Archiv für Januar 2013

Placing Tokyo in Time and Space

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Historic Preservation’s Urban Renewal Roots: Preservation and Planning in Midcentury Philadelphia

This article analyzes the intersection of historic preservation and city planning in post-WWII Philadelphia. Using over forty-five area plans, the city’s 1960 Comprehensive Plan, and contemporary media reports, the article explores the relations…

"First Blacks," Race and the Twentieth-Century City

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Working within the Labyrinth of Race: Crystal Bird Fauset, Urban African American Women, and the National Democratic Party, 1934-1944

Over the past forty years, historians have extensively probed the causes of the historic political realignment of urban African American votes in the United States from 1928 through 1936. In particular, historians such as Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, L…

Creative Destruction: Shaping a High-Modernist City in Interwar Turkey

This article argues that in the interwar period, the Turkish government subjected Ottoman cities to various forms of spatial planning aimed at modernizing but also ethnically homogenizing them. It draws on untapped sources to portray how the regime sa…

Esprit | 1/2013

Quelle: http://www.eurozine.com/journals/esprit/issue/2013-01-29.html

Conflicts in the North of Ireland, 1900-2000: Flashpoints and Fracture Zones, ed. Alan F. Parkinson and Eamon Phoenix

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At Freedom’s Door, by Malcolm Lyall Darling

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The Making of British Socialism, by Mark Bevir

Quelle: http://ehr.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/128/530/188?rss=1

After Ruskin: The Social and Political Legacies of a Victorian Prophet, 1870-1920, by Stuart Eagles

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