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Oxford Encyclopedia of American Urban History

The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Urban History synthesizes three generations of urban historical scholarship, providing a thematic and chronological overview of American urban history from the pre–Columbian era until the beginning decades of the twenty–first century. The synoptic articles collected in these two print volumes describe and analyze the transformation of the United States from a simple agrarian and small-town society to a complex urban and suburban nation. Each article has been authored, peer-reviewed, and edited by scholars and experts in the field, offering a reliable, historiographically informed examination of a specific subject in American urban history.

All the articles in this collection appear online as part of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History. To read Oxford Encyclopedia of American Urban History articles online, see the “Urban History” section of the ORE of American History. This section will continue to grow as the project expands.
 

Editor-in-Chief

Timothy J. Gilfoyle, Loyola University Chicago
 

Thematic Sections

Varieties of Urbanization

Political Economies

Informal Economies

Urban Migrations

Neighborhood, Community, and Space

Building the Metropolis

Nature and the Environment

The Social Fabric

Violence and Disorder

The Postwar and Postindustrial Metropolis

 
 

Articles

American Mass Culture, 1900–1945 (Daniel Borus)
Urban Planning in the United States since 1850 (Harold Platt)
The Black Freedom Struggle in the Urban North (Thomas J. Sugrue)
The Car and the City (David Blanke)
The Central Business District in American Cities (Emily Remus)
The City Beautiful Movement, 1890-1920 (John D. Fairfield)
The Civil Rights Movement in the Urban South (Claudrena N. Harold)
Climate Change and the American City (Andrew Hurley)
Company Towns in the United States (Hardy Green)
Contagious Disease and Public Health in the American City (Daniel Wilson)
Deindustrialization and the American Postindustrial City, 1950–present (Chloe E. Taft)
Drug Subcultures in the American City (Chris Elcock)
Ellis Island Immigration Station (Vincent J. Cannato)
Environmental and Conservation Movements in Metropolitan America (Robert R. Gioielli)
Ethnicity and US Neighborhoods (Jordan Stanger-Ross)
Food in the Twentieth-century American City (Adam Shprintzen)
Gambling in the Northern City: 1800 to 2000 (Matthew Vaz)
Globalization and the American City (B. Alex Beasley)
The Great Depression (Erik Gellman, Margaret Rung)
The Great Migration in Context: The Chicago Experience, 1916–1918 (Christopher R. Reed)
The Great Migration and Black Urban Life in the United States, 1914–1970 (Tyina Steptoe)
Housing Policy Across the United States (Kristin M. Szylvian)
Immigration to American Cities, 1800-1924 (Hidetaka Hirota)
Immigration to American Cities, 1924–2017 (Charlotte Brooks)
Industry, Commerce, and Urbanization in the United States, 1790–1870 (David Schley)
Japantown and the San Francisco Fillmore District (Clement Lai)
Latino Urbanism (A. K. Sandoval-Strausz)
National Urban Renewal (Christopher Klemek)
Poverty in the Modern American City (Ella Howard)
Prostitution in America (Jessica Pliley)
Public Housing in Urban America (D. Bradford Hunt)
Public Space in North American Cities (Jessica Ellen Sewell)
Mississippian Ancient Towns and Cities, 1000–1700 (Robbie Ethridge)
Same-Sex Love among Early American Women (Rachel Hope Cleves)
Seaport Cities in North America, 1600–1800 (Emma Hart)
Service Economies and the American Postindustrial City, 1950-present (Patrick Vitale)
Skyscrapers and Tall Buildings (Elihu Rubin)
Slavery in North American Cities (Leslie Harris)
Street Gangs in the Twentieth-century American City (Andrew Diamond)
The American City and Environmental Pollution (Brian J. McCammack)
United States Vagrancy Laws (Risa L. Goluboff, Adam Sorensen)
Universities and Information Centers in U.S. Cities (LaDale Winling)
Urban Exceptionalism in the American South (David Goldfield)
Urban Riots and Rioting in the United States, 1800–2000 (Alex Elkins)
Tourism and the American City since 1800 (J. Mark Souther)
White Internal Migration to American Cities, 1940-1980 (Chad Berry)