaz remind us that places of ethnic invisibility—where Anglo design

aesthetics have persisted in the face of profound demographic change—are equally deserving of our attention

because they point to the enduring availability of American design traditions as spatial and ideological resources

through which immigrants claim a place in American social life. Integrating histories and theories of

suburbanization, Asian immigration, and globalization with first-rate empirical research, Nicolaides and

Zarsadiaz develop the concept of “design assimilation” to account for suburban places where “newcomer

acceptance of long-standing design traditions is an integral part of the local social dynamic.” They investigate two

such suburbs in Los Angeles’s San Gabriel Valley, both of which have been deeply affected by changes to

immigration policy since 1965: the affluent neighborhood of San Marino and the middle-class suburbs of Walnut

and Diamond Bar. The research setting in the San Gabriel Valley is important because this is the very place

where the concept of the “ethnoburb” has been most thoroughly developed. Yet, as the authors show, the existence

of the ethnoburb is what makes design assimilation suburbs not only possible, but constitutive of a suburban

region that is highly variegated by neighborhood-specific constellations of ethnicity, class, landscape aesthetics,

and everyday politics. Through vivid stories rooted in their investigation of city council files, homeowners

association records, and 22 oral histories, amongst other sources, Nicolaides and Zarsadiaz show that Asian

Americans who reside in design assimilation suburbs visit ethnoburbs for their ethnic retail and social needs even

as they reject ethnoburbs as places to live—and that these decisions help them find community and acceptance

amongst their Anglo American neighbors. The result is a deeply textured and nuanced portrait of the globalizing

suburb, one that shows the diversity of immigrant suburbs as well as their relationships to each other, and that

does justice to all of the subtle and not-so-subtle choices that immigrants make about collectively inhabiting and

producing suburban space.


Dylan Gottlieb, Princeton University

“Hoboken is Burning: Yuppies, Arson, and Displacement in Post-Industrial New

York”

Several excellent studies have enlightened urban historians about the artists, musicians, academics, and other brownstoners who moved into declining big city neighborhoods during the late 1960s and early 1970s, but little work exists on the second wave of gentrification after the real estate market underwent a dramatic shift in the late 1970s. Dylan Gottlieb’s gracefully written, deeply researched paper explains how arson, displacement of a mostly Puerto Rican population, and condominium conversion transfigured Hoboken, New Jersey, a square-mile city of 45,000 just across the Hudson River from New York City. Gottlieb shows how white collar professionals, mostly employed in Manhattan finance and business service firms, moved into Hoboken to take advantage of the short commute to work. The story underscores the role of arson as a tool of displacement in gentrification, further explaining the postindustrial transformation of New York City and other big cities during the 1970s and 1980s.

Raymond Mohl Best Graduate Paper Award at the Eighth Biennial Conference

Peter Constantine Pihos, “Policing, Race, and Politics in Chicago,”

University of Pennsylvania, 2015.

Peter Pihos’s “Policing, Race, and Politics in Chicago” grapples with many of the most pressing political and

historiographical issues of our time with exceptional acuity and unusual narrative elegance. Chicago police

officer and political activist Renault Robinson and the highly influential Afro-American Patrolmen’s League sit

at the center of Pihos’s story. These officers’ embrace of Black Power politics amid an attempt to remake

Chicago’s police department and its relationship with black Chicagoans in the 1960s, 1970s, and beyond helped

transform Chicago’s political landscape. The story of their efforts, as Pihos deftly shows, complicate a wide

range of narratives about modern U.S. history, from the federal government’s role in punitive policing to civil

rights activists’ transition from “protest to politics.” Fundamentally, Pihos’s work is a testimony to the power of

urban history, underscoring how deeply researched, well-told stories about the city can shed light on pivotal

national trends.

Andrew Robichaud, “The Animal City: Remaking Human and Animal Lives in

America, 18200-1910,” Stanford University, 2015.

As Andrew Robichaud noted American cities were once full of a variety of domesticated, semi-domesticated, and

undomesticated species of animals. By the early twentieth century, however, the range of human-animal

relationships and the geography of certain animal populations in cities were utterly transformed. Robichaud's

elegantly written and painstaking researched dissertation reveals how changing relationships between human

and animal populations re-made urban space, social life, and economies. He deftly reconstructs how human-

animal relationships, centered around food, labor, companionship, and entertainment, intersected in unexpected

ways with infrastructure, industrial development, urban planning, and social and legal reform. The

dissertation creatively combines approaches drawn from urban and environmental history with those from new

digital history methodologies, and makes a compelling case for taking non-human actors seriously as agents of

historical change.

Michael Katz Award for Best Dissertation Completed in 2015

Katz Award Honorable Mention


Award Winners

Nancy H. Kwak, Co-winner of the Kenneth Jackson Best Book Award (North America)

Benjamin Looker, Co-winner of the Kenneth Jackson Best Book Award (North America)

Nicolas Kenny, Co-Winner of the Arnold Hirsch Award for Best Scholarly Article

Becky M. Nicolaides & James Zarsadiaz, Co-Winners of the Arnold Hirsch Award for Best Scholarly Article

Andrew Robichaud, winner of the Michael Katz Best Dissertation Award

Dylan Gottlieb, winner of the Raymond Mohl Best Graduate Paper


Previous Award Winners

N.D.B. Connolly, Co-winner of Kenneth Jackson Best Book Award (North America), 2014

Marta Gutman, Co-winner of Kenneth Jackson Best Book Award (North America), 2014

Alexander Martin, Co-Winner of Best Book (Non-North American), 2013-2014

Ato Quayson, Co-Winner of Best Book (Non-North American), 2013-2014

Chloe Taft, Katz Award Winner for Best Dissertation completed in 2014

A. K. Sandoval-Strausz, Winner of the Arnold Hirsch Award for Best Scholarly Article, 2014


Executive Director Report

The UHA enjoyed its largest-ever

biennial conference in October

2016, with 722 registrants attend-

ing the four-day event at the Wa-

ter Tower Campus of Loyola Uni-

versity Chicago. The conference

included more than 150 sessions,

as well as historical tours, disser-

tation workshops, two evening re-

ceptions, a book exhibit, and a ga-

la banquet (see cover story, pages

1-3).

Organizing and hosting such an

event is a monumental undertak-

ing. I want to extend my special

thanks to outgoing UHA President

Timothy Gilfoyle, who directed

local arrangements, as well as Pro-

gram Committee co-chairs Nathan

Connolly and Donna Murch. Their

leadership and hard work, as well

as that of so many others too nu-

merous to list here by name, made

the Eighth Biennial a success.

Moreover, I want to thank all the

volunteers—graduate students,

tour guides, dissertation mentors,

award committee members, local

arrangement committee members,

and so many others—who gener-

ously donated their time, energy,

and enthusiasm. I also want to

thank our sponsors, who provided

crucial financial and in-kind assis-

tance. Last, but certainly not least,

I want to thank those of you who

participated in the conference—

either on the program or as at-

tendees. You are the most im-

portant part of the equation!

Thank you.

I am happy to report that the

UHA is financially healthy. The

large number of conference regis-

trations coupled with President

Gilfoyle’s outstanding fundraising

for the conference ($37,500), al-

lowed to the UHA to reimburse

the transportation expenses to and

from the conference for 66 gradu-

ate students who were on the pro-

gram. The leadership of the UHA

believes that this is a good invest-

ment in the organization’s future.

Even after reimbursing the gradu-

ate students, a healthy conference

revenue remained, which will be

used to cover UHA operating ex-

penses and strengthen financial

reserves.

Membership Secretary, Professor

Cindy Lobel, reports that as of De-

cember 31, 2016, the UHA has 596

active members. This number does

not include 267 non-members who

registered for the most recent con-

ference. In January 2017, they will

receive one free year of UHA mem-

bership. We hope many of them,

after a year, will decide to renew

and become regular members. In

this way, we hope to assist in

growing UHA membership.

The 2016 UHA elections, held in

September and October, resulted

in a new President, President-

Elect, and seven Directors to the

Board—President: Richard Harris,

McMaster University; President-

Elect: Heather Ann Thompson,

University of Michigan; Board Di-

rectors: Julio Capó, Jr., University

of Massachusetts-Amherst; Brod-

wyn Fischer, University of Chica-

go; Elizabeth Hinton, Harvard

University; Elaine Lewinnek, Cali-

fornia State University-Fullerton;

Andrew Needham, New York Uni-

versity; Anthony Pratcher, Univer-

sity of Pennsylvania; and Lena

Suk, University of Louisiana at

Lafayette.

The UHA would like to thank out-

going President Timothy Gilfoyle,

as well as the seven outgoing

Board Directors for their service:

Mauricio Castro, Purdue Universi-

ty; Themis Chronopoulos,

Swansea University; Lily Geismer;

Claremont McKenna College; Paul

Gleye, North Dakota State Univer-

sity; Andrew Highsmith, Universi-

ty of California, Irvine; Michelle

Nickerson, Loyola University Chi-

cago; and Anton Rosenthal, Uni-

versity of Kansas.

If you plan to attend the 2017

AHA in Denver (January 5-8),

please see “The UHA at the AHA”

on page 16 for a listing of UHA-

sponsored sessions. And if you

plan to be at the 2017 OAH in

New Orleans, I invite you to at-

tend the annual UHA luncheon,

where Professor Craig Colten of

Louisiana State University will

speak on “Exporting Risk: New

Orleans, Commerce, and Flood

Water Diversion.” The luncheon is

on Saturday, April 8, 2017, 12:30-

2:00. Tickets are $50 and may be

purchased from the OAH when

registering for the conference:

http://www.oah.org/meetings-

events/2017/luncheons/

Finally, even as the UHA enjoys

the success of the Eighth Biennial

Conference in Chicago, planning

has already begun for the Ninth

Biennial Conference to be held on

the campus of the University of

South Carolina in Columbia,

South Carolina, in the fall of 2018.

Jessica Elfenbein (University of

South Carolina) is chairing local

arrangements. The co-chairs of the

Program Committee are LaDale

Winling (Virginia Tech) and

Elaine Lewinnek (California State

University-Fullerton). We hope to

see you in Columbia in 2018!

— Timothy B. Neary

UHA Executive Director

Salve Regina University

http://www.oah.org/meetings-events/2017/luncheons/


The Board of Directors of the Urban History Association (UHA) is soliciting sep-

arate Requests for Proposals from interested institutions and parties to stage

the Eleventh Biennial UHA Conference in 2022 and the Twelth Biennial UHA

Conference in 2024. Information on past conferences is available at: http://

www.urbanhistory.org/conference

Ideal proposals should include the following information:

Name of the primary sponsoring institution or institutions with relevant con-

tact addresses, email, and telephone numbers;

Names of potential secondary sponsors to assist funding the conference;

Possible location of rooms for concurrent panels (approximately 100 total) on

Friday and Saturday (4 different time slots between 8:30 am and 4pm), and

Sunday morning;

Possible location for a book exhibit to accommodate 10-15 publishers;

Possible open space for informal gathering and networking;

Potential conference hotels with price ranges;

Potential space for receptions as well as a gala dinner to accommodate

150-200 people;

Any innovative ideas for the conference program.

Please submit proposals via email to Timothy Neary, Executive Director,

Urban History Association, [email protected]


Urban History Association

Biennial Meetings

Request for Proposals, 2022 and 2024

http://www.urbanhistory.org/conference

http://www.urbanhistory.org/conference

mailto:[email protected]

In Memoriam:

Louise Carroll Wade


On February 17, our friend

and colleague, professor

emerita Louise Carroll Wade,

passed away, just a few days

before eighty-eighth birth-

day.

Louise grew up in Toledo,

Ohio. She held a B.A. from

Wellesley College and earned

a Ph.D. from the University

of Rochester. She had been

married to Richard Wade, an

eminent urban historian at

the University of Chicago. Af-

ter their divorce, she came

west to Eugene, driving here

in 1975 in a bright gold VW

Beetle that announced her

presence for some years

thereafter.

At the University of Oregon,

Professor Wade taught a

wide variety of courses in

American history, notably in

the fields of labor, social and

urban history. As a teacher of

both undergraduates and

graduate students she was

known for her careful prepa-

ration, infectious enthusiasm

in the classroom, and concern

for her students’ success.

Before her arrival at the Uni-

versity of Oregon, she had

published Graham Taylor:

Pioneer for Social Justice

1851-1938

(University of Chicago Press,

1964). In 1987, Chicago's

Pride: The Stockyards, Pack-

ingtown, and Environs in the

Nineteenth Century appeared.

A meticulous study of living

and working conditions, it

challenged long-standing ste-

reotypes about this iconic

Chicago setting.

She soon followed the book

with an influential article

that counterpoised her re-

search on Packingtown and

the Stockyards with the Up-

ton Sinclair’s portrait in The

Jungle and suggested that

Sinclair’s novel worked better

as fiction and propaganda

than as reliable history. De-

spite the range of her teach-

ing, urban history was her

primary scholarly concern.

Although Chicago had been

the focus of much of her re-

search, her definition of the

field was wide enough to en-

compass Eugene, and she had

done substantial research on

this city’s history. She com-

plemented her book projects

with many articles and book

reviews.

Soon after her retirement,

Louise Wade endowed the

Benjamin H. Carroll and

Louise L. Carroll Visiting

Professorship in Urbaniza-

tion, named in honor of her

parents. Rotating among the

History, Political Science and

Geography Departments, it

has brought eminent senior

and promising junior scholars

of cities to campus to teach

undergraduates and gradu-

ate students alike and to de-

liver public lectures on topics

in urban studies. The Carroll

Professorship has been a val-

ued institution on campus

since it was instituted in

2000.

Louise Wade’s scholarship,

teaching and service to the

University of Oregon and the

profession reflected her char-

acter. Louise was forthright

and direct but always good

humored and gracious. She

will be sorely missed, and her

contributions to the Depart-

ment and the University will

remind us always of a valued

colleague and dear friend.

— Daniel Pope

Professor Emeritus

Department of History

University of Oregon

In Memoriam:

Mark S. Foster


Mark S. Foster, Professor

Emeritus, University of Colo-

rado Denver, (May 2, 1939 -

October 21, 2016) was a pro-

lific scholar of twentieth-

century American history,

authoring eleven books, plus

dozens of articles. Among his

most well-known books are

From Streetcar to Superhigh-

way: American City Planners

and Urban Transportation

1900‑1940 (1981); Henry J.

Kaiser: Builder in the Modern

American West (1989); and

Castles in the Sand: The Life

and Times of Carl G. Fisher

(2000).

Foster taught at the Univer-

sity of Colorado Denver for

thirty-three years, beginning

in 1972 at what was then a

young campus, and retiring

in 2005, having helped the

university grow toward ma-

turity. His dynamic teaching

and intense dedication trans-

formed many students into

enthusiastic historians. He

loved nothing more than

sharing his excitement and

apparently infinite

knowledge about history with

everyone—students and col-

leagues, as well as friends in

any setting.

That excitement about histo-

ry combined with Foster’s av-

id sportsmanship to produce

three scholarly books and

many articles on the history

of baseball in Colorado. The

combination also energized

decades of participation in

nineteenth-century vintage

baseball. In addition, that

blend of historian and sports-

man animated countless

guest lectures in which Fos-

ter wore his vintage baseball

uniform, alternating between

the voice of an 1870s-era gen-

tleman with decidedly illiber-

al attitudes and his histori-

an’s voice.

Foster earned his B.A. in Phi-

losophy at Brown University

in 1961. At the University of

Southern California, he

earned a Master’s degree in

1968 and a Ph.D. in 1971,

both in American history. His

research and teaching won

numerous honors at CU Den-

ver, including Teacher of the

Year in 1983 and Researcher

of the Year in 2001, plus the

University of Colorado Medal

in 2007.

Contributions are welcome to

the Mark Foster Scholarship

in History Fund at the Uni-

versity of Colorado Denver. If

interested, please visit:

www.giving.cu.edu/

markfoster

— Pamela W. Laird

Professor

University of Colorado

Denver

http://www.giving.cu.edu/markfoster

http://www.giving.cu.edu/markfoster

UHAUHAUHA---Sponsored Sessions at the AHASponsored Sessions at the AHASponsored Sessions at the AHA


“Whither Neoliberalism? An Interdisci-

plinary Conversation on Neoliberal-

ism’s Role in the City and Its Place in

Historical Scholarship”

Friday, January 6, 2017: 1:30pm—3:00pm

Colorado Convention Center, Mile High Ball-

room 4c

Chair: Margaret O'Mara, University of Washing-

ton

Speakers:

Brent Cebal, University of Richmond

Lily Geismer, Claremont McKenna College

Rachel Guberman, American Academy of

Arts and Sciences

Stephanie Mudge, University of California,

Davis

“Rewriting Busing: New Histories of

School Desegregation”

Friday, January 6, 2017: 8:30am—10:00am

Hyatt Regency Denver, Centennial Ballroom

H76

Chair: Mark R. Brilliant, University of Califor-

nia, Berkeley

Panelists:

Matthew Delmont, Arizona State University

Ansley T. Erickson, Teachers College, Colum-

bia University

Brett V. Gadsden, Emory University

Tom I. Romero II, University of Denver

“Local Spaces, Global Ties: Urbaniza-

tion in 20thCentury Latin America”

Saturday, January 7, 2017: 10:30am—12:00pm

Colorado Convention Center, Mile High Ball-

room 4c

Chair: Ernesto Capello, Macalester College

Panelists:

Jennifer Hoyt, Berry College

Leandro Benmergui, Purchase College, State

University of New York

Shawn W. Miller, Brigham Young University

Andra Brosy Chastain, Yale University

Comment: Brodwyn M. Fischer, University of

Chicago

“Race, Space, and the Law in

Metropolitan Context”

Sunday, January 8, 2017: 9:00—10:30am

Sheraton Denver Downtown, Plaza Ballroom

D304

Chair: Walter Greason, Monmouth University

Panelist:

Walter Greason, Monmouth University

Julian Chambliss, Rollins College

David E. Goldberg, University of Pittsburgh

at Johnstown

The UHA at the OAHThe UHA at the OAHThe UHA at the OAH


UHA Roundtable

“New Histories of Gentrification,” April 7, 2017, 9:00-10:30am Since sociologist Ruth Glass coined “gentrification” in 1964, the term has denoted racial change, class transfor-

mation, and architectural rehabilitation in American cities. Yet as a simple label that describes a complicated

process, gentrification has also created both physical and rhetorical spaces of contested meaning, often obscuring

as much as it reveals. Is gentrification good for cities or bad? Does it symbolize the renaissance of urban places

or new kinds of urban crisis? Sorting out these meanings has long been the province of sociologists, geographers,

and urban theorists. Only in the last decade have historians turned an eye to gentrification, accepting its ambi-

guity but also seeking to understand it as a process with deep roots, diverse actors, and complex consequences.

In recent and forthcoming works, urban historians have uncovered a story that cannot be understood through

binaries of winners and losers, or insider and outsiders. In doing so, they have given a multifaceted history to

the most recent period of urban change. This round table offers an opportunity for historians working on such

questions to discuss these new histories of gentrification and the insights they offer on a process that is still very

much underway, even as Glass’s term is a half-century old. The scholars assembled here take historical studies

of gentrification in new directions by focusing on the role of universities, community organizations, historic

preservation, artists, and affordable housing, among other aspects. They will discuss different ways of approach-

ing the history of gentrification, the varied histories that result, and the methodological challenges of this field.

Chair: Aaron Shkuda, Princeton University

Panelists:

Francesca Ammon, University of Pennsylvania

Davarian Baldwin, Trinity College, Connecticut

Brian Goldstein, University of New Mexico

Suleiman Osman, George Washington University

Annual UHA Luncheon at the OAH “Exporting Risk: New Orleans, Commerce, and Flood Water Diversion”

Craig E. Colten

Carl O. Sauer Professor

Louisiana State University

Saturday, April 8, 2017, 12:30-2:00 PM From its founding, New Orleans has hunkered down behind ever-growing levees built to a

blockade to the annual risk of Mississippi River floods. To protect its commercial infrastruc-

ture, the city has supported efforts to divert flood waters through natural and human made

floodways and impose new risks on rural residents. In the face of rising sea levels and a subsid-

ing shore, the city is supporting current state efforts to restore the coast. This position, once

again, is forcing non-urban residents to adapt to changing conditions. The situation in Louisi-

ana offers a glimpse into the larger urban-rural conflicts that will accompany climate change. More at


UHA board meeting at the OAH

in New Orleans will be on

Saturday, April 8, 2017 9:00—11:00 AM


ANNOUNCEMENTSANNOUNCEMENTSANNOUNCEMENTS


Present Of f icers and Directors

President: Timothy Gilfoyle / Loyola University Chicago

President-Elect: Richard Harris / McMaster University

Executive Director: Timothy Neary / Salve Regina University

Editor of the Journal of Urban History: David Goldfield / University of North Carolina-Charlotte

Membership Secretary: Cindy R. Lobel / Lehman College, CUNY

Directors:

Through December 31, 2018: Anna Alexander / Georgia Southern University; Alison J. Bruey / Uni-

versity of North Florida; Shane Ewen / Leeds Beckett University; Brian Goldstein / University of

New Mexico; Carola Hein / Delft University of Technology; Kristin Stapleton / University of Buffalo,

SUNY; Lawrence J. Vale / Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Through December 31, 2017: Davarian Baldwin / Trinity College; Martha Biondi / Northwestern Uni-

versity; Nathan Connolly / New York University; Rebecca Madigan / University of Glasgow; Cathe-

rine McNeur / Portland State University; Todd Michney / University of Toledo; Donna Murch / Rut-

gers University

Through December 31, 2016: Mauricio Castro / Purdue University; Themis Chronopoulos / University

of East Anglia; Lily Geismer / Claremont McKenna College; Paul Gleye / North Dakota State Univer-

sity; Andrew Highsmith / University of California-Irvine; Michelle Nickerson / Loyola University

Chicago; Anton Rosenthal / University of Kansas

A full list including past officers and directors can be found at:

http://www.urbanhistory.org/Officers-and-directors and

http://www.urbanhistory.org/Past-Leadership

VOLUNTEER NEEDEDVOLUNTEER NEEDEDVOLUNTEER NEEDED

Consider volunteering to become the next

editor of the Urban History Association’s

biannual newsletter.

If interested, please contact Timothy Neary at

[email protected]

Advanced graduate students are encouraged to apply. You may contact Patrick

Potyondy with any questions at [email protected]

http://www.urbanhistory.org/Officers-and-directors

http://www.urbanhistory.org/Past-Leadership




Temple University Press adds a new editor to the

Urban Life , Landscape and Policy Series

Temple University Press is pleased to announce the addition of Davarian L. Baldwin, Paul E. Raether Distin-

guished Professor of American Studies at Trinity College, to the Urban Life, Landscape and Policy (ULLP) se-

ries editorial team. Baldwin, the author of Chicago’s New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black

Urban Life, joins current series editors David Stradling and Larry Bennett. Zane Miller, founding editor of the

series, passed away earlier this year.

Series co-editor David Stradling observed, “When Zane passed away, we couldn’t really imagine how he could be

replaced. He was, after all, the founding editor of the series, and he shaped it in every way possible. We set out

to find a scholar who could provide the essential aspects of editing that Zane embodied: he was a great mentor

to both young and established authors; and, he was a tremendous advocate for urban history. We immediately

thought of Davarian, whose work has been innovative and influential—and right at the heart of our field. Da-

varian is a natural mentor, and I know he will be an essential contributor to the continued vibrancy of our se-

ries.”

Baldwin was honored to be asked to join the editorial team. He acknowledged, “Zane Miller was a major figure

in the field, and it’s humbling to play a part in a series he founded. Zane was very adamant about the ULLP

series being an opportunity to not just put out great books but to mentor young authors navigating the publish-

ing process, and that is a signature element of the series that I definitely want to continue.”

He added, “What I liked about the series is that while most people in urban studies fall on one side of what has

become a pretty rigid divide between the social sciences and the humanities, ULLP brings together the built

environment, policymaking, and everyday life all in once series. With so many people calling this the ‘Urban

Century,’ there’s no better place for me to be in academia than in a series that deals with urban affairs with

such a wide-ranging approach. I now seek to make sure that books in the ULLP series maintain a critical

breadth and historical depth that keeps the series at the cutting edge of the field. It’s exciting to be working

with scholars whose work I’m familiar with and know, and to see they are excited to take the series in new di-

rections. I’m very honored to play a role in that.”

Larry Bennett echoes the enthusiasm, “I am so delighted that Davarian Baldwin is joining the Urban Life,

Landscapes, and Policy editorial team. Davarian’s work represents a provocative amalgam of urban history and

social commentary. I look forward to his both soliciting and reviewing historical texts that fall within that amor-

phous but nevertheless key category, mainstream urban history, but also, bringing to the series a sensibility

that will attract authors whose interests touch on race and cultural topics, international urbanism, and more

contemporary discussions of cities, culture, and policy.”

Baldwin emphasized, “Like Larry and David, I pay attention to historical and contemporary urban studies. At

the same time, I hope to bring a new orbit of colleagues and interests with focus on the intellectual and cultural

landscape of urban life with particular attention to urban race relations and African American life, all with an

eye to their global context.”

A historian, cultural critic, and social theorist of urban America, Baldwin’s work largely examines the landscape

of global cities through the lens of the African Diasporic experience. In addition to teaching and writing, he

serves on the Executive Board of the Urban History Association, the Editorial Board for the Journal of Urban

History, and was appointed a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians.

The editors in the ULLP series seek proposals that analyze processes of urban change relevant to the

future of cities and their metropolitan regions, and that examine urban and regional planning, envi-

ronmental issues, and urban policy studies, thus contributing to ongoing debates.



GERMAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE

The German Studies Association (GSA) will hold its 41st Annual Conference in Atlanta,

Georgia (USA), 5-8 October 2017.

The Program Committee cordially invites proposals on any aspect of German, Austrian, or Swiss studies, in-

cluding (but not limited to) history, Germanistik, film, art history, political science, anthropology, musicology,

religious studies, sociology, and cultural studies. Proposals for entire sessions, for interdisciplinary presenta-

tions, and for series of panels are strongly encouraged (though we discourage thematic series of more than four

panels). Individual paper proposals are also welcome. The call for seminar proposals has been distributed sepa-

rately.

Please see the GSA website for information about the submission process for ‘traditional’ papers, sessions, and

roundtables, which will open on January 5, 2017. All proposals must be submitted online; paper forms are not

used. The deadline for proposals is February 15, 2017.

Please note that presenters must be members of the German Studies Association. Information on member-

ship is available on the GSA website (www.thegsa.org).

For more information, visit the GSA website, where previous conference programs and a detailed list of sub-

mission guidelines may be found (www.thegsa.org), or contact members of the 2017 Program Commit-

tee:https://thegsa.org/conference/current.html

Kenneth T. Jackson, past president and founder of the Urban History Association, received

Columbia University’s Alexander Hamilton Medal for distinguished service on Novem-

ber 17th. The Hamilton Medal is the university’s highest honor and has been awarded since 1947.

Jackson is director of the Herbert H. Lehman Center for the Study of American History and is

the Jacques Barzun Professor of History and the Social Sciences at Columbia, where he has

chaired the Department of History. He is general editor of the Columbia History of Urban Life

and was editor-in-chief of the Dictionary of American Biography 1990–96 and of Scribner’s Ency-

clopedia of American Lives 1996–2005. His best known publication, Crabgrass Frontier: The Sub-

urbanization of the United States (1985), won the Francis Parkman and the Bancroft Prizes.

Jackson is editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of New York City. He has been leading New York

City all-night bicycle rides, three-hour walking tours and all-day bus trips for decades. At Colum-

bia, he teaches urban, social and military history.

In 1989, the College presented him the Mark Van Doren Award for Teaching. In 1999, the Socie-

ty of Columbia Graduates presented him a Great Teacher Award.

Kenneth Jackson is a past president of the Organization of American History. As well, he is a na-

tionally recognized advocate for advancing history education at the pre-baccalaureate level.

Timothy Neary, UHA Executive Director and Salve Regina University associate professor of

history, had his book, Crossing Parish Boundaries: Race, Sports, and Catholic Youth in

Chicago, 1914-1954, published by the University of Chicago Press in October 2016 as part of the

Historical Studies of Urban America series.

http://www.thegsa.org

http://www.thegsa.org

https://thegsa.org/conference/current.html

Martin V. Melosi, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen

University Professor and Director of the Center for

Public History, received the “Distinguished Scholar

Award” for 2016 at the American Society for

Environmental History conference in Seattle on April

2. The award recognizes an individual “who has

contributed significantly to environmental history

scholarship” over a career. Melosi is only the eighth

recipient of the award, which is the highest honor in

the field. He has written or edited nineteen books and

more than 100 articles and book chapters. His The

Sanitary City (2000) won the top prize in four

different fields of study, and he has been a visiting

scholar/fellow in France, Germany, Finland, and

China, and also held the Fulbright Chair in American

Studies at the University of Southern Denmark.



The American Catholic Historical Association

awarded Bill Issel, Professor of History Emeritus,

San Francisco State University, and the 2015-2016

John E. McGinty Chair in History at Salve Regina

History, the 2017 Distinguished Scholar Award. The

award is bestowed on the scholar who, in the opinion

of the committee making the selection, has during a

long career made a significant impact on the

understanding of Catholic history. The award is not

for one book or any single piece of scholarship, but for

a sustained series of contributions which have

fundamentally animated the research of others

besides being significant in their own right.

Seventy-five years after the work's completion, historian John D. Buenker presents

this Federal Writers Project city guide of Milwaukee, Wis., a time capsule-style look at

the city of Milwaukee of the 1930s, neighborhood by neighborhood, building by

building. Buenker's thoughtful introduction provides historical context, details the

FWP's development of this guide, as well as Milwaukee's political climate leading up to,

and during, the 1930s. Next, essays on thirteen "areas," ranging from Civic Center to

Bay View, delve deeper into the geography, economy, and culture of old Milwaukee's

neighborhoods. Simulated auto tours take readers to locales still familiar today,

exploring the city's most celebrated landmarks and institutions. With a calendar of

annual events and a list of public services and institutions, plus dozens of photographs

from the era, Milwaukee in the 1930s, provides a unique record of a pre-World War II

American city.

The UHA will be seeking an

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

for the five-year term beginning January 1,

2020, and ending December 31, 2024.

Anyone interested in learning more about

the position should contact Tim Neary,

current UHA Executive Director, at

[email protected]




17th NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PLANNING HISTORY

Society for American City & Regional Planning History

Westin Cleveland Downtown

Cleveland, Ohio

October 26-29, 2017

We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the 17th National Conference on Planning History. In order

to submit a proposal, please complete the online submission form found at http://sacrph.org/conferences-2017

Call for Papers: SACRPH cordially invites scholars and practitioners to present papers and talks on all aspects

of urban, regional, and community planning history and their relationship to urban and metropolitan studies.

Particularly welcome are papers, talks, roundtables, and sessions addressing the theme of Theory and

Practice in Planning History. What is the relationship between the ideas shaping metropolitan development

and the history of the built environment?

SACRPH is an interdisciplinary organization dedicated to promoting humanistic scholarship on the planning of

metropolitan regions. SACRPH members include historians, practicing planners, geographers,

environmentalists, architects, landscape designers, public policy makers, preservationists, community

organizers, students, and scholars from across the world. SACRPH publishes a quarterly journal, The Journal of

Planning History, hosts a biennial conference, and sponsors awards for research and publication in the field.

The Program Committee welcomes proposals for complete sessions (of three or four papers) and for individual

papers. We also encourage submissions that propose innovative formats and that engage questions of teaching

and learning, digital information, and publishing. Proposals must be submitted by February 25, 2017 via

the online submission form included below.

Each proposal must include the following:

For individual paper submissions: a 100-word abstract

For individual paper submissions: a one-page CV, including address, phone, and e-mail (PDF or Word)

For panel submissions: a single document (PDF or Word) including cover page (indicating lead contact, with telephone and email, and the names—if available—of the session Chair and Commentator); a one-paragraph overview of the session’s themes and significance, plus a description of the format (panel, roundtable, workshop); a 100-word abstract for each proposed paper; and a one-page CV for each participant, including address, phone, and e-mail

For all submissions: four key words identifying the thematic emphases of the topic

Please format required attachments with a standard 12-point font and 1.25-inch side margins. Do not include

illustrations. Inquiries may be directed to Program Committee co-chairs: Julian Chambliss, Professor of History,

Rollins College, Florida; or David Freund, Associate Professor of History, University of Maryland, College Park.

http://sacrph.org/conferences-2017

http://sacrph.org/conferences-2017#Submission



All Power to the People. Oak-land Museum of California, Oct. 8, 2016 - Feb. 12, 2017. Art in Focus: Relics of Old Lon-don. Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Conn., May 11 - Aug. 14, 2016. The Battle of Brooklyn. New-York Historical Society, New York, Sept. 23, 2016 - Jan. 8, 2017. Bedlam: The Asylum and Be-yond. Wellcome Collection, London, UK, Sept. 15, 2016 - Jan. 15, 2017. Black Suburbia: From Levit-town to Ferguson. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Li-brary, New York, Oct. 1 - Dec. 31, 2015. By the People: Designing a Bet-ter America. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, Sept. 30, 2016 - Feb. 26, 2017. Celebrating 300 Years at the Warner House. Discover Ports-mouth Center, Portsmouth, N.H., June 1 - Sept. 2, 2016. A Civic Utopia: Architecture and the City in France, 1765-

1837. The Courtauld Gallery, London, UK, Oct. 8, 2016 - Jan. 8, 2017. Gay Gotham: Art and Under-ground Culture. Museum of the City of New York, Oct. 7, 2015 - Feb. 26, 2017. House Housing: An Untimely History of Architecture and Real Estate. Center for Architecture, New York, July 12 - Aug. 27, 2016. In the South Bronx of America: Photographs by Mel Rosenthal. Museum of the City of New York May 7, 2016 - Oct. 16, 2016. Invisible Man: Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison in Harlem. Art Institute Chicago, May 21 - Aug. 28, 2106. Mapping a Growing Nation: From Independence to State-hood. Library of Congress, North Gallery, Thomas Jefferson Building, Sept. 1 - ongoing. Martha Cooper: NYCasitas. Hi-ARTS Gallery, New York, Mar. 24 - May 28, 2016. Mierle Laderman Ukeles: Maintenance Art. Queens Muse-um [New York], Sept. 18, 2016 - Feb. 19, 2017. New York at Its Core. Museum of the City of New York Nov. 18, 2016 - ongoing. Stolen Heart: The Theft of Jew-ish Property in Berlin’s Historic City Center, 1933-1945. Center

for Jewish History, New York, Mar. 29 - Dec. 31, 2016. Truman Capote’s Brooklyn: The Lost Photographs of David Attie. Brooklyn (N.Y.) Histori-cal Society, July 20, 2016 - July 2017. Wayward Eye: The Photog-raphy of Denise Scott Brown. Palazzo Mora, Venice, Italy, May 13 - Nov. 27, 2016. Weegee’s Bowery. ICP Gallery at Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, N.J. May 1 - Aug. 5, 2016.

~ Matthew Gordon Las-ner, UHA Bibliographer for exhibitions and me-dia, is associate professor or urban studies, Department of Urban Policy & Planning, Hunter College. His research focuses on housing in the U.S. He is author of High Life: Con-do Living in the Suburban Cen-tury.

Benoist S. (2016), Une histoire personnelle de Rome. Des ori-gines au VIème siècle de notre ère, Paris, Presses Universi-taires de France. (Continued on next page)

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Chabrol M., Collet A., Giroud M., Launay L., Rousseau M., Ter Minassian H., (2016), Gen-trifications. Paris, Editions Amsterdam. Charmes E. & Bacqué M.-H. (2016), Mixité sociale et après ? Paris, Seuil. Chauvel L. (2016), La spirale du déclassement : Essai sur la société des illusions, Paris, Seuil. Chollet M. (2016), Chez soi : une odyssée de l’espace domes-tique, Paris, La Découverte. Demoulin J. (2016), La gestion du logement social, Paris, Presses Universitaires de Rennes. Escaffre F. & Jaillet M.-C. (2016), Une trajectoire métro-politaine : Toulouse, Paris, Le Moniteur. Ghorra-Gobin C. & Reghezza-Zitt M. (ed.) (2016), Entre local et global. Les territoires dans la mondialisation, Paris, Editions Le Manuscrit. Guilluy Ch. (2016), Le crépus-cule de la France d’en haut, Paris, Flammarion. Iogna-Prat D. (2016), Cité de Dieu, Cité des hommes. L’église et l’architecture de la société, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France.

Le Goix R. (2016), Sur le front de la métropole : une géogra-phie suburbaine de Los Angeles, Paris, Publications de la Sor-bonne. Lenne F. (2016), Ailleurs. Archi-tectes français à l’export, Paris, La Découverte. Lussault M. & Mongin O. (ed.) (2016), Cultures & créations dans les métropoles-monde, Pa-ris, Hermann.

~ Cynthia Ghorra-Gobin, UHA Bibliographer for French books, is CNRS-CREDA, University of Sorbonne Nouvelle- Paris 3, visiting pro-fessor UC Berkeley, spring se-mester, 2015.

Demschuk, Andrew. “Mausoleum for Bach?: Holy Relics and Urban Planning in Early Communist Leipzig, 1945-1950.” History and Memory 28:2 (Fall 2016): 47-88. Hess, Cordelia. “The Writing on the Barn: Content and Materiali-ty in Contested Documents of Northern German Towns.” A Journal of Germanic Studies 52:2 (May 2016): 155-72. Kholodilin, Konstantin. “War, housing rents, and free market: Berlin's rental housing during

World War I.” European Re-view of Economic History 20:3 (August 2016): 322-44. Kohl, Sebastian. “Urban Histo-ry Matters: Explaining the Ger-man–American Homeowner-ship.” Housing Studies 31:6 (September 2016): 694-713. Richter, Hedwig. “Transnational Reform and De-mocracy: Election Reforms in New York City and Berlin around 1900.” Journal of the Gilded Age & Progressive Era 15:2 (April 2016): 149-75. Sammartino, Annemarie. “Mass Housing, Late Modernism, and the Forging of Community in New York City and East Berlin, 1965-1989.” American Histori-cal Review 121:2 (April 2016): 492-521. Smelyansky, Eugene. “Urban Order and Urban Other: Anti-Waldensian Inquisition in Augsburg, 1393. German His-tory 34:1 (March 2016): 1-20.

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Barnstone, Deborah Ascher. Beyond the Bauhaus: Cultural modernity in Breslau, 1918-33. Ann Arbor: University of Mich-igan Press, 2016. Rubin, Eli. Amnesiopolis: Mo-dernity, Space, and Memory in East Germany. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Seipp, Adam. The Ordeal of Peace: Demobilization and the Urban Experience in Britain and Germany, 1917–1921. Lon-don and New York: Routledge, 2016. Ward, Simon. Urban Memory and Visual Culture in Berlin: Framing the Asynchronous City, 1957-2012. Amsterdam: Am-sterdam University Press, 2016.

~ Ute Chamberlin, UHA Bibliographer for Ger-man books and articles, is Assistant Professor of German History at Western Illinois Uni-versity in Macomb, Illinois. Her area of specialization is women and gender history. Her research interests are focused on women in the urban context of Imperial and Weimar Germany, in terms of education, charity, social work, and municipal politics, particularly in the Ruhr Valley. Fraser, Valerie. “Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980.” Journal Of The Society Of Architectural Histo-rians 74, no. 4 (December 2015): 515-516.

Cornejo, Tomás. "REPRESENTACIONES POP-ULARES DE LA VIDA URBA-NA: CIUDAD DE MÉXICO, 1890-1930." Historia Mexicana 65, no. 4 (April 2016): 1601-1651. Duarte, Adriano Luiz. "The Right to the City in Two Mo-ments: The Bus and Tram Riots in São Paulo City in 1947 and 2013." Historical Materialism 24, no. 3 (September 2016): 147-183. Ibarra, Macarena. "Hygiene and public health in Santiago de Chile's urban agenda, 1892–1927." Planning Perspectives 31, no. 2 (April 2016): 181-203. Lozano, José Carlos, Philippe Meers, and Daniel Biltereyst. "La experiencia social histórica de asistencia al cine en Monter-rey (Nuevo León, México) du-rante las décadas de 1930 a 1960." Palabra Clave 19, no. 3 (September 2016): 691-720. Trostel, Katharine G. "Memoryscapes: Urban Palimp-sests and Networked Jewish Memory in the Works of Tununa Mercado and Karina Pacheco Medrano." Partial Answers: Journal Of Literature And The

History Of Ideas 14, no. 2 (June 2016): 377-391. van Lindert, Paul. "Rethinking urban development in Latin America: A review of changing paradigms and policies." Habi-tat International 54, (May 3, 2016): 253-264. .

Davids, René. Shaping Terrain: City Building in Latin America. Gainesville, Florida: University of Florida Press, 2016. Doyle, James A. Architecture and the Origins of Preclassic Maya Politics. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Drago Quaglia, Elisa. Alfonso Pallares: sembrador de ideas. México, D.F.: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Facultad de Arquitectura, 2016. Esteban Maluenda, Ana. La ar-quitectura moderna en Latino-américa: antología de autores, obras y textos. Barcelona: Edi-torial Reverté, 2016. (Continued on next page)



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Hernández Gálvez, Alejandro. Habitar La Ciudad. Ciudad de México: Arquine, 2016. Pohl, John M. D., and Claire L. Ly-ons. Altera Roma: Art and Em-pire from Mérida to México. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, 2016. Rodríguez Manzo, Fausto E., Gerardo G. Sánchez Ruiz, and Elisa Garay Vargas. La ciudad de México: visiones críticas desde la arquitectura, el urban-ismo y el diseño. Cuidad de México: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Azca-potzalco, 2016. Sluis, Ageeth. Deco Body, Deco City: Female Spectacle and Mo-dernity in Mexico City, 1900-1939. Lincoln, Nebraska: Univeristy of Nebraska Press, 2016.

~ Maria A. Loftin, Latin America Articles and Books Bibliographer, is a doctoral candidate in the Histo-ry of Ideas program at the Uni-versity of Texas at Dallas. Her dissertation focuses on the built environment and consumerism in Mexico City and Monterrey in the post-Revolutionary era.

Baics, Gergely. “The Geography of Urban Food Retail: Location-al Principles of Public Market Provisioning in New York City, 1790-1860.” Urban History 43:3 (2016): 435-53. Baics, Gergely and Leah Meis-terlin. “Zoning Before Zoning: Land Use and Density in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New York City.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 106:5 (2016): 1152-75. Beyer-Purvis, Amanda. “The Philadelphia Bible Riots of 1844: Contest over the Rights of Citizens.” Pennsylvania History 83:3 (2016): 366-93. Crouch, Christian Ayne. “The Black City: African and Indian Exchanges in Pontiac’s Upper Country.” Early American Stud-ies 14:2 (2016): 284-318. Field, Kendra and Daniel Lynch. “‘Master of Ceremonies’: The World of Peter Biggs in Civil War-Era Los Angeles.” Western Historical Quarterly 47:4 (2016): 379-406. Kiechle, Melanie. “Navigating by Nose: Fresh Air, Stench Nui-sance, and the Urban Environ-ment, 1840-1880.” Journal of Urban History 42:4 (2016): 753-71.

Mach, Andrew. “‘The Name of Freeman is Better Than Jesuit’: Anti-Catholicism, Republican Ideology, and Cincinnati Politi-cal Culture, 1853-1854.” Ohio Valley History 15:4 (2015): 3-21. Neidenbach, Elizabeth C. “‘Refugee from St. Domingue Living in This City’: The Geog-raphy of Social Networks in Testaments of Refugee Free Women of Color in New Orle-ans.” Journal of Urban History 42:5 (2016): 841-62. O'Brassill-Kulfan, Kristin. “Vagabonds and Paupers: Race and Illicit Mobility in the Early Republic.” Pennsylvania Histo-ry 83:4 (2016): 443-69. Pitock, Toni. “Commerce and Community: Philadelphia's Ear-ly Jewish Settlers, 1736-76.” Pennsylvania Magazine of His-tory and Biography 140:3 (2016): 271-303. Reichard, Ruth D. “A ‘National Distemper’: The National Hotel Sickness of 1857, Public Health and Sanitation, and the Limits of Rationality.” Journal of Planning History 15:3 (2016): 175-90. Salvucci, Linda K. and Richard J. Salvucci. “The Lizardi Broth-ers: A Mexican Family Busi-ness and the Expansion of New Orleans, 1825-1846.” Journal of Southern History 82:4 (2016): 759-88. (Continued on next page)



U.S. ARTICLES

PRE-1865

Scherr, Arthur. “To ‘Alarm the Publick Mind’: A Reexamina-tion of Pamphlets and Newspa-pers in Philadelphia and the Early Republic.” Pennsylvania History 83:3 (2016): 297-336. Scott, Sean A. “‘The Glory of the City is Gone’: Perspectives of Union Soldiers on New Orle-ans during the Civil War.” Loui-siana History 57:1 (2016): 45-69. Smith, Matthew D. “The Spec-ter of Cholera in Nineteenth-Century Cincinnati.” Ohio Val-ley History 16:2 (2016): 21-40. Storey, Margaret M. “A Con-quest of Manners: Gender, So-ciability, and Northern Wives’ Occupation of Memphis, 1862-1865.” Ohio Valley History 15:1 (2015): 4-20.

Arkaraprasertkul, Non. “The Social Poetics of Urban Design: Rethinking Urban Design through Louis Kahn’s Vision for Central Philadelphia (1939-1962).” Journal of Urban De-sign 21:6 (2016): 731-45. Bates, Jason L. “Consolidating Support for a Law ‘Incapable of Enforcement’: Segregation on Tennessee Streetcars, 1900-1930.” Journal of Southern His-tory 82:1 (2016): 97-126. Beisaw, April M. “Water for the

City, Ruins for the Country: Ar-chaeology of the New York City Watershed.” International Jour-nal of Historical Archaeology 20:3 (2016): 614-26. Brody, Jason. “How Ideas Work: Memes and Institutional Materi-al in the First 100 Years of the Neighborhood Unit.” Journal of Urbanism 9:4 (2016): 329-52. Brooks, Emily. “Marijuana in La Guardia’s New York City: The Mayor’s Committee and Federal Policy, 1938-1945.” Journal of Policy History 28:4 (2016): 568-96. Brown, Nancy. “Challenging Economic Borders: Fort Wayne, Indiana, and Chemnitz, Germa-ny.” Indiana Magazine of Histo-ry 112:1 (2016): 1-32. Bunk, Brian D. “Boxer in New York: Spaniards, Puerto Ricans, and Attempts to Construct a His-pano Race.” Journal of Ameri-can Ethnic History 35:4 (2016): 32-58. Butler, Jon. “God, Gotham, and Modernity.” Journal of Ameri-can History 103:1 (2016): 19-33. Cimino, Eric C. “Safeguarding the Innocent: Travelers’ Aid at the Panama-California Exposi-tion, 1915.” Journal of San Die-go History 61:3-4 (2015): 455-74. Engstrand, Iris and Matthew Schiff. “San Diego Invites the World: The 1915 Exposition, A Pictorial Essay.” Journal of San Diego History 61:2 (2015): 337-50.

Ennis, Ron W. “Bethlehem Steelworkers, the Press, and the Struggle for the Eight-Hour Day.” Pennsylvania History 83:3 (2016): 337-65. Ervin, Keona K. “Breaking the ‘Harness of Household Slav-ery’: Domestic Workers, the Women’s Division of the St. Louis Urban League, and the Politics of Labor Reform during the Great Depression.” Interna-tional Labor and Working-Class History 88 (2015): 49-66. Ervin, Keona K. “We Rebel: Black Women, Worker Theater, and Critical Unionism in War-time St. Louis.” Souls: A Criti-cal Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society 18:1 (2016): 32-58. Gollner, Philipp. “How Men-nonites Became White: Reli-gious Activism, Cultural Pow-er, and the City.” Mennonite Quarterly Review 90:2 (2016): 165-93. González, Sergio M. “Interethnic Catholicism and Transnational Religious Con-nections: Milwaukee's Mexican Mission Chapel of Our Lady of Guadalupe, 1924-1929.” Jour-nal of American Ethnic History 36:1 (2016): 5-30. Hering, Katharina. “Voice of the Voteless: The District of Columbia League of Women Voters, 1921-1941.” Washing-ton History 28:1 (2016): 3-13. (Continued on next page)



U.S. ARTICLES

1865-1945

Hirsch, Susan E. “Ethnic and Civic Leadership in the Progres-sive Era: Charles H. Wacker and Chicago.” Journal of Amer-ican Ethnic History 35:4 (2016): 5-31. Howell, Thomas. “Kansas City's Crusader: Leon Birkhead and the Fight against Fascism.” Mis-souri Historical Review 110:4 (2016): 237-59. Jett, Brandon. “‘The Most Mur-derous Civilized City in the World’: Patterns of Homicide in Jim Crow Memphis, 1917-1926.” Tennessee Historical Quarterly 74:2 (2015): 104-27. Kohl, Sebastian. “Urban History Matters: Explaining the German-American Homeownership Gap.” Housing Studies 31:6 (2016): 694-713. Kubie, Oenone. “Reading Lewis Hine's Photography of Child Street Labour, 1906-1918.” Journal of American Studies 50:4 (2016): 873-97. Logan, John R. and Hyoung-jin Shin. “Birds of a Feather: Social Bases of Neighborhood For-mation in Newark, New Jersey, 1880.” Demography 53:4 (2016): 1085-1108. Parra, Carlos Francisco. “Lessons in Americanization: Educational Attainment and In-ternal Colonialism in Albuquer-que Public Schools, 1879-1942.” New Mexico Historical Review 91:2 (2016): 163-200. Shertzer, Allison, Randall P. Walsh, and John R. Logan.

“Segregation and Neighborhood Change in Northern Cities: New Historical GIS Data from 1900-1930.” Historical Methods 49:4 (2016): 187-97. Sinclair, Heather M. “White Plague, Mexican Menace: Mi-gration, Race, Class, and Gen-dered Contagion in El Paso, Texas, 1880-1930.” Pacific His-torical Review 85:4 (2016): 475-505. Sterba, Christopher M. “Transcultural San Francisco: Andrew Furuseth, Olaf Tve-itmoe, and the Forgotten Scandi-navian American Experience.” Pacific Historical Review 85:1 (2016): 72-109. Wilson, Charla. “Why the Y? The Origin of San Diego YMCA’s Clay Avenue Branch for African Americans.” Journal of San Diego History 62:3-4 (2016): 303-22. Wiltse, Jeff. “Cities are Alive with the Sound of Music: Saengerfest and the Transfor-mation of Urban Public Music in Nineteenth-century America.” American Nineteenth Century History 16:3 (2015): 269-96.

Abramson, Samuel. “Disorder at the Derby: Race, Reputation, and Louisville's 1967 Open

Housing Crisis.” Ohio Valley History 15:2 (2015): 28-48. Addie, Jean-Paul D. “On the Road to the In-Between City: Excavating Peripheral Urbani-sation in Chicago’s ‘Crosstown Corridor.’” Environment and Planning A 48:5 (2016): 825-43. Botein, Hilary. “Labor Unions and Race-conscious Housing in the Postwar Bay Area: Housing Projects of the International Longshoremen’s and Ware-housemen’s Union and the United Automobile Workers.” Journal of Planning History 15:3 (2016): 210-29. Bradford, Anita Casavantes. “‘Let the Cuban Community Aid Its Haitian Brothers’: Mon-signor Bryan Walsh, Miami’s Immi-grant Church, and the Making of a Multiethnic City, 1960-2000.” U.S. Catholic Historian 34:3 (2016): 99-126. Campo, Daniel. “Historic Preservation in an Economic Void: Reviving Buffalo’s Con-crete Atlantis.” Journal of Planning History 15:4 (2016): 314-45. Castro, Mauricio F. “Object Lesson: ‘All the Help I Needed, I Got Here’: Miami’s Freedom Tower and the Freedom Tower’s Miami.” Buildings & Landscapes 23:1 (2016): 16-28. (Continued on next page)



U.S. ARTICLES

POST-1945

Chatelain, Marcia. “The Miracle of the Golden Arches: Race and Fast Food in Los Angeles.” Pa-cific Historical Review 85:3 (2016): 325-53. Debnam, Jewell C. “Mary Moultrie, Naomi White, and the Women of the Charleston Hos-pital Workers’ Strike of 1969.” Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and So-ciety 18:1 (2016): 59-79. Dinces, Sean. “‘Nothing but Net Profit’: Property Taxes, Public Dollars, and Corporate Philan-thropy at Chicago's United Cen-ter.” Radical History Review 125 (2016): 13-34. Dorman, Jacob S. “Dreams De-fended and Deferred: The Brooklyn Schools Crisis of 1968 and Black Power’s Influ-ence on Rabbi Meir Kahane.” American Jewish History 100:3 (2016): 411-37. Fernández, Delia. “Rethinking the Urban and Rural Divide in Latino Labor, Recreation, and Activism in West Michigan, 1940s-1970s.” Labor History 57:4 (2016): 482-503. Goldstein, Brian D. “‘The Search for New Forms’: Black Power and the Making of the Postmodern City.” Journal of American History 103:2 (2016): 375-99. Hannan, Conor. “‘We Have Our Own Struggle’: Up Against the Wall Motherfucker and the Avant-Garde of Community Action, the Lower East Side, 1968.” The Sixties: A Journal of

History, Politics, and Culture 9:1 (2016): 115-44. Howell, Ocean. “The Merchant Crusaders: Eichler Homes and Fair Housing, 1949-1974.” Pa-cific Historical Review 85:3 (2016): 379-407. Janecky, Peter R. “Opposing Forces: The ‘Open Housing’ De-bate among Citizens, the Daily Press, and the Mayor in Milwau-kee, 1967-1968.” Journal of Ur-ban History 42:5 (2016): 919-37. Kornberg, Dana. “The Structural Origins of Territorial Stigma: Water and Racial Politics in Metropolitan Detroit, 1950s-2010s.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 40:2 (2016): 263-83. Littlejohn, Jeffry L. and Charles H. Ford. “Booker T. Washington High School: History, Identity, and Educational Equity in Nor-folk, Virginia.” Virginia Maga-zine of History and Biography 124:2 (2016): 134-62. Lowery, Bryce C. “Planning for Private Consumption and Col-lective Beauty: Regulating Out-door Advertising in Los Ange-les, 1881-2014.” Journal of Planning History 15:3 (2016): 191-209. Mallios, Seth and Breana Camp-bell. “On the Cusp of an Ameri-can Civil Rights Revolution: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Final Visit and Address to San Diego in 1964.” Journal of San Diego History 61:2 (2015): 375-410.

Matthews, Glenna. “Toward the Rebirth of Downtown San Jose: Postwar Sprawl and Redevelop-ment in a Silicon Valley City.” Pacific Historical Review 85:3 (2016): 354-78. Moon, Krystyn. “The Alexan-dria YWCA, Race, and Urban (and Ethnic) Revival: The Scot-tish Christmas Walk, 1960s-1970s.” Journal of American Ethnic History 35:4 (2016): 59-92. Moten, Crystal M. “‘Fighting Their Own Economic Battles’: Saint Charles Lockett, Ethnic Enterprises, and the Challenges of Black Capitalism in 1970s Milwaukee.” Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Cul-ture, and Society 18:1 (2016): 106-25. Neuman, Nichole. “Images of Germanness and L.A.’s Mid Twentieth Century German-Speaking Community.” Jewish Culture and History 17:1-2 (2016): 152-68 Owen, Lance. “How the Mall Made Walnut Creek: Retail Planning Dynamics in a Cali-fornia Suburb, 1950-2015.” Journal of Planning History 15:4 (2016): 290-313. (Continued on next page)



Rocksborough-Smith, Ian. “‘I Had Gone in There Thinking I Was Going to Be a Cultural Worker’: Richard Durham, Os-car Brown, Jr. and the United Packinghouse Workers Associa-tion in Chicago.” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 109:3 (2016): 252-99. Sammartino, Annemarie. “Mass Housing, Late Modernism, and the Forging of Community in New York City and East Berlin, 1965-1989.” American Histori-cal Review 121:2 (2016): 492-521. Schmitt, Brooke Johnson. “Tourmaline Canyon: Surfers vs. Homeowners during the 1960s.” Journal of San Diego History 62:3-4 (2016): 273-302. Shanabruch, Charles. “Moral Imperatives and Political Reali-ties: Edward Marciniak and the Fight to End Chicago's Dual Housing Market.” Journal of the Illinois State Historical So-ciety 109:1 (2016): 71-101. Sperb, Jason. “The End of De-tropia: Fordist Nostalgia and the Ambivalence of Poetic Ruins in Visions of Detroit.” Journal of American Culture 39:2 (2016): 212-27. Steffes, Tracy L. “Managing School Integration and White Flight: The Debate over Chica-go’s Future in the 1960s.” Jour-nal of Urban History 42:4 (2016): 709-32.



Toloudis, Nicholas. “Teachers Unions Conflict in New York City, 1935-1960.” Labor History 56:5 (2015): 566-86. Verbrugge, Martha H. and Drew Yingling. “The Politics of Play: The Struggle over Racial Segre-gation and Public Recreation in Washington, D.C., 1945-1950.” Washington History 27:2 (2015): 56-69. Vitale, Patrick. “Cradle of the Creative Class: Reinventing the Figure of the Scientist in Cold War Pittsburgh.” Annals of the Association of American Geog-raphers 106:6 (2016): 1378-96. Weinzimmer, David. “The San Diego Trolley: The Little Light Rail That Could.” Journal of Planning History 15:3 (2016): 246-65. White, George, Jr., “The Color of Money: African Americans, Economic Development, and Identity in Kentucky.” Register of the Kentucky Historical Socie-ty 114:2 (2016): 161-87. Whittemore, Andrew H. and Mi-chael J. Smart. “Mapping Gay and Lesbian Neighborhoods Us-ing Home Advertisements: Change and Continuity in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metropolitan Statistical Area Over Three Dec-ades.” Environment and Plan-ning A 48:1 (2016): 192-210.

A big thank you to

everyone who

made this season’s

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ble, especially Tim

Neary!

Yamashita, Wendi. “The Coloni-al and the Carceral: Building Re-lationships Between Japanese Americans and Indigenous Groups in the Owens Valley.” Amerasia Journal 42:1 (2016): 121-38.

~ Todd M. Michney, U.S. Articles Bibliographer, is Visiting Assistant Professor in the School of History and Soci-ology at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he teaches courses in 20th century United States history and is a research associate at the Center for Urban Innovation. His book, Surrogate Suburbs: Black Upward Mobility and Neighborhood Change in Cleveland, 1900-1980 (University of North Carolina Press), is due out in March 2017 .

Ade, George. The Old-Time Sa-loon: Not Wet – Not Dry, Just History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Baics, Gregory. Feeding Go-tham: The Political Economy and Geography of Food in New York, 1790-1860. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. (Continued on next page)

U.S. BOOKS

Boustan, Leah Platt. Competi-tion in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cit-ies and Labor Markets. Prince-ton: Princeton University Press, 2016. Brown, Adrienne R.; Valerie Smith; and Kim Lane Scheppe-le, eds. Race and Real Estate. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Burns, Peter F. and Matthew O. Thomas. Reforming New Orle-ans: The Contentious Politics of Change in the Big Easy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2016. Cline, David P. From Reconcili-ation to Revolution: How the Student Interracial Ministry Took Up the Cause of Civil Rights. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016. Cowan, Aaron. A Nice Place to Visit: Tourism and Urban Revi-talization in the Postwar Rust-belt. Philadelphia: Temple Uni-versity, 2016. deLeon, Cedric. The Origins of Right to Work: Antilabor De-mocracy in Nineteenth-Century Chicago. Ithaca: Cornell Uni-versity Press, 2016. Deverell, William and Tom Sit-ton. Water and Los Angeles: A Tale of Three Rivers, 1900-1941. Oakland: University of California Press, 2016. Dietrich-Ward, Allen. Beyond Rust: Metropolitan Pittsburgh and the Fate of Industrial Amer-ica. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 2016.



Duneier, Mitchell. Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, The Histo-ry of an Idea. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2016. Erby, Kelly. Restaurant Repub-lic: The Rise of Public Dining in Boston. Minneapolis, MN: Uni-versity of Minnesota Press, 2016. Falck, Zachary J.S. Weeds: An Environmental History of Metro-politan America. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016. Flamm, Michael W. In the Heat of the Summer: The New York Riots of 1964 and the War on Crime. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 2016. Gilbert, Kenyatta R. A Pursued Justice: Black Preaching from the Great Migration to Civil Rights. Baylor, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2016. Golub, Aaron. Bicycle Justice and Urban Transformation: Bik-ing for All? New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2016. Griffiths, Alison. Carceral Fan-tasies: Cinema and Prison in Early Twentieth-Century Ameri-ca. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2016. Harold, Claudrena. New Negro Politics in the Jim Crow South. Athens, GA: University of Geor-gia Press, 2016. Hodges, Adam J. World War I and Urban Order: The Local Class Politics of National Mobi-

lization. New York, NY: Pal-grave Macmillan, 2016. Hood, Clifton. In Pursuit of Privilege: A History of New York City’s Upper Class and the Mak-ing of a Metropolis. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2016. Iarocci, Louisa. The Urban De-partment Store in America, 1850-1930. New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016. Issel, Bill. Baptized on the Fourth of July: A Catholic Boy-hood in San Francisco, 1944-1951. (Berkeley: Minuteman Press, 2016). Johnson, Rashauna. Slavery’s Metropolis: Unfree Labor in New Orleans During the Age of Revolutions. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Jonnes, Jill. Urban Forests: A Natural History of Trees in the American Cityscape. Viking, 2016. Kanigel, Robert. Eyes on the Street: The Life of Jane Jacobs. New York: Knopf, 2016. Kinney, Rebecca. Beautiful Wasteland: The Rise of Detroit as America’s Postindustrial Frontier. Minneapolis: Universi-ty of Minnesota Press, 2016. (Continued on next page)

Note:

The Canada

bibliography will

hopefully return in a

future newsletter.

Larsen, Kristin E. Community Architect: The Life and Vision of Clarence S. Stein. Ithaca: Cornell University, 2016. Leyda, Julia. American Mobili-ties: Geographies of Class, Race, and Gender in US Cul-ture. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2016. Maly, Michael T. and Heather M. Dalmage. Vanishing Eden: White Construction of Memory, Meaning, and Identity in a Ra-cially Changing City. Philadel-phia: Temple University Press, 2016. Milroy, Elizabeth. The Grid and The River: Philadelphia’s Green Places, 1682-1876. Uni-versity Park, PA: The Pennsyl-vania State University Press, 2016. Naison, Mark and Bob Gumbs. Before the Fires: An Oral His-tory of African American Life in the Bronx From the 1930s to the 1960s. Bronx, NY: Fordham University Press, 2016. Neary, Timothy B. Crossing Parish Boundaries: Race, Sports, and Catholic Youth in Chicago, 1914-1954. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Nelson, R.J. Dirty Waters: Con-fessions of Chicago’s Last Har-bor Boss. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Nicolaides, Becky M. and An-drew Wiese. The Suburb Read-er. New York: Routledge, Tay-lor, & Francis Group, 2016.



Plunz, Richard. A History of Housing in New York City. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2016. (Revised edition.) Rabig, Julia. The Fixers: Devo-lution, Development, and Civil Society in Newark, 1960-1990. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Roberts, Kyle. Evangelical Go-tham: Religion and the Making of New York City, 1783-1860. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Sattler, Julia. Urban Transfor-mations in the U.S.A.: Spaces, Communities, Representations. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2016. Scribner, Campbell F. The Fight for Local Control: Schools, Sub-urbs, and American Democracy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2016. Seligman, Amanda I. Chicago’s Block Clubs: How Neighbor-hoods Shape the City. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016.

Smith, Andrea L. and Anna Ei-senstein. Rebuilding Shattered Worlds: Creating Community by Voicing the Past. Lincoln: Uni-versity of Nebraska Press, 2016. Spirou, Costas and Dennis R. Judd. Building the City of Spec-tacle: Mayor Richard M. Daley and the Remaking of Chicago. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2016. Starecheski, Amy. Ours to Lose: When Squatters Became Home-owners in New York City. Chica-go: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Teaford, Jon C. The Twentieth-Century American City: Prob-lem, Promise, and Reality. Balti-more: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. Vergara, Camilo José. Detroit is No Dry Bones: The Eternal City of the Industrial Age. Ann Ar-bor: University of Michigan Press, 2016. Weaver, Timothy P.R. Blazing the Neoliberal Trail: Urban Po-litical Development in the Unit-ed States and the United King-dom. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 2016. Webster, Nancy and David Shirley. A History of Brooklyn Bridge Park: How a Community Reclaimed and Transformed New York City’s Waterfront. New York, NY: Columbia Uni-versity Press, 2016. (Continued on next page)

Williams, Charles Louis; Kida-da E. Williams; and Keisha N. Blain, eds. Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism, and Racial Violence. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2016. Wolfinger, James. Running the Rails: Capital and Labor in the Philadelphia Transit Industry. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2016. Wojcik, Pamela Robertson. Fantasies of Neglect: Imagining the Urban Child in American Film and Fiction. New Bruns-wick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2016.

~ Katie Schank, UHA U.S. Books bibliographer, is a Visiting Fellow at Emory Uni-versity's Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Differ-ence. Her research interests are focused on the built environ-ment, race, and visual culture. She is currently working on a manuscript about the central role that images and representa-tions played in the history of Atlanta public housing.



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