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- 22:28, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+15,281) . . N Alien Neighbors, Foreign Friends (Created page with " The discourse around housing segregation traditionally focuses on the interplay and conflict between black and white communities. Arnold Hirsch’s Making the Second Ghetto, Th...")
- 22:28, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+13,481) . . N Voices of Protest (Created page with " After visiting the United States in 1952, the Egyptian bacteriologist Zaki Khalid recalled an observation about the Great Depression he had read in a Parisian newspaper several...")
- 22:27, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+26,032) . . N Public Vows (Created page with " In recent years, the appropriation of marriage as a tool used drive partisan passions into the red has seen frequent deployment. Whether it be Bill Clinton signing the Defense ...")
- 22:23, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+11,380) . . N Bohemian Los Angeles (Created page with " What does it mean to “be” white, or black, or gay, or rich, or Jewish? What if you were a biracial Ethiopian Jew who grew up poor but now has a big bank account? Which iden...")
- 22:23, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+8,963) . . N Non-Plan (Created page with " In his contribution to Non-Plan: Essays on Freedom, Participation and Change in Modern Architecture, Chinedu Umenyilora explores the promise and feasibility of “self-build”...")
- 22:23, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+6,669) . . N Betty Friedan and the Making of “The Feminine Mystique” (Created page with " Biographical approaches to historical study often exhibit great popularity among the broader public, however, their utility as a lens into history sparks debate among scholars....")
- 22:22, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+5,378) . . N The American Political Tradition (Created page with " Hofstadter’s 1948 epic continues to find new readers among undergrads and grad students, as well as the oft-mentioned-but-rarely-observed “educated general interest reader ...")
- 22:22, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+1,680) . . N Hope and Danger in the New South City (Created page with "Hickey writes from a historiographical moment when social history had been more fully entrenched in the discipline than Hertzberg did. “While social history has become firmly r...")
- 22:21, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+6,997) . . N Yerba Buena (Created page with " Chester Hartman’s ''Yerba Buena: Land Grab and Community Resistance in San Francisco'' served as one of the first works focusing on the actions of urban residents against the...")
- 22:21, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+19,420) . . N The Neoliberal City (Created page with " The rise and fall and rise of the postwar American city has been widely documented. New York’s early 1990s revival and ascendance, Chicago’s transformation into a global ci...")
- 22:21, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+14,601) . . N Black Corona (Created page with " Anthropologist Steven Gregory notes early on in his introduction to ''Black Corona'', “This is not a book about a “black ghetto” or an “inner city” community.” Rath...")
- 22:20, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+19,633) . . N Magic Lands (Created page with " What do Disneyland, Sun City, Arizona, Stanford Industrial Park and Seattle’s Space Needle have in common? According to John Findlay, author of ''Magical Lands: Western Citys...")
- 22:20, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+8,532) . . N Challenging the Growth Machine (Created page with " According to Barbara Ferman, academics and others focus too much on the political and economic factors that influence municipal government and planning without considering inst...")
- 22:20, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+7,780) . . N Immigrant Women in the Land of Dollars (Created page with " Published in 1985, Elizabeth Ewen’s ''Immigrant Women in the Land of Dollars: Life and Culture on the Lower East Side 1890-1925'' illustrates many of the new developments in ...")
- 22:19, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+8,579) . . N Globalizing L.A. (Created page with " As one fictional teacher once proclaimed to his students, “''Atlas Shrugged'' is about what would happen if people could create a utopia away from the dystopia of society… ...")
- 22:19, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+22,355) . . N The Postmodern Urban Condition (Created page with " Postmodernism has seen better days hasn’t it? Writing in 1989, anthropologist David Harvey offered a stinging critique of its effects. Though meant to create new oppositions ...")
- 22:19, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+9,092) . . N Magical Urbanism (Created page with " Mike Davis adds to his prolific output concerning Southern California history especially his attention to Latino immigration and urban life. Less angry then ''City of Quartz'' ...")
- 22:18, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+14,851) . . N City of Quartz (Created page with " == Chapter 1 == Davis traces LA history back to the turn of the century exploring some of its socialist roots that were later driven out by real estate/development/booster inte...")
- 22:11, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+5) . . Land of Desire (Undo revision 388 by WikiSysop (talk))
- 22:11, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (-6) . . Land of Desire
- 22:07, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+9,517) . . N Fortress California, 1910-1961 (Created page with " When President Dwight D. Eisenhower left office, he departed with a note of caution. Holding office in the still early years of the Cold War, Eisenhower developed a distaste fo...")
- 22:06, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+7,632) . . N Fighting Sprawl and City Hall (Created page with " Many urban renewal studies record the history of traditional urban areas in the West (San Francisco, Los Angeles, Oakland), Mid-West (Chicago, Detroit) and East Coast (New York...")
- 22:04, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+4) . . Land of Desire
- 22:03, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+6,680) . . N Land of Desire (Created page with " Leach argues that, in the years around 1900, a new American culture emerged that was secular and market-oriented, elevating personal pleasure over other values (work, religion,...")
- 22:03, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+37,997) . . N The Silent Majority (Created page with " “If ‘the problem of the color line’ represented the fundamental crisis of the twentieth century, the foremost challenge of the twenty-first has evolved into the suburban ...")
- 22:02, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+16,764) . . N White Flight (Created page with " In recent works by M.D. Lassiter, Bruce Schulman, Becky Nicolaides, and Robert Self, each suggests the creation and proliferation of taxpayers and homeowners identities develop...")
- 22:01, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (-1) . . Twentieth Century United States (→Reading Lists)
- 21:56, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+150) . . My Blue Heaven
- 21:55, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+1,766) . . My Blue Heaven
- 21:50, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+10,625) . . N The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (Created page with " Writing in 1972, William Appleman Williams surveyed the wreckage of U.S. diplomacy from the Spanish American War to the quagmire of Southeast Asia. Long dominated by elites, U....")
- 21:49, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+4,596) . . N Hiroshima (Created page with " Ronald Takaki’s book Hiroshima: Why America Dropped the Bomb explores the decision-making process that led up to America’s se of nuclear weapons against Japan in World War ...")
- 21:48, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+8,915) . . N The Crisis of Growth Politics (Created page with " “Growth politics can be defined, simply, as the effort by governments to enhance the economic attractiveness of their locality, to increase the intensity of land use by entic...")
- 21:48, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+8,404) . . N Black Chicago (Created page with " In 1967, Alan Spear published Black Chicago: The Making of a Negro Ghetto 1880-1920. Though known for its intense levels of housing segregation, Chicago, Spears argued had not ...")
- 21:47, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (-1) . . Beggars and Choosers (→Bibliography)
- 21:47, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (-4) . . Beggars and Choosers
- 21:46, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+20,638) . . N Beggars and Choosers (Created page with " Beggars can’t be choosers. That common truism is the basis for Rickie Solinger's study of the inequities of abortion politics in the late twentieth century, when reproductive...")
- 21:44, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+11,263) . . N The New York Approach (Created page with " Robert Caro’s seminal work, ''The Power Broker'', served as the definitive historical work on Robert Moses and New York City’s urban redevelopment for over twenty years. Ho...")
- 21:43, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+14,393) . . N The Seventies (Created page with " Historians often locate the great cultural shift in 20th century American history during the late 1950s and much of the 1960s, most notably 1968. However, Bruce Schulman argues...")
- 21:42, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+11,356) . . N The Future of Us All (Created page with " “All politics is local,” the famous Tip O’Neill dictum takes on a new tinge in Roger Sanjek’s anthropological study of Elmhurst-Corona specifically its local government...")
- 21:42, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+5) . . The Politics of Urban Renewal
- 21:41, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+9,056) . . N The Politics of Urban Renewal (Created page with " From its initial pages, Peter H. Rossi and Robert A. Dentler identify the primary impetus behind their work, “The central question of this study is what did citizens contribu...")
- 21:40, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+14,856) . . N The Ideology of Home Ownership (Created page with " America’s recent housing crisis occurred in great deal because of the near religious dedication to home owner ideal that is seen by many as the culmination of freedom, rights...")
- 21:39, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+16,245) . . N The Bulldozer in the Countryside (Created page with " Following World War II, America experienced an explosion in post war building that sought to meet the constrained housing needs of the country. The government and private devel...")
- 21:39, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+2,872) . . N Contested Truths (Created page with " Rodgers follows the varied lives of seven terms that Americans have struggled over in their political discourse: utility, natural rights, the people, government, the state, int...")
- 21:38, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+8,906) . . N Harlem (Created page with " In 1967, Alan Spear published ''Black Chicago: The Making of a Negro Ghetto 1880-1920''. Though known for its intense levels of housing segregation, Chicago, Spears argued, had...")
- 21:38, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+8,729) . . N Cities of Knowledge (Created page with " Margaret Pugh O’Mara’s Cities of Knowledge is a welcome addition to the study of the so-called “informational city,” to which scholars such as Manuel Castells and AnnaL...")
- 21:37, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+8,730) . . N My Blue Heaven (Created page with " Margaret Pugh O’Mara’s Cities of Knowledge is a welcome addition to the study of the so-called “informational city,” to which scholars such as Manuel Castells and AnnaL...")
- 21:36, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+9,457) . . N The Cristal Experiment (Created page with " Armando Navarro, The Cristal Experiment: A Chicano Struggle for Community Control, 1998 From 1970-1975, Chicano activists and political leaders behind the stewardship of Jose ...")
- 21:36, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+9,759) . . N The Contested City (Created page with " Writing in 1983, Political Scientist John Mollenkopf produced ''The Contested City'', a study of pro-growth political coalitions, conservative and liberal, and their deleteriou...")
- 21:33, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+9,769) . . N Middletown (Created page with " The classic study Middletown: A Study in American Culture by the husband and wife Lynd’s adopts an anthropological approach toward growing American cities of modest size (30,...")
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