Seeing the City: The Filming of West Side Story
When West Side Story moved from stage to screen, the story became further enmeshed in the city of its setting. The filmmakers Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise used the cinematic elements of color,...
View Article"The Best Things in Life Are Here" in "The Mistake on the Lake": Narratives...
Historians have devoted ample attention to the urban crisis, but few have explored symbolic actions to manage attitudes toward metropolitan change. In the 1980s, Cleveland, Ohio, experienced what many...
View ArticleThe "Loft Cause" or "Bohemia Gone Bourgeois?": Artist Housing and Private...
The Westbeth Arts Center in New York’s Greenwich Village was one of the first large-scale institutionally sponsored conversions of nineteenth-century factories into residential lofts for artists. A...
View ArticleThe Artist as Developer and Advocate: Real Estate and Public Policy in SoHo,...
Contemporary scholars have focused on creative placemaking and the role of the arts in urban development, but there is less of an academic understanding of how artists contribute to neighborhood...
View ArticleBetween the "Culture of Poverty" and the Cultural Revolution: Katherine...
In 1967, the world-renowned African American choreographer Katherine Dunham moved to East St. Louis to open the Performing Arts Training Center (PATC), which offered free classes in dance, music,...
View ArticleFear, Commercialism, Reform, and Antebellum Tourism to New York City
Tourism to New York grew after the 1820s, during a period of incredible growth in the size of the city and its attendant problems. As the contrast between the glittering commercialism of Broadway and...
View ArticleBuilding a Midwest Cultural Capital: Professional Theater and Urban...
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul faced an urban crisis similar to that of many American cities, as a growing ring of suburbs attracted residents and...
View ArticleCommercialism and Identity Politics in New York's Chinatown
After World War II, a remarkable, self-conscious process of community building has taken place in U.S. Chinatowns, especially when the institution of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 led to...
View ArticleIntroduction. Unmarried and Unknown: Urban Men and Women in the Low Countries...
This essay introduces a special issue on The Lure of the City that examines the attraction of towns to unmarried men and women in the Low Countries during the early modern period and the nineteenth...
View ArticleLife and Death of Singles in Dutch Cities, 1850-1940
Our study entails a quantitative analysis of the life courses of permanent celibates in Dutch cities. We make use of a large database with randomly selected life courses (Historical Sample of the...
View ArticleBetween Order and Modernity: Resurgence Planning in Revolutionary Egypt
Egypt’s Revolution of 1952 presented a major historical change to its political and economic structure, its society, and its institutions. This paper examines how Nasser’s regime operated through the...
View ArticleDiscourses versus Life Courses: Servants Extramarital Sexual Activities in...
This article combines qualitative and quantitative analysis to study the effect of rural–urban migration on the sexual behavior of servants in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Flanders. In the...
View ArticlePlace and Politics at the Frankfurt Paulskirche after 1945
This article investigates the reconstruction of the Frankfurt Paulskirche as a symbol of German democratic identity after World War II. The place memory of the Paulskirche is deeply rooted in the 1848...
View ArticleAlone and Far from Home: Gender and Migration Trajectories of Single Foreign...
On the basis of nominal data from local foreigners’ files, this article examines gender differences in the trajectories of more than 3,000 single foreign newcomers to Antwerp between 1850 and 1880....
View ArticleRural Single Female Migrants in Early-Nineteenth-Century Bruges: An Exception...
At the start of the nineteenth century, very few young single females migrated to the city of Bruges, and women from the surrounding countryside were particularly underrepresented among the migrant...
View ArticleThe Streetcar in the Urban Imaginary of Latin America
The electric streetcar was a significant marker of modernity in Latin America, but its symbolic power rested as much in its ability to establish a presence in urban popular culture as it did in its...
View ArticleWomen Alone in Early Modern Dutch Towns: Opportunities and Strategies to Survive
The depiction of the situation of single women in early modern urban society is rather pessimistic. Women without men were portrayed as pitiful, with migrant never-married women as the most vulnerable...
View ArticleThe Zebra Murders: Race, Civil Liberties, and Radical Politics in San Francisco
The Zebra Murders were a series of racially charged homicides in San Francisco during the mid-1970s. The crimes, which appeared to be random, built on existing anxiety about violent crime to create an...
View ArticleService Access in Premodern Cities: An Exploratory Comparison of Spatial Equity
Spatial equity studies measuring urban service access have been conducted in variety of modern settings, but this research has not been extended to premodern cities. This article presents an...
View ArticleHealth Care and Urban Revitalization: A Historical Overview
This overview provides a theoretical and historiographical summary of recent trends in the history and development of medical centers, their impact on urban development, and related trends in the role...
View Article"Bringing DNA into the Neighborhood" in San Francisco: A Personal Recollection
Based primarily on personal experiences, this article aims to illustrate the troublesome relationship between the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and its adjoining neighborhoods from...
View ArticleThe City and Imperial Propaganda: A Comparative Study of Empire Day in...
This article explores how the meaning of Empire Day in the British World was manipulated and transformed through a range of urban institutions before reaching the public at large. Selecting cities in...
View ArticleBuilding the World That Kills Us: The Politics of Lead, Science, and Polluted...
One of the most troubling urban health issues is childhood poisoning caused by lead, the widespread environmental toxin. It is in old plumbing fixtures, solder, paint and other building materials in...
View Article"We Will Gladly Join You in Partnership in Harrisburg or We Will See You in...
In 1990, Mayor Sophie Masloff warned large not-for-profits, like the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), that unless they started making an increased financial contribution in the form of...
View ArticleDeath and the City: Female Public Suicide and Meaningful Space in Modern...
Poised on the cusp of the twentieth century, many urban citizens believed their societies to be sickened by suicide epidemics. It was assumed that rapid modernization and technological advance caused...
View Article"The University that Ate Birmingham": The Healthcare Industry, Urban...
In Birmingham, Alabama, in 1987, a white conservative movement arose in opposition to build a new healthcare clinic in downtown through the use of eminent domain. Critics claimed the Kirklin Clinic...
View ArticleThe Hospital City in an Ethnic Enclave: Tufts-New England Medical Center,...
Many leading hospitals and medical centers in the United States are located in large urban centers. This has meant that the post–World War II growth of the U.S. health care sector has been deeply...
View ArticleReimagining a Community: Worker Protest and Illicit Artisans in Early...
This essay examines a work stoppage that was planned by Norwich’s worsted weaver apprentices in 1610, but that never took place. In depositions taken after the plot was revealed, the apprentices told...
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