{"title":"Architecture, Planning, and Policy Around Two Spanish Trips to the Soviet Union: I Réunions Internationales des Architectes (1932) and V International Union of Architects Congress (1958)","authors":"María Cristina García-González, Salvador Guerrero","doi":"10.1177/00961442241247136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00961442241247136","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this article is to explore the diffusion of the USSR housing, planning, and architecture related to Spain in the transnational networks through the development of two international congress. The French magazine L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui organized a trip to the Stalinist Soviet Union in 1932. The aims were to stage the I Réunions Internationales d’Architectes (RIA) and to discover the progress of Soviet urban planning and housing after the First Five-Year Plan. At the time, Spain was a newly declared republic that was eyeing the situation in the international context as a reference for development. In 1948, the RIA was transformed into the International Union of Architects (IUA) and organized the second meeting in Moscow, the V IUA Congress, under the support of the Khrushchev regime in 1958. Spain was then a dictatorship attempting to overcome the international isolation of the Franco regime. The chronicles of these meetings show the contradictions and similarities of ideas at two very different points in time for both countries.","PeriodicalId":46838,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141110586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cars, Gardens, and Ruins: Making and Remaking the Motor City","authors":"Kenneth S. Alyass","doi":"10.1177/00961442241248577","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00961442241248577","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46838,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141108606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Whose Streets? Our Streets! . . . or Maybe Not? Legitimizing Racialized Gendered Policing in Modern Cities","authors":"Rhonda Y. Williams","doi":"10.1177/00961442241242492","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00961442241242492","url":null,"abstract":"“Whose streets? Our streets!” This special forum centered on The Streets Belong to Us: Sex, Race, and Police Power from Segregation to Gentrification conjures this popular urban protest chant that may (or may not) be familiar to many readers. While the response—“our streets!”—is forceful, it is far from a clear-cut truism or uncomplicated declaration. Herein, Fischer and five interlocutors discuss the historical and spatial complexities regarding who has a right to define, navigate, and regulate urban spaces. They take up the questions—to whom do the streets belong—by considering regimes of police power at the nexus of sex, moral reform, and so-called “troublesome” terrains in three twentieth-century U.S. cities. They also engage how, as Fischer states, law-enforcement practices of sexual policing decriminalized white womanhood while criminalizing Black womanhood, and thereby expanded police authority, racialized gendered state violence, carceral feminism, gentrification, and spatialized racial and economic inequalities.","PeriodicalId":46838,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140971288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Making the City: The Contested Shaping of Urban Life through Transit Investments","authors":"Yonah Freemark","doi":"10.1177/00961442241248579","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00961442241248579","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46838,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140981067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Police Power to Police Practice","authors":"DeAnza A. Cook","doi":"10.1177/00961442241242501","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00961442241242501","url":null,"abstract":"Understanding the everyday manifestations of systemic racism, cisheteropatriarchy, and unequal justice for oppressed women and femmes necessitates meaningful engagement with critical law enforcement studies—the study of why and how policing and punishment takes place in carceral societies. Anne Gray Fischer’s The Streets Belong to Us spells out why sexual policing matters for the history of political development, capitalist growth, and socioeconomic inequality in U.S. cities, like Boston, Atlanta, and Los Angeles. Ultimately, as Fischer’s work affirms, urban law enforcement forces have routinely greased the wheels of punitive governance and state violence under the auspices of maintaining control over a contested and shifting social order.","PeriodicalId":46838,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140657189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Walk on By: How We Know an Era Is Over","authors":"Wesley Hogan","doi":"10.1177/00961442241246055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00961442241246055","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46838,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140688171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Sex Wars: Prostitution, Carceral Feminists, and the Consolidation of Police Power","authors":"Jessica R. Pliley","doi":"10.1177/00961442241242500","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00961442241242500","url":null,"abstract":"Anne Gray Fischer’s The Streets Belong to Us makes an important contribution to the growing historiography of post-1970’s feminism in the United States. Her final chapter deftly explores the rise of what she calls “dominance feminists” who allied with police departments in their campaigns against commercial sex. However, this alliance overlooked the realities of on-the-ground policing and exacerbated the marginalization of Black women. Fischer’s analysis underscores the importance of centering Black women’s experiences and engaging with communities impacted by police harassment to inform more inclusive and effective feminist strategies.","PeriodicalId":46838,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140721156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gendered Anti-Blackness: Policing Black Women and the Making of the Modern City","authors":"Keona K. Ervin","doi":"10.1177/00961442241242499","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00961442241242499","url":null,"abstract":"The Streets Belong to Us makes a significant contribution to multiple fields, most principally the history of race, gender, sexuality, incarceration, and state violence in the United States. It is a definitive history of the changing nature of police power, and the ways that it defined, defended, and enforced the logics that undergirded racial segregation. Illuminating the significant degree to which urban policymaking and planning depended on state violence, Anne Fischer compels us to better appreciate the relation between the making and the remaking of the modern city and the consolidation of police power. To do so, we must see that this connection was made possible through the surveillance, harassment, and sexual criminalization of Black women. Women’s bodies, particularly Black women’s bodies, acted as the constitutive material that made up the very fabric of state power and racial segregation. Along with presenting an analysis of the racial and gendered dimensions of morals law enforcement, The Streets Belong to Us moves Black women out of the shadows of urban history by grounding the analysis within the intellectual production by Black feminist organizers and scholars. Their concept of gendered anti-Blackness proved indispensable to feminist antiviolence struggles of the late twentieth century.","PeriodicalId":46838,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140726518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Protection for Whom? Police Legitimacy and the Historical Origins of Carceral Feminism","authors":"Charlotte E. Rosen","doi":"10.1177/00961442241242502","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00961442241242502","url":null,"abstract":"In a reflection on Anne Gray Fischer’s The Streets Belong to Us, this article considers how her scholarship on sexual policing in 20th century America situates sexual policing and the state’s criminalization of women as central rather than supplemental to our broader understanding of policing. Fischer’s analysis demonstrates how police used sexual policing to bolster their authority amid threats to their legitimacy and to defend and protect a racially segregated patriarchal social order. Her research also uncovers the centrality of anti-Black and gendered policing to gentrification and urban economic revival. Finally, Fischer historicizes white dominance feminists’ partnership with law enforcement by demonstrating law enforcement’s historical (and racialized) decriminalization of white women’s public sexual lives. Fischer’s pathbreaking analysis suggests the need for historians of policing and the carceral state to view gender and sexuality as foundational to the construction of modern policing and the broader development of the racialized carceral state.","PeriodicalId":46838,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140737415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Built on Women’s Bodies: An Author’s Response","authors":"Anne Gray Fischer","doi":"10.1177/00961442241242503","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00961442241242503","url":null,"abstract":"Across the twentieth century, police were the enforcers of public space, determining which women would be targeted as problems to solve. Sexual policing—the targeting and legal control of people’s bodies and their presumed sexual activities—was considered a marginal and degraded use of public resources, maligned by officers and residents alike. And yet, amid the recurring crises of legitimacy for police during the scandalous enforcement of Prohibition and the social uprisings of the 1960s, the contested practice of sexual policing was also central to the legitimization and legalization of police power. The Streets Belong to Us is a spatial history of the development of urban police regimes as embattled authorities fought to seize and consolidate power. But embedded in that work is an argument that the formation of police power—like the formation of cities themselves—cannot be understood without accounting for gender and the interlocking hierarchies of race, class, and sexuality that make gender meaningful. Focusing on sexual policing, the most historically gendered arena of law enforcement, from Prohibition in segregated Jim Crow to the rise of broken windows policing in the gentrifying 1980s, I argue that police power and the modern city were built on women’s bodies.","PeriodicalId":46838,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140754913","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}