Journal of Urban History
2008 – 34:2
Articles
Why Don't American Cities Burn Very
Often?
Michael B. Katz
185-208
Introduction: Politics and the American
City, 1940–1990
Wendell E. Pritchett and Mark H. Rose
209-220
The City Quietly Remade: National
Programs and Local Agendas in the
Movement to Clear the Slums, 1942–
1952
Joseph Heathcott
221-242
Shades of Black and Green: The Making
of Racial and Environmental Liberalism
in Nelson Rockefeller's New York
Peter Siskind
243-265
Which Urban Crisis?: Regionalism,
Race, and Urban Policy, 1960—1974
Wendell E. Pritchett
266-286
The Defeat of the Golden Gate
Authority: A Special District, a Council
of Governments, and the Fate of
Regional Planning in the San Francisco
Bay Area
Louise Nelson Dyble
287-308
From Political Outsider To Power
Broker in Two "Great American Cities":
Jane Jacobs and the Fall of the Urban
Renewal Order in New York and
Toronto
Christopher Klemek
309-332
Journal of Urban History
2008 – 34:3
Articles
Domenic Vitiello
Machine Building and City Building:
Urban Planning and Industrial
Restructuring in Philadelphia, 18941928
399-434
Robert Cassanello
Avoiding "Jim Crow": Negotiating
Separate and Equal on Florida's
Railroads and Streetcars and the
Progressive Era Origins of the Modern
Civil Rights Movement
435-457
Jesús Mirás Araujo
The Commercial Sector in an EarlyTwentieth Century Spanish City, La
Coruña 1914-1935
458-483
Kathy Arthurson
Australian Public Housing and the
Diverse Histories of Social Mix
484-501
Stephanie Ryberg
Review Essay: Complex Histories and
Local Identities: JOHN J. CZAPLICKA
AND BLAIR A. RUBLE, eds.,
Composing Urban History and the
Constitution of Civic Identities.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University
Press, 2003
MARTIN V. MELOSI AND PHILIP
SCARPINO, eds., Public History and the
Environment. Malabar, FL: Krieger,
2004
MAX PAGE AND RANDALL
MASON, eds., Giving Preservation a
History: Histories of Historic
Preservation in the United States. New
York: Routledge, 2004
502-510
David B. Wolcott
Review Essay: At a Crossroads?
Diverging Paths in the History of Crime:
ANDREW WENDER COHEN, The
Racketeer's Progress: Chicago and the
Struggle for the Modern American
Economy, 1900-1940. Cambridge, UK:
Cambridge University Press, 2004
ERIC H. MONKKONEN, Crime,
Justice, History. Columbus: Ohio State
University Press, 2002
EDUARDO OBREGON PAGAN,
Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon: Zoot
Suits, Race and Riot in Wartime Los
Angeles. Chapel Hill: University of
North Carolina Press, 2003
511-519
John F. Bauman
Review Essay: The American
Downtown: Sagas of Race, Place, and
Space ROBERT M. FOGELSON,
Downtown: Its Rise and Fall, 18801950. New Haven: Yale University
Press, 2001
ANASTASIA LOUKAITOU-SIDERIS
and TRIDIB BANERJEE, Urban Design
Downtown: Poetics and Politics of
Form. Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1998
ALISON ISENBERG, Downtown
America: A History of the Place and the
People Who Made It. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2004
520-531
Darius Sollohub
Review Essay: The Machine in Society:
BRIAN J. CUDAHY, Rails Under the
Mighty Hudson: The Story of the
Hudson Tubes and the Pennsy Tunnels
and Manhattan Tunnels. Bronx, NY:
Fordham University Press, 2002
JANET F. DAVIDSON AND
MICHAEL S. SWEENEY, On The
Move: Transportation and the American
Story. Washington, DC: National
Geographic, 2003
CLIFTON HOOD, 722 Miles: The
Building of the Subways and How They
Transformed New York. Baltimore &
London: The Johns Hopkins University
Press, 1993, 2004
GENE SANSONE, New York Subways:
An Illustrated History of New York
City's Transit Cars. Baltimore: The
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004
532-540
Barbara Eckstein
Review Essay: Specters of the City:
STEVEN CONN AND MAX PAGE,
editors, Building the Nation: Americans
Write About Their Architecture, Their
Cities, and Their Landscape.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
Press, 2003, pp. xi, 412, index,
illustrations, $59.95 cloth, $24.95 paper.
SAMUEL DELANEY, Times Square
Red, Times Square Blue. New York:
New York University Press, 1999, pp.
xviii, 203, $19 paper. CHRISTOPHE
DEN TANDT, The Urban Sublime in
American Literary Naturalism. Urbana:
University of Illinois Press, 1998, pp.
xiv, 288, notes, bibliography, index,
$49.95 cloth, $18.95 paper. JAMES
DONALD, Imagining the Modern City.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota
Press, 1999, pp. xiii, 216, illustrations,
notes, index, $24.95 paper. MADHU
DUBEY, Signs and Cities: Black
Literary Postmodernism. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2003, pp.
ix, 284, notes, index, $19.80 paper.
JAMES R. GILES, The Naturalistic
Inner-City Novel in America:
Encounters with the Fat Man. Columbia,
SC: University of South Carolina Press,
1995, pp. ix, 204, bibliography, index,
$34.95 cloth. RICHARD LEHAN, The
City in Literature: An Intellectual and
Cultural History. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1998, pp. xvi, 330,
illustrations, tables, bibliography, index,
$45 cloth, $17.95 paper. DAVID L.
ULIN, editor, Writing Los Angeles: A
Literary Anthology. New York: The
Library of America, 2002, pp. xix, 880,
illustrations, $40.00 cloth
541-551
Bradshaw Hovey
Review Essay: In Search of Urban
Livability: CARL ABBOTT, Greater
Portland: Urban Life and Landscape in
the Pacific Northwest. Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001,
pp. xi, 242, illustrations, maps, notes,
index, $19.95 paper, $34.95 cloth.
JAMES LYONS, Selling Seattle:
Representing Contemporary Urban
America. London: Wallflower Press,
2004, pp. vii, 226, illustrations, notes,
index, bibliography, $24.50 hardback. T.
M. SELL, Wings of Power: Boeing and
the Politics of Growth in the Northwest.
Seattle: University of Washington Press,
2001, pp. xxx, 162, notes, bibliography,
index, cloth
552-561
Michael Desmond
Review Essay: Buildings in the Making
of Cities: Three Chicago Case Studies
RICHARD LONGSTRETH, ed., The
Charnley House: Louis Sullivan, Frank
Lloyd Wright, and the Making of
Chicago's Gold Coast. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2004, pp.
xxi, 249, illustrations, notes, index,
$55.00 hardback. JOSEPH M. SIRY,
The Chicago Auditorium Building:
Adler and Sullivan's Architecture and
the City. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 2002, pp. xv, 550, illustrations,
notes, selected bibliography, index,
$55.00 cloth. KATHERINE
SOLOMONSON, The Chicago Tribune
Tower Competition: Skyscraper Design
and Cultural Change in the 1920s. New
York: Cambridge University Press,
2001, pp. xiii, 370, illustrations,
bibliography, index, $80.00 cloth
[University of Chicago Press, 2003,
$27.00 paper]
562-568
Journal of Urban History
2008 – 34:4
Articles
Redefining the Axis of Beijing:
Revolution and Nostalgia in the
Planning of the PRC Capital
Shuishan Yu
571-608
Civil Rights Versus "Civic Progress":
The St. Louis NAACP and the City
Charter Fight, 1956—1957
Clarence Lang
609-638
Combating NEED: Urban Conflict and
the Transformations of the War on
Poverty and the African American
Freedom Struggle in Rocky Mount,
North Carolina
Lisa Gayle Hazirjian
639-664
Writing Watts: Budd Schulberg, Black
Poetry, and the Cultural War on Poverty
Daniel Widener
665-687
Review Essay: Down but Not Out: The
Politics of the East End Poor and Those
Who Investigated Their Lives. MARC
BRODIE, The Politics of the Poor: The
East End of London 1885-1914. Oxford,
UK: Clarendon Press, 2004, pp. xii +
240, illustrations, notes, index, £55
cloth. SETH KOVEN, Slumming:
Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian
London. Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press, 2004, pp. xvii + 399,
illustrations, notes, index, £18.95 cloth
Caroline Bressey
688-694
Review Essay: Producing the North
American Metropolitan Landscape:
ROBERT D. BULLARD, GLENN S.
JOHNSON, AND ANGEL O. TORRES,
eds., Sprawl City: Race, Politics, and
Planning in Atlanta. Washington, DC:
Island Press, 2000, pp. xiii, 236, tables,
notes, index, $30.00 paper.
CATHERINE GUDIS, Buyways:
Billboards, Automobiles, and the
American Landscape. New York:
Routledge, 2004, pp. viii, 333,
illustrations, bibliography, notes, index,
$22.00 paper. OWEN D. GUTFREUND,
Twentieth-Century Sprawl: Highways
and the Reshaping of the American
Landscape. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2004, pp. xv, 297,
illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes,
index, $45.00 cloth, $19.95 paper.
RICHARD HARRIS, Creeping
Conformity: How Canada Became
Suburban, 1900-1960. Toronto:
University of Toronto Press, 2004, pp. x,
204, illustrations, figures, maps,
bibliography, notes, index, $45.00 cloth,
$19.95 paper. AMY MARIA KENYON,
Dreaming S uburbia: Detroit and the
Production of Postwar Space and
Culture. Detroit: Wayne State University
Press, 2004, pp. vii, 214, bibliography,
notes, index, $45.00 cloth, $19.95 paper.
DOUGLAS KNERR, Suburban Steel:
The Magnificent Failure of the Lustron
Corporation, 1945-1951. Columbus:
Ohio State University Press, 2004, pp. x,
248, illustrations, notes, index, $44.45
cloth. ROBERT LEWIS, ed.,
Manufacturing Suburbs: Building Work
and Home on the Metropolitan Fringe.
Philadelphia: Temple University Press,
2004, pp. x, 204, illustrations, tables,
maps, notes, index, $68.50 cloth, $24.95
paper
Amanda I. Seligman
695-703
Review Essay: Will the Poor Be With
Us Always?: MARK ROBERT RANK,
One Nation Underprivileged: Why
American Poverty Affects Us All. New
York: Oxford University Press, 2004,
pp. v, 356, preface, appendices, notes,
bibliography, index. $29.95 cloth,
$16.95 paper. JEFFREY D. SACHS,
End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities
for Our Time. New York: Penguin Press,
2005, pp. vii, 397, acknowledgments,
foreword by Bono, introduction, works
cited, further reading, notes, index,
credits. $27.95 cloth, $16.00 paper.
DAVID K. SHIPLER, The Working
Poor: Invisible in America. New York:
Alfred A. Knopf, 2004, pp. vii, 319,
preface, introduction, notes, index.
$25.00 cloth, $14.00 paper. STEPHEN
C. SMITH, Ending Global Poverty: A
Guide to What Works. New York:
Palgrave MacMillan, 2005, pp. ix, 260,
preface and acknowledgments,
introduction, notes and references,
index. $26.95 cloth
Terry D. Goddard
704-711
Review Essay: The Business of Business
in The Middle Ages: Bruges and
Montpellier. JAMES M. MURRAY,
Bruges, Cradle of Capitalism, 12801390. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge
University Press, 2005, pp. xi, 409,
illustrations, maps, tables, notes,
bibliography, index, $100.00 cloth.
KATHRYN L. REYERSON, The Art of
the Deal: Intermediaries of Trade in
Medieval Montpellier. The Medieval
Mediterranean, Vol. 37. Leiden, the
Netherlands: Brill, 2002, pp. 257, maps,
charts, tables, notes, bibliography, index,
$128.00 cloth
Marci Sortor
712-717
Review Essay: Violence, Memory, and
Politics: Recent Work on Memorials in
Berlin and Beyond. KAREN E. TILL,
The New Berlin: Memory, Politics,
Place. Minneapolis: University of
Minnesota Press, 2005, pp. xii, 279,
illustrations, maps, notes, index, $25
paper. DANIEL J. WALKOWITZ AND
LISA MAYA KNAUER, eds., Memory
and the Impact of Political
Transformation in Public Space.
Durham, NC: Duke University Press,
2004, pp. viii, 326, illustrations, notes,
bibliography, discography, index, $23.95
paper
Jennifer A. Jordan
718-723
Review Essay: Collaboration and
Conflict: Immigrant Life in Urban
America. JACK GLAZIER, Dispersing
the Ghetto: The Relocation of Jewish
Immigrants across America. Ithaca, NY:
Cornell University Press, 1998, pp. x +
245, appendix, notes, index, $39.95
cloth. DAVID C. HAMMACK, DIANE
L. GRABOWSKI, AND JOHN J.
GRABOWSKI, eds. Identity, Conflict,
and Cooperation: Central Europeans in
Cleveland, 1850-1930. Cleveland, OH:
Western Reserve Historical Society,
2002, pp. ix + 364, illustrations, tables,
notes, index, contributors, $15.95 paper.
RUSSELL A. KAZAL, Becoming Old
Stock: The Paradox of GermanAmerican Identity. Princeton, NJ:
Princeton University Press, 2004, pp.
xvii + 383, illustrations, maps, tables,
index, notes, $35.00 cloth. ELI
LEDERHENDLER, New York Jews and
the Decline of Urban Ethnicity, 19501970. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse
University Press, 2001, pp. xix + 275,
illustrations, tables, notes, works cited,
index, $29.95 cloth
Diane C. Vecchio
724-730
Review Essay: Latinos as Protagonists in
American Urban History and Planning
Practice: ARLENE DÁVILA, Barrio
Dreams: Puerto Ricans, Latinos, and the
Neoliberal City. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 2004, pp. xi, 260,
illustrations, notes, bibliography, index,
$19.95 paperback. MARIO LUIS
SMALL, Villa Victoria: The
Transformation of Social Capital in a
Boston Barrio. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 2004, pp. xx, 226,
footnotes, bibliography, index, tables,
$50 cloth, $20 paper. ANDREW
GRANT WOOD, ed. On the Border:
Society and Culture between the United
States and Mexico. Lanham, MD:
Rowman & Littlefield, 2004, pp. xi, 303,
notes, index, illustrations, $70.00 cloth,
$24.95 paper
Zaire Zenit Dinzey-Flores
731-744
Journal of Urban History
2008 – 34:5
Articles
Elizabeth Fraterrigo
The Answer to Suburbia: Playboy's
Urban Lifestyle
747-774
John R. Griffiths
Civic Communication in Britain: A
Study of the Municipal Journal c. 18931910
775-794
Joan Ganau
Reinventing Memories: The Origin
and Development of Barcelona's Barri
Gòtic, 1880-1950
795-832
Laurent Vidal, Grégory Beriet, and
Christine Haynes
John Merriman: "Cities and Politics in
Nineteenth Century France"
833-844
Gabor Vermes
Review Essay: Budapest, Past and
Present: GABOR GYANI, Identity and
the Urban Experience: Fin-de-Siecle
Budapest. Translated by Thomas J.
DeKornfeld. Boulder, Colorado: Social
Science Monographs; Wayne, NJ:
Center for Hungarian Studies and
Publications; Budapest: Institute of
Habsburg History, 2004, ix, pp. 271,
notes, index, $40.00 cloth. JUDIT
BODNAR, Fin de Millenaire Budapest:
Metamorphoses of Urban Life.
Minneapolis and London: University of
Minnesota Press, 2001, vii, pp. 222,
notes, bibliography, index, $35.00 cloth
845-849
John R. Breihan
Review Essay: Airport History:
JANET R. DALY BEDNAREK,
America's Airports: Airfield
Development, 1918-1947. College
Station, TX: Texas A & M University
Press, 2001, pp. viii, 226, index,
bibliography, notes, illustrations, $39.95
cloth. DAVID T. COURTWRIGHT,
Sky as Frontier: Adventure, Aviation,
and Empire. College Station, TX: Texas
A & M University Press, 2005, x, 284,
illustrations, notes, references, index,
$60 cloth, $24.95 paper
850-854
Bethany L. Rogers
Review Essay: INTEGRATING
EDUCATION HISTORY AND
URBAN HISTORY The Politics of
Schools and Cities: JACK
DOUGHERTY, More Than One
Struggle: The Evolution of Black School
Reform in Milwaukee. Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press,
2004, pp. xiii, 253, illustrations, maps,
charts, table, notes, bibliography, index,
$49.94 cloth, $19.95 paper. ADAM R.
NELSON, The Elusive Ideal: Equal
Educational Opportunity and the Federal
Role in Boston's Public Schools, 19501985. Chicago and London: University
of Chicago Press, 2005, xvii, 332, notes,
index, $70.00 cloth, $27.50 paper.
DORIS HINSON PIEROTH, Seattle's
Women Teachers of the Interwar Years:
Shapers of a Livable City. Seattle:
University of Washington Press, 2004,
ix, 283, illustrations, bibliography, notes,
index, $30.00 cloth. KATE
ROUSMANIERE, Citizen Teacher: The
Life and Leadership of Margaret Haley.
Albany: State University of New York
Press, 2005, xi. 271, illustrations, notes,
bibliographic essay, bibliography, index,
$81.50 cloth, $25.95 paper
855-869
Kimberly Katz
Review Essay: MODERNITY AND
THE MIDDLE EAST Cities and Their
Citizens: JENS HANSSEN, Fin De
Siècle Beirut: The Making of an
Ottoman Provincial Capital. Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 2005, pp. vi, 307,
illustrations, graph, tables, bibliography,
index, $95.00 cloth. KEITH DAVID
WATENPAUGH, Being Modern in the
Middle East : Revolution, Nationalism,
Colonialism, and the Arab Middle Class.
Princeton: Princeton University Press,
2006, pp. vii, 325, illustrations, tables,
maps, $35.00 cloth. CHRISTA
SALAMANDRA, A New Old
Damascus: Authenticity and Distinction
in Urban Syria. Bloomington, IN:
Indiana University Press, 2004, pp. ix,
199, illustrations, map, bibliography,
index, $49.95 cloth, $21.95 paper
870-878
Sivananda Mantri
Review Essay: Shaping Southern
Urban Development and Social
Relations: CHARLES E. CONNERLY,
"The Most Segregated City in America":
City Planning and Civil Rights in
Birmingham, 1920-1980. Charlottesville
and London: University of Virginia
Press, 2005, xvi, 360, illustrations, notes,
index, $45.00 cloth. CHRISTINA
GREENE, Our Separate Ways: Women
and Black Freedom Movement in
Durham, North Carolina. Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press,
2005, xviii, 366, illustration, notes,
bibliography, index, $59.95 cloth,
$19.95 paper. DAVID FORT
GODSHALK, Veiled Visions: The 1906
Atlanta Race Riot and the Reshaping of
American Race Relations. Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press,
2005, xvi, 365, illustrations, notes,
bibliography, index, $59.95 cloth,
$22.50 paper. CHRISTOPHER
MACGREGOR SCRIBNER, Renewing
Birmingham:Federal Funding and the
Promise of Change 1929-1979. Athens:
University of Georgia Press, 2002, pp.
xii, 188, notes, bibliography, index,
$40.00 cloth
879-888
Julian C. Chambliss
Review Essay: NEW IN OUR EYES
Race, Class, and Progress in New South
Atlanta: ANDY AMBROSE, Atlanta:
An Illustrated History. Foreword by
John Lewis. Athens, GA: Hill Street,
2003, illustrations, maps, resources and
suggested reading, index, $18.95 paper.
KAREN FERGUSON, Black Politics in
New Deal Atlanta. Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press,
2002, pp. xvi, 366, illustrations, maps,
appendix, tables, notes, works cited,
index, $49.95 cloth, $19.95 paper.
GREGORY MIXON, The Atlanta Riot:
Race, Class, and Violence in a New
South City. Gainesville, FL: University
Press of Florida, 2005, xv, 197, maps,
index, notes, bibliography, $59.95 cloth
889-900
Luther Adams
Review Essay: EXPECTING THE
UNEXPECTED Black-Jewish History in
Twentieth-Century America: V. P.
FRANKLIN, NANCY L. GRANT,
HAROLD M. KLETNICK, AND
GENNA RAE MCNEIL, eds., African
Americans and Jews in the Twentieth
Century. Columbia: University of
Missouri Press, 1999, vii, pp. 366,
footnotes, index, $34.95. ERIC J.
SUNDQUIST, Strangers in the Land:
Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America.
Cambridge and London: The Belknap
Press of Harvard University Press, 2005,
pp. 645, notes, $35.00 paper
901-914
Journal of Urban History
2008 – 34:6
Articles
Charissa N. Terranova
Marcel Poëte's Bergsonian Urbanism:
Vitalism, Time, and the City
919-943
Brian J. Miller
The Struggle Over Redevelopment At
Cabrini-Green, 1989-2004
944-960
Ocean Howell
Play Pays: Urban Land Politics and
Playgrounds in the United States, 19001930
961-994
Jack Schneider
Escape From Los Angeles: White
Flight from Los Angeles and Its Schools,
1960-1980
995-1012
Kristin Stapleton
Review Essay: Beijing, Olympic City:
RICHARD BELSKY, Localities at the
Center: Native Place, Space, and Power
in Late Imperial Beijing. Cambridge,
MA: Harvard University Asia Center,
2005, pp. xii, 318, maps, illustrations,
bibliography, index, $45.00 cloth.
MADELEINE YUE DONG, Republican
Beijing: The City and its Histories.
Berkeley: University of California Press,
2003, pp. xxiii, 380, maps, illustrations,
notes, bibliography, index, $55.00 cloth.
LILLIAN M. LI, ALISON J. DRAYNOVEY, AND HAILI KONG, Beijing:
From Imperial City to Olympic City.
New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007,
pp. xiv, 321, maps, illustrations, notes,
bibliography, index, $27.95 cloth. WU
HUNG, Remaking Beijing: Tiananmen
Square and the Creation of a Political
Space. Chicago: The University of
Chicago Press, 2005, pp. 272, maps,
illustrations, references, bibliography,
index, $80.00 cloth, $35.00 paper. LI
ZHANG, Strangers in the City:
Reconfigurations of Space, Power, and
Social Networks within China's Floating
Population. Stanford: Stanford
University Press, 2001, pp. xiv, 286,
maps, illustrations, glossary,
bibliography, index, $25.95 paper
1013-1020
Helen Meller
Review Essay: LEARNING FROM
THE PAST Planning History at the
Crossroads?: EBENEZER HOWARD,
Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Real
Reform. Original edition with
commentary by Peter Hall, Dennis
Hardy, and Colin Ward. London:
Routledge, 2003, pp. xii, 220,
illustrations, bibliography, index, £66.00
cloth. STEPHEN V. WARD, Planning
and Urban Change. Second edition.
London: Sage, 2004, pp. viii, 312,
illustrations, bibliography, index, £70.00
cloth, £21.99 paper. MARK CLAPSON,
A Social History of Milton Keynes:
Middle England/Edge City. London:
Frank Cass, 2004, pp. xxi, 202,
illustrations, notes, bibliography, index,
£60.00 cloth, £18.50 paper. MICHAEL
JAMES MILLER, The Representation
of Place: Urban Planning and Protest in
France and Great Britain, 1950—1980.
Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2003, pp. xvi,
347, illustrations, bibliography, index,
£47.50 cloth
1021-1028
David M. Wrobel
Review Essay: PARADISE
PONDERED Urban California, 1850—
2000: NORRIS HUNDLEY, JR., The
Great Thirst: Californians & Water: A
History. Revised Edition. Berkeley, CA:
University of California Press, 2001, pp.
xxiii, 799, photographs, maps,
bibliography, index, $65.00 cloth,
$24.95 paper. DAVID IGLER, Industrial
Cowboys: Miller & Lux and the
Transformation of the Far West, 1850—
1920. Berkeley, CA: University of
California Press, 2001, pp. 281,
illustrations, index, $37.50 cloth. TOM
SITTON AND WILLIAM DEVERELL,
eds., Metropolis in the Making: Los
Angeles in the 1920s. Berkeley, CA:
University of California Press, 2001, pp.
xii, 371, illustrations, maps,
bibliography, index, $55.00 cloth,
$22.50 paper. WILLIAM FULTON, The
Reluctant Metropolis: The Politics of
Urban Growth in Los Angeles.
Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2001, pp. viii, 407,
illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography,
index, $18.95 paper
1029-1043
Tridib Banerjee
Review Essay: URBAN OUTCOMES
OF GLOBALIZATION Theory,
Research, and Practice: JOSEF
GUGLER, ed., World Cities Beyond the
West: Globalization, Development and
Inequality. New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2004, pp. xv, 396,
maps, tables, references, index, $75
cloth, $34.99 paper. MICKEY LAURIA,
ed., Reconstructing Urban Regime
Theory: Regulating Urban Politics in a
Global Economy. Thousand Oaks, CA:
Sage Publications, 1996, pp. ix, 278,
notes, bibliography, index, $52.00 cloth,
$23.95 paper. H. V. SAVTICH AND
PAUL KANTOR, Cities in the
International Marketplace: The Political
Economy of Urban Development in
North America and Western Europe.
Princeton: Princeton University Press,
2002, xxii, 445, illustrations, tables,
appendix, notes, bibliography, index,
$34.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. ROGER
SIMMONDS AND GARY HACK,
Global City Regions: Their Emerging
Forms. New York: Taylor and Francis
Publishing, Inc., 2001, pp. viii, 286,
illustrations, maps, $99.00 cloth.
WILLIAM SITES, Remaking New
York: Primitive Globalization and the
Politics of Urban Community.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota
Press, 2003, xxvi, 260, illustrations,
notes, bibliography, index, $59.95 cloth,
$19.95 paper
1044-1054
Erica L. Ball
Review Essay: CROSSING
BOUNDARIES AND CREATING
COMMUNITY African American
Identity and Politics in Antebellum New
York and Washington D.C: LESLIE M.
HARRIS, In the Shadow of Slavery:
African Americans in New York City,
1626—1863. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 2003, pp. xii, 380,
illustrations, maps notes, works
consulted, index, $47.50 cloth.
STANLEY HARROLD, Subversives:
Antislavery Community in Washington,
D.C., 1828—1865. Baton Rouge:
Louisiana State University Press, 2003,
pp. xiv, 280, illustrations, notes, essay
on sources, index, $69.95 cloth, $24.95
paper. SHANE WHITE, Stories of
Freedom in Black New York.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
Press, 2002, pp. 260, notes, index,
$27.95 cloth
1055-1063
Natalia Milanesio
Review Essay: Urban Space and
Peronism in Argentina: ROSA ABOY,
Viviendas para el pueblo. Espacio
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