Journal of Urban History (JUH), peer-reviewed and published bi-monthly, provides scholars and professionals with the latest research, analyses, and discussion on the history of cities and urban societies throughout the world. JUH presents original research by distinguished authors from the variety of fields concerned with urban history. Each insightful issue offers the latest scholarship on such topics as public housing, migration, urban growth, and more.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Introduction: Sex and the Colonial City Lorelle Semley
Special Section Articles
“Refugee from St. Domingue Living in This City”: The Geography of Social Networks in Testaments of Refugee Free Women of Color in New Orleans Elizabeth C. Neidenbach
Rape, Race, and Respectability in a South African Port City: East London, 1870-1927 Elizabeth Thornberry
“My Most Beautiful Ornament Is My House”: National Womanhood and Urban Modernity in Late Colonial and Postcolonial Senegal, 1956-1968 Elizabeth Ann Fretwell
Trouble on the Docks: Strikes, Scabs, and the Colonial Question in Marseille’s Port Neighborhoods Minayo Nasiali
Articles
Opposing Forces: The “Open Housing” Debate among Citizens, the Daily Press, and the Mayor in Milwaukee, 1967-1968 Peter R. Janecky
About the Ideal Layout of the City Street in the Twelfth to Sixteenth Centuries: The Myth of the Renaissance in Town Building Wim Boerefijn
Review Essays
Diversity. Conflict. Empowerment? The Politics of Black Chicago from Abolition to Harold Washington Sam Mitrani
The Road (Becoming) Less Traveled: The History of Highways in America John L. Renne
Is There Real Potential of Sustainable City Life? Kathleen Walston Pagan
Tokyo and Beyond: Space and Place in Urban Japan Jeffrey E. Hanes