The Death of the Skyscraper
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Archiv für Oktober 2012
Competing Visions of the American Single-Family Home: Defining McMansions in the New York Times and Dallas Morning News, 2000-2009
The single-family home is a critical part of the American Dream, and there has been a long conversation about what houses mean and symbolize. As American homes have grown larger, some of these newer homes have been called McMansions. This study examin…
Saints and the "Long Civil Rights Movement": Claiming Space in Memphis
In the twentieth-century American South, black religious institutions played key roles in shaping and reshaping urban landscapes. In doing so, these institutions made significant, but often overlooked, contributions to the „Long Civil Rights Movement….
"Every Man His Own Landlord": Working-class Suburban Speculation and the Antebellum Republican City
In the decade before the Civil War, Philadelphians incorporated at least twenty land associations for developing tracts on the metropolitan periphery. The companies purchased real estate, laid out streets and improvements, then conveyed one lot of gro…
The Machine in the City: Public Appropriation of the Tramway in Britain and Germany, 1870-1915
This article explores how tramways were publically appropriated, in what way people responded to the new modes of transport, and how they integrated them into their lives and urban environments. The approach of public appropriation shifts the focus aw…
The Federal Home Loan Bank Board, Redlining, and the National Proliferation of Racial Lending Discrimination, 1921-1950
By utilizing the annual reports of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board (FHLBB) and its monthly journal, the Federal Home Loan Bank Review, this essay argues that the incorporation of the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation’s appraisal scheme had se…
Ordering the Disorderly Slum: "Standardizing" Quality of Life in Marseille Tenements and Bidonvilles
During the post–World War II boom, France implemented a comprehensive urbanism program intended to modernize and rationalize the nation by putting the city, the home, and the citizen in order. Local modernization efforts were part of the state&r…
The Bismarck 1941: Hunting Germany’s Greatest Battleship
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Weller’s War: A Legendary Foreign Correspondent’s Saga of World War II on Five Continents
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Hellcats: The Epic Story of World War II’s Most Daring Submarine Raid
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