Urban History Review articles

Recent articles from Urban History Review

Downtowns, past and present.(Essay)
March 22, 2009... In the last two decades, analysts of urban change have focused on the evolution of metropolitan areas that have increasingly taken the form of "fragmented mixtures of employment and residential settings, combining urban and suburban characteristic." (1) Edge cities, edgeless cities, exurbs,...

Fighting for a radical city: student protesters and the politics of space in 1960s and 1970s downtown Manhattan.(Report)
March 22, 2009... In the popular imagination, 1960s radicalism often appears as a national phenomenon that varied little from region to region. The case of downtown Manhattan during these years, however, challenges this assumption. Student radicals at New York University in Greenwich Village were just as...

Ultramodern underground Dallas: Vincent Ponte's pedestrian-way as systematic solution to the declining downtown.(Report)
March 22, 2009... Mid last century, North American civil servants and urban planners and developers proffered inventive solutions to the problem of the declining downtown core. Robert Moses looked to super-block development and Title of the US Housing Act of 1949 to funnel federal dollars into urban renewal...

The events city: Sport, culture, and the transformation of inner Melbourne, 1977-2006.(Report)
March 22, 2009... In 2006 Melbourne, Australia, played host to an almost monthly lineup of major international sporting and cultural events: the Australian Open Tennis tournament, the Commonwealth Games and associated cultural festival, a Formula One Grand Prix, an International Flower and Garden Show, an arts...

Redonner forme et vie au centre historique de Palerme (sicile). Retour sur une experience de developpment territoriale et de requalification urbaine (1993-2001).(Report)
March 22, 2009... Le centre historique de Palerme a connu au lendemain du second conflit mondial un lent et inexorable processus de devitalisation sous Veffet conjoint de son depeuplement et de sa pauperisation. Sa requalification, engagee a Vinitiative du maire de centre-gauche Leoluca Orlando, a commence au...