Administrators or Critical Cynics? A Study of Gender Equality Workers in Swedish Higher Education
NORA – Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, Volume 22, Issue 3, Page 204-218, September 2014.
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Feminist Discursive Institutionalism—A Poststructural Alternative
NORA – Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, Volume 22, Issue 3, Page 170-186, September 2014.
Interpreting Abandoned Sites: Administrative, Market, and Grassroots Frameworks
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Acceptably Pleasing: The Urban Advisors and the Struggle to Improve Freeway Design
In the face of rancorous opposition to freeways being blasted into central cities and congressional mandates to reduce noise pollution, enhance safety, and protect parks and historic buildings, federal highway administrator Rex M. Whitton consulted wi…
Best Laid Plans: Seeing Los Angeles for What It Is, Was, and Could Be
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Citizen Activism and Freeway Revolts in Memphis and Nashville: The Road to Litigation
In the 1950s, the Tennessee State Highway Department planned Interstate-40 segments through Overton Park in Memphis and a central city black community in Nashville. Although slow to develop, freeway revolts emerged in both cities by the mid-1960s. Cit…
The City and the City: Race, Nationalism, and Architecture in Early Twentieth-Century Bangkok
This article examines the racialization of urban space in early twentieth-century Bangkok. After a general strike in 1910, the Siamese monarchy represented itself in urban space as the leaders of a sovereign nation with a racial Other in its midst. Ra…
Realignment: Highways and Livability Policy in the Post-Interstate Era, 1978-2013
While federal policy makers have pursued „livable“ communities since the late 1970s, they have rarely agreed on precisely what „livability“ entailed and how best to achieve it. When U.S. Secretary of the Department of Transportation Ray LaHood promise…
Revisiting the Urban Interstates: Politics, Policy, and Culture since World War II
Authors of the five essays published in this special section of the Journal of Urban History highlight the Interstate’s harsh and mostly unyielding consequences for urban residents, for their neighborhoods, and for their livelihoods. Politics an…
Expressways before the Interstates: The Case of Detroit, 1945-1956
After the Second World War, city halls and local business communities cooperated to forestall urban decline in the face of population, industry, and retail loss to the suburbs and the Sunbelt. Before the U.S. Congress passed laws that established nati…