Archiv für Juli 2016

Living Stones: The House as Actor in Early Modern Europe

This article investigates the metaphor of the „living house“ and its concrete ramifications on everyday life in late medieval and early modern Europe. For premodern Europeans, the house was an actor that occupied an important and natural role in their…

The International Garden City Campaign: Transnational Negotiations on Town Planning Methods 1913-1926

This article analyzes the garden city campaign of the International Federation for Housing and Town Planning (IFHTP). Available literature suggests the agenda of the IFHTP was dictated by the British garden city militants who had established the IFHTP…

The Limits of Public Health Reform in Urban America

Quelle: http://juh.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/42/4/800?rss=1

Managing School Integration and White Flight: The Debate over Chicagos Future in the 1960s

This article explores the policy conversation and efforts around school integration in Chicago during the 1960s. It analyzes how a conversation that originated in demands for equality for black students was transformed into one about keeping whites in…

Architect, Engineer, and Builder

Quelle: http://juh.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/42/4/811?rss=1

The Evolution of an Urban Vision: The Multilevel Pedestrian Networks in Hong Kong, 1965-1997

This study explores the spatial, social, and administrative conditions that shape Hong Kong’s grade-separated pedestrian networks. The integrated elevated pedestrian network was initially developed to facilitate internal circulation within the c…

Dispatches from the Garden State: Urban Studies Approaches to the History of New Jersey

Quelle: http://juh.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/42/4/788?rss=1

The Age of Asa: Lord Briggs, Public Life and History in Britain since 1945, ed. Miles Taylor

<span class=“paragraphSection“><span style=“font-style:italic;“>The Age of Asa: Lord Briggs, Public Life and History in Britain since 1945</span>, ed. TaylorMiles (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014; pp. 311. £60.)</span>

The Great Seljuk Empire, by A.C.S. Peacock

<span class=“paragraphSection“><span style=“font-style:italic;“>The Great Seljuk Empire</span>, by PeacockA.C.S. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh U.P., 2015; pp. 378. £29.99).</span>

Fünf Monate in Berlin: Briefe von Edgar N. Johnson aus dem Jahre 1946, ed. Werner Breunig and Jürgen Wetzel

<span class=“paragraphSection“><span style=“font-style:italic;“>Fünf Monate in Berlin: Briefe von Edgar N. Johnson aus dem Jahre 1946</span>, ed. BreunigWerner and WetzelJürgen (Oldenburg: De Gruyter, 2014; pp. 458. £29.99).</span>