Recent Scholarship
Urban and Suburban
Birch, Eugenie L., “Learning from Past Disasters,” in Rebuilding Urban Places after Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina, ed. Eugenie L. Birch and Susan M. Wachter, 132–48. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. xii, 375 pp. Paper, $34.95, isbn 978-0-8122-1980-7.)
Deloria, Philip J., “Drain the Lake! Tear Down the Butte! Build Paradise! The Environmental Dimensions of Social and Economic Power in Boulder, Colorado, and Benzie, Michigan,” Southern California Quarterly, 89 (Spring 2007), 65–88.
Ehrenfeucht, Renia, and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, “Constructing the Sidewalks: Municipal Government and the Production of Public Space in Los Angeles, California, 1880–1920,” Journal of Historical Geography (London), 33 (Jan. 2007), 104–24.
Murphy, Mary Smith, “Growing Up in the Bronx,” Bronx County Historical Society Journal, 43 (Spring 2006), 22–34.
Nijman, Jan, “Place-Particularity and ‘Deep Analogies’: A Comparative Essay on Miami’s Rise as a World City,” Urban Geography, 28 (Jan.–Feb. 2007), 92–107.
Norton, Peter D., “Street Rivals: Jaywalking and the Invention of the Motor Age Street,” Technology and Culture, 48 (April 2007), 331–59.
Upton, Dell, “Understanding New Orleans’s Architectural Ecology,” in Rebuilding Urban Places after Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina, ed. Eugenie L. Birch and Susan M. Wachter, 275–87. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. xii, 375 pp. Paper, $34.95, isbn 978-0-8122-1980-7.)
Prude, Jonathan, “Engaging Urban Panoramas: City Views of the Antebellum North,” Common-Place, 7 (April 2007), http://www.common-place.org. Heavily illustrated.
Thale, Christopher, “Changing Addresses: Social Conflict, Civic Culture, and the Politics of House Numbering Reform in Milwaukee, 1913–1931,” Journal of Historical Geography (London), 33 (Jan. 2007), 125–43.
Wheeler, Stephen M., and Wade Patterson, “The Rise of the Regional City: Spatial Development of the Albuquerque Metropolitan Area,” New Mexico Historical Review, 82 (Winter 2007), 1–36. Heavily illustrated.
Wilson, Jamie J., “Individual and Organizational Responses to Health Conditions in Harlem, New York, during the Interwar Period,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 31 (Jan. 2007), 43–63.
Ehrenfeucht, Renia, “Constructing the Public in Urban Space: Streets, Sidewalks, and Municipal Regulation in Los Angeles, 1880–1940” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2006). Order No. DA3226054.
Momchedjikova, Blagovesta, “The Miniature Meteropolis as Memory Palace” (New York University, 2006). Order No. DA3221977.
Osborne, Kristen J., “Graphic Dissent: The Editorial Cartoon View of Urban Conflict, 1992–2001” (University of Delaware, 2006). Order No. DA3220790.
Berg, Scott W., Grand Avenues: The Story of the French Visionary Who Designed Washington, D.C. (New York: Pantheon, 2007. xiv, 336 pp. $25.00, isbn 978-0-375-42280-5.)
Cartosi, Bruno, New York e il moderno. Società, arte e architettura nella metropoli americana (1876–1917) (New York and the modern. Society, art, and architecture in the American metropolis [1876–1917]). (Milan: Feltrinelli, 2007. 368 pp. €25.00, isbn 978-88-07-10417-6.) In Italian.
Murphy, Mary Smith, “Growing Up in the Bronx,” Bronx County Historical Society Journal, 43 (Spring 2006), 22–34.
Beveridge, Charles E., Carolyn F. Hoffman, and Kenneth Hawkins, eds., The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted, vol. 7: Parks, Politics, and Patronage, 1874–1882. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. xxvi, 756 pp. $85.00, isbn 0-8018-8336-9.)
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