{"title":"A Review of the Economic Data Emanating from the Development of Central Park and Its Influence on the Construction of Early Urban Parks in the United States","authors":"J. Crompton","doi":"10.1177/1538513220971005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1538513220971005","url":null,"abstract":"Financing Central Park by general taxation was controversial and precedent setting. It was justified by rationalizing that increases in property values around the Park would generate sufficient annual revenues to cover all the Park’s capital costs. Accordingly, the Central Park Commissioners provided data as “evidence” to support the success of this vehicle in their annual reports. This article shows these data were flawed. Notwithstanding their egregious inaccuracy, these Central Park data were ubiquitously reiterated in arguments to support urban parks in cities throughout the United States for eighty years from the 1860s until World War II.","PeriodicalId":44738,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Planning History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1538513220971005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41407978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership","authors":"Veronica E. Brown, Andrew H. Whittemore","doi":"10.1177/1538513220974655","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1538513220974655","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44738,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Planning History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1538513220974655","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44899096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New York’s Tenements: The Untold Story of Immigrant Builders, Architects, and Financiers","authors":"Robin B. Williams","doi":"10.1177/1538513220974450","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1538513220974450","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44738,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Planning History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1538513220974450","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41933785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Bicentennial and the Battle over DC’s Downtown Redevelopment during the 1970s","authors":"Lauren Pearlman","doi":"10.1177/1538513219893356","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1538513219893356","url":null,"abstract":"Few studies of post–World War II, Washington, DC, focus on the development decisions local black officials made following the passage of limited home rule measures during the 1960s–1970s. This article uses the 1976 Bicentennial as a lens to study the divisions that urban development sowed locally while the city’s government was in transition. It focuses on one of the most deeply divisive projects contested during the Bicentennial, the construction of a convention center in Downtown DC, and argues that a new coalition of stakeholders used the Bicentennial to implement a prodevelopment agenda at the expense of the city’s black residents.","PeriodicalId":44738,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Planning History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1538513219893356","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45889686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Long Way from Farm to Table: The Evolution of the United States’ Wholesale Food Business","authors":"Sophie Kelmenson","doi":"10.1177/1538513220959663","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1538513220959663","url":null,"abstract":"The development of wholesale markets fundamentally changed food provisioning in the United States. Because of this system, food today may travel around the world before it is eaten, requiring handling by untold numbers of workers and companies as well as technologies to safely store and transport it. Cities are tied up in the story of global food supply chains, as they are the endpoint for the majority of consumption. The transition to food provisioning via wholesale markets was a dramatic shift that is important for understanding food systems today, yet, with few exceptions, the new and growing subfield of food systems planning has not much examined its history. Movable Markets: Food Wholesaling in the Twentieth-Century City, by Helen Tangires, shrinks this gap by documenting the forms and spatial layouts of evolving wholesale markets across the United States over the course of the twentieth century. Tangires’ first book documented a proliferation of food retail stores in nineteenth-century cities as a result of deregulation. This sequel explores the rise of food wholesalers to supply these retail outlets. More specifically, the book investigates how, after food provisioning evolved into an activity that took up ample (and valuable) real estate, cities extricated wholesale markets from their downtowns and reconstructed them as invisible and peripheral to the city’s infrastructure. Tangires argues that the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) “was the ‘visible hand’ that guaranteed the movable feast” (p. 14) by setting the conditions and orchestrating resources in order to shift the wholesaling food system into developments designed from scratch for the modern era. To tell this story, Tangires focuses on the role that the USDA played in the fight over the future of the urban wholesale market. The depth of research is extensive and often includes fascinating images and illustrations of USDA’s work. Tangires characterizes the development of food wholesale provisioning in terms of three eras, which also make up the three parts of the book. Each chapter provides examples from various cities, with the arcs of New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Baltimore wholesale markets described in bits and pieces throughout. A wide range of terms are used to refer to actors in the wholesale sector, reflecting the diversity of people involved in the industry and the dramatic shifts it underwent. The terms are primarily undefined, in part, because they were inconsistently used historically and because they evolved over time. Nonetheless, it can add confusion. The story primarily features white men, and Tangires notes their xenophobic Journal of Planning History","PeriodicalId":44738,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Planning History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1538513220959663","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43494851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Shantytown, USA: Forgotten Landscapes of the Working Poor","authors":"E. Goetz","doi":"10.1177/1538513220959666","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1538513220959666","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44738,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Planning History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1538513220959666","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43801348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Modern Coliseum: Stadiums and American CultureCity of Dreams: Dodger Stadium and the Birth of Modern Los Angeles","authors":"M. Galinsky","doi":"10.1177/1538513220946034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1538513220946034","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44738,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Planning History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1538513220946034","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45133155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Makers Mark: New Works Deepen the Field of Suburban History","authors":"Meredith Drake Reitan","doi":"10.1177/1538513220946035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1538513220946035","url":null,"abstract":"In the Afterword of Making Suburbia: New Histories of Everyday America, Margaret Crawford identifies three areas of research that expand our understanding of suburban landscapes in the United States. The first is a focus on individual voices. Through oral histories, biographical and ethnographic work, Crawford encourages us to “zoom in for close-ups” of our subjects’ lives (p. 383). She also argues that research centered on habitation—the interaction between the places that people occupy and the people who occupy those places—is more valuable than a focus on either of these aspects separately. In the context of suburbia, a study of habitation blends the analysis of housing production and consumption. In doing so, it offers insights into a domestic arena that is often assumed to be disconnected from the public realm. Finally, Crawford recommends that we study suburban imaginaries, where tangible and intangible experiences of the built environment coalesce into collective representations. Investigations that uncover the ingredients of these imaginaries enable us to know suburbia more deeply and to appreciate the complexities of specific places. The contributors to Making Suburbia address each of these themes individually and as a group. In Tastemaker: Elizabeth Gordon, House Beautiful and the Postwar American Home, Monica Penick deftly weaves together all three themes. TasteMaker is at once a biography, a history of domestic architecture, and a study in taste formation. The book’s principal subject is Elizabeth Gordon, the post–World War II editor of House Beautiful magazine. Born in Indiana in 1906, Gordon attended the University of Chicago in the 1920s. After a brief period teaching high school, she moved to New York City where she worked in an advertising agency and wrote freelance for magazines. Gordon focused her writing on housing and was eventually hired by Good Housekeeping where she became a “recognized authority” on the topic (p. 7). In 1941, Gordon was appointed editor in chief of House Beautiful, a role she held until 1964. Under Gordon’s leadership, the magazine’s circulation grew from less than 250,000 to close to a million, making it one of the most popular shelter magazines in the United States. The biographical focus on Gordon is somewhat complicated by how little we know about her life. Gordon left no diary, and despite significant professional accomplishments, she remains an elusive individual. The woman can only be understood through her work, and so, Penick sets out to find Elizabeth Gordon in the pages of House Beautiful. Journal of Planning History","PeriodicalId":44738,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Planning History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1538513220946035","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42486308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vienna’s Ringstrasse: A Spatial Manifestation of Sociopolitical Values","authors":"T. Winkler","doi":"10.1177/1538513220943146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1538513220943146","url":null,"abstract":"If we agree with Ananya Roy’s claim that planning’s epistemic roots are grounded in liberalism—which is riddled with inherent ethicopolitical tensions—then it might be worth our while to explore some of the spatial consequences of this grounding. The implementation of Vienna’s Ringstrasse serves as an excellent case example for such an exploration. On the one hand, it consists of an array of monumental public buildings that resemble material expressions of freedom and individuality. Yet, for this development to be realized in the first place, some form of intervention was necessary despite liberalism’s subscription to noninterventionism. Lessons learned from revisiting the Ringstrasse project might then prove illuminating for our contemporary era of “hyperliberalism.”","PeriodicalId":44738,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Planning History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1538513220943146","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47832341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Will Kyiv’s Soviet Industrial Districts Survive? A Study of Transformation, Preservation, and Demolition of Industrial Heritage in Ukraine’s Capital","authors":"A. Ponomaryova, Brent D. Ryan","doi":"10.1177/1538513220939092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1538513220939092","url":null,"abstract":"In the 1930s and 1940s, multiple five-year Soviet plans for national industrialization transformed Ukraine’s capital Kyiv (Russian Kiev) into a dramatic industrial metropolis. By 1960, Kyiv was a core industrial city with renovated prerevolutionary factories and massive new industrial enterprises. Ukraine’s 1991 independence threatened industrial complexes with demolition for retail, residential, and office uses. We examine Kyiv’s Soviet industrial legacy as prescribed in master plans of 1936 and 1947, and successive five-year plans. We profile five significant industrial complexes and their divergent fates today. We call for future transformations of Kyiv’s monumental Soviet industrial enterprises with enhanced awareness of heritage value.","PeriodicalId":44738,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Planning History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1538513220939092","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47034903","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}