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Urban and Suburban

Bewley-Taylor, David, “Watch This Space: Civil Liberties, Concept Wars, and the Future of the Urban Fortress,” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 40 (Aug. 2006), 233–55.

Fairbanks, Robert B., “The Failure of Urban Renewal in the Southwest: From City Needs to Individual Rights,” Western Historical Quarterly, 37 (Autumn 2006), 304–25.

Goodman, Sam, “The Golden Ghetto: The Grand Concourse in the Twentieth Century; Part II, 1960 to the Present,” Bronx County Historical Society Journal, 42 (Fall 2005), 80–99.

Stowe, William W., “Writing Mount Auburn: Language, Landscape, and Place,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 150 (June 2006), 296–317.

 

Davidson, Hugh Roe, “Bent to Nature: Bend, Oregon as a Case Study in Twentieth-Century Property Development” (University of Oregon, 2005). Order No. DA3201678.

Driemeyer, Laura Baker, “Rising from the Ashes: The Transformation of Nineteenth-Century Building Culture in Charlestown, Massachusetts” (Boston University, 2006). Order No. DA3202553.

Foley, William A., “John F. Kennedy and the American City: The Urban Programs of the New Frontier, 1961–1963” (Indiana University, 2006). Order No. DA3204314.

Lewinnek, Elaine, “Inventing Suburbia: Working-Class Suburbanization in Chicago, 1865–1919” (Yale University, 2005). Order No. DA3194679.

McCarthy, John, “The Reluctant City: Milwaukee’s Fragmented Metropolis, 1920–1960” (Marquette University, 2005). Order No. DA3201928.

Mikell, Ray Singleton, “The Nexus of Social Capital and Government: Community Development in an American Inner City” (University of Alabama, 2005). Order No. DA3201274.

Minner, Martin V., “Metropolitan Aspirations: Politics and Memory in Progressive Era Newark” (Indiana University, 2005). Order No. DA3204304.

Mir, Jasmine, “Marketplace of Desire: Storyville and the Making of a Tourist City in New Orleans, 1890–1920” (New York University, 2005). Order No. DA3195470.

 

Beauregard, Robert A., When America Became Suburban. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. xvi, 271 pp. Cloth, $57.00, isbn 978-0-8166-4884-9. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-0-8166-4885-6.)

Smith, Carl, The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xviii, 183 pp. $22.00, isbn 978-0-226-76471-9.)

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