Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik | 8/2013
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Archiv für August 2013
The Varieties of Urban Experience: A Study in Urban Nature
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Middle-Class Castle: Constructing Gentrification at London’s Barbican Estate
The Barbican Estate, in London’s square-mile City financial district, is one of the capital’s most unique residential spaces. In the 1950s the City Corporation redeveloped the war-damaged site as a „high class“ neighborhood even though the…
Modernity, Melancholy, Memory, and Filth: New Perspectives on Russian and Soviet Cities
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Battle of the Port: Memory, Preservation, and Planning in the Creation of the South Street Seaport Museum
The creation of the South Street Seaport Museum in 1967 represents a dynamic synthesis of urban development, civic memory, and the use of heritage in urban revitalization. The dominant narrative of midcentury urban renewal debates, which pits growth-o…
Mrs. McCain’s Parlor: House and Garden Tours and the Inner-City Restoration Trend in Washington, D.C.
A housing restoration trend—called „brownstoning“ in New York, and urban pioneering or the back-to-the-city trend in other cities—had a noticeable impact in several major U.S. cities from the late 1950s onwards. Nowhere was the trend more …
Jane Jacobs and the Cosmopolitan Metropolis: 2012 UHA Presidential Address
Since the death of Jane Jacobs in 2006 there has been a long list of tributes and retrospective evaluations of her work. This essay joins in the retrospection and questions the influence of Jacobs on actual metropolitan development as opposed to writi…
„Our Corner of the World“: Australian Urban History and the Poetics of Space
This essay reviews urban history research in Australia, arguing that as the field has developed since the 1970s it has become increasingly interdisciplinary and outward looking. The essay draws attention to analysis that has focused on the vernacular …
Harlem in Black and White: Mapping Race and Place in the 1920s
In the 1920s, as Harlem emerged as the largest black city in the world, a significant white presence remained in the neighborhood. Whites not only frequented nightlife, they owned and operated the vast majority of Harlem’s businesses, policed it…
Building „A City of Upper-Middle-Class Citizens“: Labor Markets, Segregation, and Growth in Austin, Texas, 1950-1973
This essay documents labor market and residential segregation in Austin, Texas, in the three decades after World War Two, arguing that despite the city’s relatively progressive culture it was as racially segregated as most Northern and Southern …