Suburban developers changed the policy landscape of the United States in the first half of the twentieth century. Prior to the advent of oft-studied federal agencies during the Great Depression, developers shared ideas—first through informal cor…
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Italy’s urban camps for segregating the Roma minority have received much critical attention recently, yet few attempts have been made to explore how they have evolved historically and function as systems of social control from a theoretical poin…
Situated on a crescent-shaped swath of largely swampy land between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, the city of New Orleans has limited ability to expand its geographical boundaries. New Orleanians’ efforts to expand and develop the…
In trying to understand why one of the United States’ biggest cities has been overlooked in scholarship, this article argues that the mass media has helped to obscure Houstonians’ own narratives of their city. This article looks closely at…
Situated at the intersection between histories of urban politics, civil rights, and the rise of neoliberalism, this article explores the changing dynamics of mayoral politics in Atlanta, Georgia, during the first two decades of black governance. In pa…
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Spaniards in New York City during the 1920s used soccer to create and maintain multiple notions of identities centered on supra-national, national, and regional affiliations. Success on the field against other teams demonstrated the talent and strengt…
Patterson Colony, an agricultural town built out at the height of the City Beautiful era, exhibits that movement’s distinctive monumental geometries writ small, imitative of Washington, D.C., and jarringly unlike its grid-bound neighbors in Cali…
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