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Urban and Suburban

Bahde, Thomas, “The Common Dust of Potter’s Field: New York City and Its Bodies Politic, 1800–1860,” Common-Place, 6 (July 2006) http://www.common-place.org.

Blumin, Stuart M., “Driven to the City: Urbanization and Industrialization in the Nineteenth Century,” oah Magazine of History, 20 (May 2006), 47–53.

Guang, Lin, “20shiji yimin yu shehui zhonggou” (Twentieth-century New Yorkers and social reconstruction), Journal of East China Normal University (Shanghai) (no. 5, 2003), 79–86. In Chinese.

Henderson, Andrea, “The Human Geography of Catastrophe: Family Bonds, Community Ties, and Disaster Relief after the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire,” Southern California Quarterly, 88 (Spring 2006), 37–70.

Henderson, Jason, “Secessionist Automobility: Racism, Anti-Urbanism, and the Politics of Automobility in Atlanta, Georgia,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (London), 30 (June 2006), 293–307.

Hyde, Charles K., “Planning a Transportation System for Metropolitan Detroit in the Age of the Automobile: The Triumph of the Expressway,” Michigan Historical Review, 32 (Spring 2006), 59–95.

Lewis, Michael J., “The First Design for Fairmount Park,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 130 (July 2006), 283–97.

McCarthy, John, “Dreaming of a Decentralized Metropolis: City Planning in Socialist Milwaukee,” Michigan Historical Review, 32 (Spring 2006), 33–57.

Milroy, Elizabeth, “‘For the Like Uses, as the Moor-Fields’: The Politics of Penn’s Squares,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 130 (July 2006), 257–82.

Qunlang, Sun, “Meiguo dadushiqu zhengzhide baerganhua yu zhengfutizhi gaige” (The political balkanation of U.S. cities and administrative reforms), The Chinese Journal of American History (Xiamen) (no. 2 2003), 1–10. In Chinese.

Qunlang, Sun, “Meiguo dadushiqude jijie he zhongxugeli yu kaifang jiaoqu yundong” (Class and racial segregation in American metropolitan areas and the movement of opening up the suburbs), Journal of Northeast Normal University (Changchun) (no. 4, 2004), 5–12. In Chinese.

Shanken, Andrew M., “The Uncharted Kahn: The Visuality of Planning and Promotion in the 1930s and 1940s,” Art Bulletin, 88 (June 2006), 310–27.

 

Davis-Hayes, Kenya, “Lessons of Place: The Creation of Physical and Curricular Segregation in Chicago between 1910 and 1925” (Purdue University, 2005). Order No. DA3191450.

Hitch, Neal Vernon, “Between City and Suburb: The Near Urban Neighborhood, Technology, and the Commodification of the American House, 1914–1934” (Ohio State University, 2005). Order No. DA3192871.

Moretti, GianPiero, “Between Globalization and Local Realities: Shopping Centers and Urban Forms in Los Angeles, Montreal, and Paris” (McGill University, Canada, 2004). Order No. DANR06327.

 

Daum, Andreas W., and Christof Mauch, eds., Berlin-Washington, 1800–2000: Capital Cities, Cultural Representation, and National Identities. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xiv, 318 pp. $80.00, isbn 978-0-521-84117-7.)

Gilfoyle, Timothy J., Millenium Park: Creating a Chicago Landmark. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xiv, 442 pp. $45.00, isbn 0-226-29349-1.) Heavily illustrated.

Hudson, John C., Chicago: A Geography of the City and Its Region. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xvi, 260 pp. $45.00, isbn 0-226-35806-2.) Heavily illustrated.

Reitano, Joanne, The Restless City: A Short History of New York from Colonial Times to the Present. (New York: Routledge, 2006. x, 305 pp. Cloth, $95.00, isbn 978-0-415-97848-4. Paper, $23.95, isbn 978-0-415-97849-1.)

Shapiro, Edward S., Crown Heights: Blacks, Jews, and the 1991 Brooklyn Riot. (Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2006. xx, 252 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-58465-561-9.)

Souther, J. Mark, New Orleans on Parade: Tourism and the Transformation of the Crescent City. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. xiv, 303 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8071-3193-0.)

 

Castellanos, Henry C., New Orleans as It Was: Episodes of Louisiana Life. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. xx, vi, 368 pp. Paper, $21.95, isbn 978-0-8071-3209-8.) Originally published in 1895.

White, Trumbull, “Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror: Scenes of Death and Destruction,” California Territorial Quarterly (no. 65, Spring 2006), 4–46.

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