Recent Scholarship
Urban and Suburban
Diamond, Adam, “What a Waste: Municipal Refuse Reform and a Century of Solid-Waste Management in Los Angeles,” Southern California Quarterly, 88 (Fall 2006), 339–65.
Gräser, Marcus, “Urbanisierung ohne administrative Kompetenz: Chicago, 1880–1940” (Urbanization without administrative competence: Chicago, 1880–1940), in Megastädte im 20. Jahrhundert (Megacities in the 20th century), ed. Wolfgang Schwentker, 27–55. (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2006. 308 pp. Paper, €24.90, isbn 978-3-525-36296-9.) In German.
Hill, Libby, “The Chicago Epidemic of 1885: An Urban Legend?,” Journal of Illinois History, 9 (Autumn 2006), 154–74.
Longo, Julie, “Remembering the Renaissance City: Detroit’s Bicentennial Homecoming Festival and Urban Redevelopment,” Michigan Historical Review, 32 (Fall 2006), 89–118.
Salzmann, Joshua, “The Chicago Lakefront’s Last Frontier: The Turnerian Mythology of Streeterville, 1886–1961,” Journal of Illinois History, 9 (Autumn 2006), 201–14.
Whitlock, Flint, “No Ordinary Day: The 1951 Bomber Crash in Denver’s Hilltop Neighborhood,” Colorado Heritage (Summer 2006), 32–47. Heavily illustrated.
Borgerson, Scott Gerald, “Of Sea and Shore: The American Global Port City’s Internationalist Approach to U.S. Foreign Policy” (Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, 2006). Order No. DA3215386.
Mulvihill, Shauna Marie, “A Tale of Two Suburbs, or, The Urban Fortunes of El Segundo and Hawthorne, California, 1905–1960” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2005). Order No. DA3208333.
Rich, Harold W., “Beyond Outpost: Fort Worth, 1880–1918” (Texas Christian University, 2006). Order No. DA3207513.
White, Jeremy Scott, “Constructing the Invisible Landscape: Organizing the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles” (University of California, Berkeley, 2005). Order No. DA3211565.
Zipp, Samuel Taylor, “Manhattan Projects: Cold War Urbanism in the Age of Urban Renewal” (Yale University, 2006). Order No. DA3214338.
Birch, Eugenie L., and Susan M. Wachter, eds., Rebuilding Urban Places after Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. xii, 375 pp. Paper, $34.95, isbn 978-0-8122-1980-7.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.
Bogart, Michele H., The Politics of Urban Beauty: New York and Its Art Commission. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xviii, 368 pp. $55.00, isbn 978-0-226-06305-8.)
Foster, Mark S., Citizen Quigg: A Mayor’s Life of Civic Service. (Golden: Fulcrum, 2006. x, 350 pp. Paper, $16.95, isbn 978-1-55591-548-3.)
Goldfield, David, ed., Encylopedia of American Urban History. (Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2007. Vol. 1, A–L: xxxviii, 483 pp. Vol. 2, M–Z: xxx, 494 pp. $300.00/set, isbn 978-0-7619-2884-3/set.)
Gutheim, Frederick, and Antoinette J. Lee, Worthy of the Nation: Washington, D.C., from L’Enfant to the National Capital Planning Commission. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. x, 430 pp. $65.00, isbn 0-8018-8328-8.) Originally published in 1977.
Lenz, Günter H., Friedrich Ulfers, and Antje Dallmann, eds., Toward a New Metropolitanism: Reconstituting Public Culture, Urban Citizenship, and the Multicultural Imaginary in New York and Berlin. (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag, 2006. 496 pp. €52.00, isbn 978-3-8253-5227-1.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.
Schwentker, Wolfgang, ed., Megastädte im 20. Jahrhundert (Megacities in the 20th century). (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2006. 308 pp. Paper, €24.90, isbn 978-3-525-36296-9.) In German.
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