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Urban and Suburban

 

Alderman, Derek H., “The Politics of Saving the King’s Court: Why We Should Take Elvis Fans Seriously,” Southern Quarterly, 46 (Fall 2008), 46–77.

Beasley, Betsy A., “Fighting for a Radical City: Student Protesters and the Politics of Space in 1960s and 1970s Downtown Manhattan,” Urban History Review/Revue d’histoire urbaine (Toronto), 37 (March 2009), 6–17.

Cande, Kathleen H., “Rediscovering Davidsonville, Arkansas’s First County Seat Town, 1815–1830,” Arkansas Historical Quarterly, 67 (Winter 2008), 342–58.

Ervin, Jordan, “San Diego’s Urban Trophy: Horton Plaza Redevelopment Project,” Southern California Quarterly, 90 (Winter 2008–2009), 419–53.

Kushner, James A., “Urban Neighborhood Regeneration and the Phases of Community Evolution after World War II in the United States,” Indiana Law Review, 41 (no. 3, 2008), 575–604.

Mullgardt, Brian, “The Whole Neighborhood Is Watching: Community Influence on the Events Surrounding the 1968 Democratic National Convention,” Journal of Illinois History, 11 (Winter 2008), 238–60.

Powell, John A., “Reflections on the Past, Looking to the Future: The Fair Housing Act at 40,” Indiana Law Review, 41 (no. 3, 2008), 605–28.

Price, Jay M., “Jewish Community in Wichita, 1920–1970: Same Wagon, New Horses,” Great Plains Quarterly, 28 (Fall 2008), 293–320.

Sweet, Julie Anne, “A Misguided Mistake: The Trustees’ Public Garden in Savannah, Georgia,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 93 (Spring 2009), 1–29.

Terranova, Charissa, “Ultramodern Underground Dallas: Vincent Ponte’s Pedestrian-Way as a Systematic Solution to the Declining Downtown,” Urban History Review/Revue d’histoire urbaine (Toronto), 37 (March 2009), 18–29.

Turner, Margery Austin, “Limits on Housing and Neighborhood Choice: Discrimination and Segregation in U.S. Housing Markets,” Indiana Law Review, 41 (no. 3, 2008), 797–816.

Wunsch, Aaron, “Emporia of Eternity: ‘Rural’ Cemeteries and Urban Goods in Antebellum Philadelphia,” Nineteenth Century, 28 (Fall 2008), 14–23.

 

Franz, Gregor Andreas Gottfried, “Essays in Health and Urban Economics” (University of California, Irvine, 2008). Order No. DA3319224.

Krasovic, Mark, “The Struggle for Newark: Plotting Urban Crisis in the Great Society” (Yale University, 2008). Order No. DA3317266.

McCabe, Matthew P., “‘A More Beautiful Future’: Class, Race, and City Planning in Glasgow and Chicago, 1890–1968” (Central Michigan University, 2008). Order No. DA3326004.

Tremmel, Red Vaughan, “Sin City upon a Hill: Play, Urban Conflict, and the Rise of Commercial Liberality” (University of Chicago, 2008). Order No. DA3322651.

Uhlman, James Todd, “Geographies of Desire: Bayard Taylor and the Romance of Travel in Bourgeois American Culture, 1820–1880” (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2007). Order No. DA3319696.

 

Miles, Lisa A., Resurrecting Allegheny City: The Land, Structures, and People of Pittsburgh’s North Side. (Pittsburgh: Miles, 2007. xxviii, 275 pp. Paper, $16.00, isbn 978-0-9798236-0-2.)

Morgan, Keith N., ed., Buildings of Massachusetts: Metropolitan Boston. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009. xx, 665 pp. $75.00, isbn 978-0-8139-2709-1.)

Nevius, Michelle, and James Nevious, Inside the Apple: A Streetwise History of New York City. (New York: Free Press, 2009. xviii, 364 pp. Paper, $16.95, isbn 978-1-4165-8997-6.)

Sanderson, Eric W., Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City. (New York: Abrams, 2009. 352 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-0-8109-9633-5.) Heavily illustrated.

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