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Urban and Suburban

 

Arenson, Adam, “The Double Life of St. Louis: Narratives of Origins and Maturity in Wade’s Urban Frontier,” Indiana Magazine of History, 105 (Sept. 2009), 246–61.

Barrows, Robert G., and Leigh Darbee, “The Urban Frontier in Pioneer Indiana,” Indiana Magazine of History, 105 (Sept. 2009), 262–82.

George, Tita, and Elizabeth Griffith, “Homicide in and around Public Housing: Is Public Housing a Hotbed, a Magnet, or a Generator of Violence for the Surrounding Community?,” Social Problems, 56 (Aug. 2009), 474–93.

Gilfoyle, Timothy J., “Barnum’s Brothel: P. T.’s ‘Last Great Humbug,’” Journal of the History of Sexuality, 18 (Sept. 2009), 486–513.

Goddard, Joseph, “Landscape and Ambience on the Urban Fringe: From Agricultural to Imagined Countryside,” Environment and History (Cambridge), 15 (Nov. 2009), 413–39.

Lewis, Jeremiah James, “The Challenging Years,” Bronx County Historical Society Journal, 45 (Spring–Fall 2008), 56–67.

Masui, Shituyo, “Reading The House of the Seven Gables in the Context of the Nineteenth-Century Urban Burial Reform Movement,” Japanese Journal of American Studies (Tokyo), 19 (2008), 43–62.

Minami, Shûhei, “Burukkurin kaigunzôsenjo no heisa to Nyûyôku toshirôdôsha no seikatsusekai” (The closing of the Brooklyn Navy Yard and the life and labor of workers in New York City), Hitotsubashi Shakaikagaku (Tokyo), 5 (2008), 113–40. In Japanese.

Roby, Megan, “The Push and Pull Dynamics of White Flight: A Study of the Bronx between 1950 and 1980,” Bronx County Historical Society Journal, 45 (Spring–Fall 2008), 34–55.

Stradling, David S., “Cincinnati a Queen City? Only on the Frontier,” Indiana Magazine of History, 105 (Sept. 2009), 219–31.

Vitale, Patrick, “Learning to Be Suburban: The Production of Community in Westwood Hills, Pennsylvania, 1952–1958,” Journal of Historical Geography (London), 35 (Oct. 2009), 743–68.

Yagasaki, Noritaka, “Origin of Cities and Urbanization in Nineteenth-Century Southern California: Regional Changes in the Context of Three Economic-Cultural Regions of the Americas,” Japanese Journal of American Studies (Tokyo), 19 (2008), 197–219.

 

Arenson, Adam Isaac, “City of Manifest Destiny: St. Louis and the Cultural Civil War, 1848–1877” (Yale University, 2008). Order No. DA3342552.

Basmajian, Carlton Wade, “Planning Metropolitan Atlanta? The Atlanta Regional Commission, 1970–2002” (University of Michigan, 2008). Order No. DA3343004.

Buss, Lloyd, “The Church and the City: Detroit’s Open Housing Movement” (University of Michigan, 2008). Order No. DA3343018.

Clemmer, Heather A., “‘The City that Knows How’: San Francisco, the Great War, and Urban Identity” (University of Oklahoma, 2008). Order No. DA3331462.

Connor, Michan Andrew, “Creating Cities and Citizens: Municipal Boundaries, Place Entrepreneurs, and the Production of Race in Los Angeles County, 1926–1978” (University of Southern California, 2008). Order No. DA3341718.

Fleit, Shelley Arrian, “The Influence of Organizational Structure on Hospital Social Work Practice and Professional Identity” (State University of New York, Stony Brook, 2008). Order No. DA3338210.

Holst, Nancy A., “Pattern Books and the Suburbanization of Germantown, Pennsylvania, in the Mid-nineteenth Century” (University of Delaware, 2008). Order No. DA3337426.

Miletsky, Zebulon V., “City of Amalgamation: Race, Marriage, Class, and Color in Boston, 1890–1930” (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2008). Order No. DA3337029.

Serbulo, Leanne Claire, “‘Whose Streets? Our Streets!’: Urban Social Movements and the Transformation of Everyday Life in Pacific Northwest Cities, 1900–1999” (Portland State University, 2008). Order No. DA3343780.

 

Ford, Liam T. A., Soldier Field: A Stadium and Its City. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. xiv, 364 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-0-226-25706-8.)

 

Buttenwieser, Ann L., Governors Island: The Jewel of New York Harbor. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2009. xviii, 234 pp. $60.00, isbn 978-0-8156-0936-0.) Heavily illustrated.

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