Urban History 2023

Urban History Association 2023 conference
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*CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR RAFFLE WINNERS: Menika Dirkson and Andrew Busch *

Temple University Press seeks proposals for its renowned urban studies list, including books on housing, gentrification, planning, downtown development, urban environmental and sustainability studies, urban politics, local and regional government, and more. 

The Press is proud to offer the Zane L. Miller Book Development Award. Scholars from underrepresented communities with limited financial resources are invited to apply for this grant of up to $2500 to help defray expenses related to the development of an urban studies-focused book manuscript. Awardees will work directly with one of the editors of our Urban Life, Landscape, and Policy book series to craft their manuscript. 

To schedule a meeting with our acquisitions editor at the 2023 Urban History Association Conference or more information about the Miller award, please contact Temple University Press Editor-in-Chief Aaron Javsicas: aaron.javsicas@temple.edu

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Urban Studies titles and our Urban Life, Landscape, and Policy series

Archaeology at the Site of the Museum of the American Revolution

A Tale of Two Taverns and the Growth of Philadelphia

Rebecca Yamin

152 pages | 5 x 8 | 55 color photos, 2 figures, 8 halftones, 6 maps

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Architectures of Revolt

The Cinematic City circa 1968

Edited by Mark Shiel

A groundbreaking exploration of how filmmaking, architecture, and urban planning shaped and were shaped by mass protest movements in and around 1968

262 pages | 6 x 9 | 34 halftones

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The Battles of Germantown

Effective Public History in America

David W. Young

Lessons from Philadelphia's Germantown neighborhood on how the public engages the past

294 pages | 6 x 9 | 5 figures, 17 halftones, 2 maps

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Beauty and Brutality

Manila and Its Global Discontents

Edited by Martin F. Manalansan IV, Robert Diaz, and Rolando B. Tolentino

Diverse perspectives on Manila that suggest the city’s exhilarating sights and sounds broaden how Philippine histories are defined and understood

346 pages | 6 x 9 | 22 halftones, 1 map

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Before Crips

Fussin', Cussin', and Discussin' among South Los Angeles Juvenile Gangs

John C. Quicker and Akil S. Batani-Khalfani

A historical analysis of South Los Angeles juvenile gang life as revealed by those who were there

464 pages | 6 x 9 | 7 tables, 14 halftones, 1 map

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Believing in Cleveland

Managing Decline in “The Best Location in the Nation”

J. Mark Souther

Explores how civic and business leaders used image-making in an effort to reimagine and revive Cleveland in the decades after World War II​

284 pages | 6 x 9 | 2 figures, 12 halftones, 2 maps

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Bringing the Civic Back In

Zane L. Miller and American Urban History

Edited by Larry Bennett, John D. Fairfield, and Patricia Mooney-Melvin

A critical appraisal of the career of Zane L. Miller, one of the founders of the new urban history

226 pages | 5.5 x 8.25

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Building a Social Contract

Modern Workers’ Houses in Early Twentieth-Century Detroit

Michael McCulloch

Shows that power is negotiated through housing development, which spatializes race and class relations and is central to workers’ security

242 pages | 6 x 9 | 1 table, 9 figures, 61 halftones

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Building the Urban Environment

Visions of the Organic City in the United States, Europe, and Latin America

Harold L. Platt

An international comparative study that considers how competing agents of change have interacted to build the urban environment

312 pages | 6 x 9 | 1 figure, 14 maps

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Constructing the Patriarchal City

Gender and the Built Environments of London, Dublin, Toronto, and Chicago, 1870s into the 1940s

Maureen A. Flanagan

An original, comparative examination of how ideas about gender resulted in the consolidation of the patriarchal city in the Anglo-Atlantic urban world

342 pages | 6 x 9 | 14 halftones, 6 maps

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Digging in the City of Brotherly Love

Stories from Philadelphia Archaeology
Second Edition

Rebecca Yamin

New archaeological finds in Philadelphia and state-of-the-art analyses bring more of the city’s unknown past and its people to life

320 pages | 7 x 10 | 75 color photos, 2 tables, 10 figures, 91 halftones, 9 maps

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Divide & Conquer

Race, Gangs, Identity, and Conflict

Robert D. Weide

Argues that contemporary identity politics divides gang members and their communities across racial lines

284 pages | 6 x 9 | 6 tables, 14 halftones, 1 map

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Ecohumanism and the Ecological Culture

The Educational Legacy of Lewis Mumford and Ian McHarg

William J. Cohen

Explores how the vision of ecohumanism was championed by Lewis Mumford and operationalized by Ian McHarg

318 pages | 6 x 9 | 4 figures, 5 line drawings, 17 halftones

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Engaging Place, Engaging Practices

Urban History and Campus-Community Partnerships

Edited by Robin F. Bachin and Amy L. Howard

How public history can be a catalyst for stronger relationships between universities and their communities

218 pages | 5.5 x 8.25 | 19 color photos, 7 halftones, 2 maps

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Environmental Activism and the Urban Crisis

Baltimore, St. Louis, Chicago

Robert R. Gioielli

How the postwar decay of America's industrial city's helped to give rise to environmental movement

224 pages | 6 x 9 | 11 halftones

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