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.
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Special Section IntroductionWater and the Making of Californian and Australian Cities: Introduction Lionel Frost
Special Section Articles
Water Technology and the Urban Environment: Water, Sewerage, and Disease in San Francisco and Melbourne before 1920 Lionel Frost
Overcoming Abundance: Social Capital and Managing Floods in Inner Melbourne during the Nineteenth Century Meredith Dobbie, Ruth Morgan, and Lionel Frost
Watershed Politics: Groundwater Management and Resource Conservation in Southern California’s Pomona Valley Benjamin Hackenberger and Char Miller
Lawnscaping Perth: Water Supply, Gardens, and Scarcity, 1890–1925 Andrea Gaynor
“A Spirit of Bolshevism?”: Perth’s Water Crisis of the 1920s Jenny Gregory
From Water Engineers to Financial Engineering: Water Provision in Australia’s East Coast Capital Cities, 1945–2015 Seamus O’Hanlon and Peter Spearritt
The Allure of Climate and Water Independence: Desalination Projects in Perth and San Diego Ruth Morgan
Articles
Beyond Boundaries: Envisioning Metropolitan School Desegregation in Boston, Detroit, and Philadelphia, 1963–1974 Michael Savage
New Perspectives on New Deal Housing Policy: Explicating and Mapping HOLC Loans to African Americans Todd M. Michney and LaDale Winling
Review Essays
Managing Cultural Heritage in Asian Cities William Logan
天人合一: The Chinese Built Environment Jacob Dreyer
Two Tales of One City: Rent Strikes and Tenant Activism in Twentieth-Century New York Daniel Wishnoff
Clearance, Choreography, and Community Action: Reconsiderations of Postwar America Joseph M. Watson
Re-examining Radicalism through the Lens of Gender: Women and Anarchism in the United States, 1865–1940 John Thomas McGuire
Landscapes of the Dead Timothy B. Spears
Hidden Metropolis: Modernization and Urban Culture in Eastern Europe Cristina Florea
Whale-Oil Lamps to Electric Billboards: Illuminating the Industrial City Burton W. Peretti