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Urban and Suburban

 

Ashbolt, Anthony, “‘Go Ask Alice’? Remembering the Summer of Love Forty Years On,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 26 (Dec. 2007), 35–47.

Farrow, Lee A., “Grandeur Amidst the Ashes: The Chicago Visit of Russian Grand Duke Alexis, 1871–1872,” Journal of Illinois History, 11 (Spring 2008), 2–16.

Hirsch, Arnold R., “Fade to Black: Hurricane Katrina and the Disappearance of Creole New Orleans,” Journal of American History, 94 (Dec. 2007), 752–61.

Kelman, Ari, “Boundary Issues: Clarifying New Orleans’s Murky Edges,” Journal of American History, 94 (Dec. 2007), 695–703.

Landphair, Juliette, “‘The Forgotten People of New Orleans’: Community, Vulnerability, and the Lower Ninth Ward,” Journal of American History, 94 (Dec. 2007), 837–45.

Long, Alecia P., “Poverty Is the New Prostitution: Race, Poverty, and Public Housing in Post-Katrina New Orleans,” Journal of American History, 94 (Dec. 2007), 795–803.

Moore, Debra H., and Andrew J. Theising, “The Hollow Prize of East St. Louis: How Institutional Function and Institutional Culture Limited a City’s Future,” Journal of Illinois History, 11 (Spring 2008), 17–38.

Park, Jinbin, “1919neyon Chicago eui injongpokdonggwa dosi munjae” (The 1919 Chicago race riot and the urban question), Miguksa Yongu/Korean Journal of American History (Seoul), 26 (Nov. 2007), 97–123. In Korean.

Pigott, W. Benjamin, “The ‘Problem’ of the Black Middle Class: Morris Milgram’s Concord Park and Residential Integration in Philadelphia’s Postwar Suburbs,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 132 (April 2008), 173–90.

Smirnova, Olga, and Jerry Ingalls, “The Influence of State Annexation Laws on the Growth of Selected Southern Cities,” Southeastern Geographer, 47 (May 2007), 71–85.

Souther, J. Mark, “The Disneyfication of New Orleans: The French Quarter as Facade in a Divided City,” Journal of American History, 94 (Dec. 2007), 804–11.

 

Hobor, George, “Post Industrial Pathways: The Economic Reorganization of the Urban Rust Belt” (University of Arizona, 2007). Order No. DA3266254.

Miller, Christopher Mark, “Milwaukee’s First Suburbs: A Re-interpretation of Suburban Incorporation in Nineteenth-Century Milwaukee County” (Marquette University, 2007). Order No. DA3263804.

Rabig, Julia, “Broken Deal: Devolution, Development, and Civil Society in Newark, New Jersey, 1960–1990” (University of Pennsylvania, 2007). Order No. DA3271802.

Scott, Amy L., “Remaking Urban in the American West: Lifestyles Politics, Micropolitan Urbanism, and Hip Capitalism in Boulder, Colorado, 1958–1978” (University of New Mexico, 2007). Order No. DA3269313.

Silver, Lindsay M., “‘The nation’s neighborhood’: The People, Power, and Politics of Capitol Hill since the Civil War” (Brandeis University, 2007). Order No. DA3274392.

 

Gordon, Colin, Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. xiv, 284 pp. $55.00, isbn 978-0-8122-4070-2.) Heavily illustrated.

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