Archiv für Juni 2013

Architecture of Descent: Historical Reconstructions and the Politics of Belonging in Kaliningrad, the Former Konigsberg

The focus of this article is on the relationship between history, identity, and architectural design in a city defined by dispossession and displacement. The former German Königsberg, today’s Russian Kaliningrad, was annexed, repopulated, a…

Trouble in Smogville: The Politics of Toronto’s Air Pollution during the 1950s

By the mid-1950s the rapidly growing Toronto was arguably North America’s third-worst smog-stricken city. Its downtown waterfront area, referred to by the local media as „Smogville,“ was home to a range of pollution sources, many of which were e…

Carthage or Jerusalem? Princely Violence and the Spatial Transformation of the Medieval into the Early Modern City

This essay explores princely violence against cities and the transformation of the late medieval commune into the early modern city. Its consideration is European wide, with nascent Mexico City also studied, but its frame is the Burgundian-Habsburg ur…

Is Access to Food a Public Good? Meat Provisioning in Early New York City, 1790-1820

Taking New York as a case study, this article examines how well Early Republican city dwellers were provisioned with meat. It asks how the availability of supplies, and their distribution through a tightly regulated network of municipal marketplaces, …

Contemporary Urban History: What the Study of Port Cities Implies for Evidence, Methodology, and Conceptualization

Quelle: http://juh.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/39/4/801?rss=1

How the Federal Government Zoned America: The Federal Housing Administration and Zoning

Zoning has had an unmistakable impact on the American built environment. It is very significant then that federal policy has had an impact on zoning. The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) has been a significant instrument for this policy. It has bi…

Local Meets Global: Establishing New Perspectives in Urban History–Lessons from Ahmedabad

Urban theorists assert that cities need to be understood not only in terms of their internal systems but also in terms of their national and global connections. This study provides an analysis of these global connections for the city of Ahmedabad, Ind…

The Art Market, Arts Funding, and Sweat Equity: The Origins of Gentrified Retail

While significant scholarly attention has been paid to retail in gentrified neighborhoods, the origins of this specific form of urban commerce are less clear. The history of New York’s SoHo neighborhood provides a way to explain how and why art …

Policy versus Practice: The Problems of Urban School Reform

Quelle: http://juh.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/39/4/788?rss=1

Sport, Culture, and Nation Among the Hibernians of Philadelphia: Irish American Civic Engagement and Cultural Nationalism, 1880-1920

The Irish Americans of Philadelphia, prompted by an awakening of cultural nationalism across the Atlantic in native Ireland, constructed their own community of Irish culture, nationalism and ethnic pride in the waning years of the nineteenth century a…