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...Linda Shopes ©Copyright October 1981, by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1981 The Baltimore Neighborhood Heritage Project: Oral History and Community Involvement Linda Shopes...

...Van Gosse 1991 ”To Organize in Every Neighborhood, in Every Home”: The Gender Politics of American Communists between the Wars Van Gosse Recently, historians of the U.S. working class have recognized...

...Marco Armiero At the end of nineteenth century, the city of Naples, Italy was hit by a cholera epidemic that affected the fishers' neighborhoods that lined the seaboard with special intensity. As a consequence of the epidemic, the area was transformed from a poor neighborhood inhabited by fishers...

..., and particularly downtown businesses, economically competitive. Highway plans targeted African American and, to a lesser extent, working-class white neighborhoods. Because it destroyed community resources, limited housing options, and caused general degradation in surrounding neighborhoods, residents saw...

..., gender, and sexuality emblematized by the rise of identity-based neighborhood politics throughout the postwar period, and how these politics interface with the reterritorialization of the welfare state and the advent of community policing. The article historicizes several Stonewall-era gay organizations...

... District enabled these artists to address Latino viewers in the neighborhood and, through the projections of text from migrants' testimonies, to claim public space and challenge both city and federal agents' surveillance of Latinos. The artists occupied these spaces as a form of “counterspectacle,” a means...

... historical narratives that reconstruct the forgotten past for a forgetful present—to invent traditions for societies no longer able to access the collective memories (rather than constructed histories) that characterized rural communities and urban neighborhoods in previous eras. In contrast, recent Mexican...

...—in which existing tours have missed opportunities to redefine the legal and the criminal. Rebecca Amato notes how sensationalist crime tours in New York have obscured more challenging legal histories of gentrification and property laws that allow for displacement of poor immigrant neighborhoods. Jeffrey...

...Eva Giloi As Germany's cities ballooned in size in the late nineteenth century, new urban technologies expanded the mobility of modern urbanites — except for bourgeois boys. With city neighborhoods taken over by traffic, increasing the danger of injury to children playing in the streets, middle...

...Don Romesburg The GLBT History Museum's 2011 opening in San Francisco's Castro neighborhood was the culmination of over a quarter century of collecting, preserving, and interpreting the Bay Area's queer history. The museum is a project of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender (GLBT) Historical...

...Joe Doyle 1984 Chelsea History Day Joe Doyle Chelsea is a Lower West Side Manhattan neighborhood with a rich working-class history (notoriously associated with the now defunct Hudson River docks) and a romantic upper-class history...

... to reach their positions in the struggle over construction of the Yerba Buena Center. It looks at the patterns of economic development that produced neighborhoods like the South of Market (SoMa) district, where Woolf and other elderly working-class men lived, and explores the ways that these men used...

... mechanized model of the downtown area, a life-size refurbished row house and yard, and placards of school- childrens’ redrawn neighborhoods, the Exhibition sought to stir Phila- delphians’ imagination about the quality of their environment and the possibilities for shaping its future through...

... it and a rare glimpse of the human costs of urban renewal and neighborhood destruction. It records the effects of corporate-led redevelopment on a working class community, accurately describes the working class residents’ view of the experience, and places the en- tire process within the larger...

... On May 6, 2002, members of the Christopher Street Patrol, a safe streets orga- nization in New York City’s Greenwich Village neighborhood, joined Residents in Distress (or RID, a name inspired by a popular insecticide) and local politicians in a rally called “Take Back Our Streets” in Christopher...

... Jewish families, who came to Providence between 1880 and 1914 and settled in the ethnic neighborhoods of Federal Hill and Smith Hill. These families were drawn from the 1915 Rhode Island state census and traced through state censuses, city directories, and birth...

... continued to this day. It remains the favored English-language means of referring to areas—be they certain blocks, stretches of road, or whole neighborhoods—associated with prostitution and other types of sexual commerce. Although originally a US usage, it has transcended both national and chronological...

... ALBINA NEIGHBORHOOD The Columbia Slough and the North Portland Peninsula, Portland, Oregon. This map illustrates important locations on the North Portland Peninsula and along the lower Columbia Slough. Map by Maria Buhigas. TROUBLED WATERS IN ECOTOPIA...

... — each member seeing in the murals something different, even disparate, to accept. As Pat Gomez’s statement suggests, the laws regarding “vandalism” have not changed, but the neighborhood has, along with what type of murals its residents and stakeholders see as suitable. Painting the Sunset...