Beyond the Oriental Ghetto: New Directions in Asian American Urban History
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Archiv für Juni 2012
Social Reform and Allotment Gardening in Twentieth-Century York
This article examines the development of allotment gardens in the northern English city of York at the start of the twentieth century. Using archive material and newspaper reports, the role of the allotment gardens within wider issues of urban social …
Naked Houses: The Architecture of Nudism and the Rethinking of the American Suburbs
In the early twentieth century, organized nudism emerged as a collective social practice of predominantly white, middle-class Americans intent on pursuing alternative paths to health and well-being while shedding the poisonous sexual and cultural hang…
Population Growth in Late-Nineteenth-Century Bogota: Insights on a Demographic Dilemma
A lack of reliable statistical information hampers the analysis of Bogotá’s nineteenth-century demographic history. Census data suggest rapid changes—both declines and increases—that challenge the accuracy of official statisti…
Jews and Their Neighbors in Breslau and Kiev
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Radical Culture in Black Necropolis: Sun Ra, Alton Abraham, and Postwar Chicago
Post–World War II urban history, by prioritizing either political economy or cultural consumption, has tended to produce narratives of African American experience that emphasize marginalization or incorporation. This article examines a group of …
Sick in the City
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Moving to Integration? The Origins of Chicago’s Gautreaux Program and the Limits of Voucher-Based Housing Mobility
This article explores the origins and implementation of Chicago’s Gautreaux Assisted Housing Program, which used federal vouchers to move poor African American families to majority-white neighborhoods in the Chicago suburbs between 1976 and 1997…
Revisting Gangs in the Post-World War II North American City: A Forum
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Max Weber, the Exchange, and the possibilities of political and parliamentary intervention
Parliaments, Estates and Representation, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 53-69, April 2012.