Book Review Preview: Good Neighbors

By Dennis E. Gale Sylvie Tissot. Good Neighbors. (London and New York: Verso, 2015) A study of Boston’s South End, Good Neighbors examines the once-declining neighborhood’s revitalization from the 1960s to 2010. Tissot’s ethnographic approach yields a multi-layered account of her interviews and observations of South End residents, as well as insights gleaned from print…

Book Review Preview: Multicultural Cities

By Carlos Teixeira Mohammad Abdul Qadeer, Multicultural Cities: Toronto, New York, and Los Angeles. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016). Both the United States and Canada are important immigrant-receiving countries. Their long histories of accommodating multiracial and multiethnic populations have led to their inclusion in lists of “countries of immigrants.” Like many other cities in…

Book Review Preview: The New York Nobody Knows

By Tony Filipovitch William B. Helmreich, The New York Nobody Knows:  Walking 6,000 Miles in the City (Princeton, NJ:  Princeton University Press, 2013). In The New York Nobody Knows Helmreich proposes to evaluate the city sociologically as a whole, and make it come alive. To write this book, he walked all 6,000 miles of streets…

Book Review Preview: Homes Fit for Heroes

By John Walls Lou Rosenburg, Scotland’s Homes Fit for Heroes: Garden City Influences on the Development of Scottish Working Class Housing, 1900-1939 (Edinburgh: The Word Bank and the Scottish Centre for Conservation Studies, 2016) In the aftermath of World War 1 the British Government established a bold programme for 500,000 houses for the returning veterans.…

2017 Brings Changes for JUA

By Igor Vojnovic Happy New Year! As we begin 2017, you will notice that the Journal of Urban Affairs has gone through a major transformation. After 18 years with Wiley, the JUA has moved to Taylor & Francis/Routledge (http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ujua20/current). The switch culminates a year-and-a-half of work and marks a new era for the JUA. The…

Book Review Preview: Planetary Gentrification

By Dennis E. Gale Loretta Lees, Hyun Bang Shin and Ernesto Lopez-Morales. Planetary Gentrification. (Cambridge, England and Malden, Massachusetts: Polity Press, 2016) This book argues that gentrification is not limited to advanced nations in the English-speaking world or in Western Europe. It appears in parts of South America, Africa and South Asia, taking on many…

Book Review Preview: The Mutual Housing Experiment

By Rachel G. Bratt Kristin M. Szylvian, The Mutual Housing Experiment (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2015). In the early and mid-1940s about 167,700 units of housing for civilian defense workers were constructed. At the end of World War II, some 50 of these developments were sold to the residents under a cooperative ownership scheme…

Job Opening: Associate Professor – Urban Futures Research – School of Planning, University of Cincinnati

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR - Tenured Faculty Urban Futures Research Cluster Initiative Focusing on Quality of Life in Disadvantaged Urban Communities School of Planning College of Design, Architecture, Art & Planning UNIVERSITY of CINCINNATI The School of Planning in the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning at the University of Cincinnati is actively seeking candidates to…

Call for Papers: JUA Special Issue on Promoting Social Justice and Equity in Shrinking Cities

Special Issue: Promoting Social Justice and Equity in Shrinking Cities Guest Editor: Robert Mark Silverman Submission Deadlines: Abstracts - December 19, 2016 Full Manuscripts - May 15, 2017 There is an expanding body of scholarship focusing on shrinking cities. The phenomenon is global, with notable examples in Europe, North America, Asia, and other parts of…

Call for Participation: Urban Network Research

THE FUTURE OF URBAN NETWORK RESEARCH, September 18 - 20, 2017 at Ghent University (Belgium) References to 'urban networks' in academic books and articles have grown dramatically since the 1950s, and research on the topic of urban networks now extends across many social and natural science disciplines (e.g. geography, sociology, engineering, physics) and over many…