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VIEWPOINT: Fieldwork, Mind, and Building by Jeffrey E. Klee
OBJECT LESSON: Monuments and Memory in Charlottesville by Louis P. Nelson; A Mission among the Navajo: The Vica, and Architect, and Unforeseen Ghosts by Karla Cavarra Britton
ARTICLES: Beyond the American Foursquare: The Square House in Period Perspective by Evelyn Montgomery; Restyling the Postwar Prefab: The National Homes Corporation’s Revolution in Home Merchandising by Marisa Gomez Nordyke
RESEARCH NOTES: Understanding the Physical Poetry of a Parallel American Dream by Travis McDonald
REVIEW: Slavery in the City: Architecture and Landscapes of Urban Slavery in North America by Clifton Ellis and Rebecca Ginsburg Review by Lydia Mattice Brandt; Smell Detectives: An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America by Melanie Kiechle Review by Nicolas Kenny; Modern Coliseum: Stadiums and American Culture by Benjamin D. Lisle Review by J. Philip Gruen; The Strip: Las Vegas and the Architecture of the American Dream by Stefan Al Review by Chester Liebs; Builders, Housewives, and the Construction of Modern Athens by Ioanna Theocharopoulou Review by Eliana Abu-Hamid; Waterways and the Cultural Landscape by Fancesco Vallerani and Francesco Visentin Review by Guilio Verdini; Curated Decay: Heritage Beyond Saving by Caitlin Desilvey and Counterpreservation: Architectural Decay in Berlin Since 1989 by Daniela Sandler Review by Michael R. Allen

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Editors’: Editor’s Note by Anna Vemer Andrzejewski
ARTICLES: Abbot Lowell Cummings, 1923-2017 by Richard M. Candee; “General Grant Isn’t Coming Back”: Local Economics, Politics, and Historic Preservation in Galena, Illinois, 1964-1981 by Patrick Allan Pospisek; “This is Ivy City”: An Iconic Building’s Role in Gentrification and Neighborhood Identity in Washington, D.C. by Rebecca Summer; “Part of Who We Are”: Using Old Buildings to Foster Citizenship in North Africa (Oran, Algeria, and Casablanca, Morocco) by Diana Wylie; Working the Delaware Estuary: African American Cultural Landscapes and the Contours of Environmental Experience by Michael J. Chiarappa
REVIEW: City of Refuse: Separatists and Utopian Town Planning by Michael J. Lewis Review by Carl Abbot; California Mission Landscapes: Race, Memory, and the Politics of Heritage by Elizabeth Kryder-Reid Review by Paul J. P. Sandul; Freedom and the Cage: Modern Architecture and Psychiatry in Central Europe, 1890-1914 by Leslie Topp Review by Sarah Leavitt; National Park Roads: A Legacy in the American Landscape by Timothy Davis Review by William Wyckoff; Europe Meets America: Willam Lescaze, Architect of Modern Housing by Gaia Caramellino, Translated by Marella Feltrin-Morris Review by Kristin E. Larsen; Homeland: Zionism as Housing Regime, 1860-2011 by Yael Allweil Review by Noam Shoked; Easy On, Easy Off: The Urban Pathology of America’s Small Towns by Jack Williams Review by Timothy Davis; Detroit Is No Dry Bones: The Eternal City of the Industrial Age by Camilo Jose Vergara Review by David Schalliol; The Roots of the Urban Renaissance: Gentrification and Struggle over Harlem by Brian D. Goldstein Review by Marisa Angell Brown; All the Queens Houses by Rafael Herrin-Ferri Review by Joseph Sciorra; Housekeeping By Design: Hotels and Labor by David Brody Review by Lisa Pfueller Davidson; The Rule of Logistics: Walmart and the Architecture of Fulfillment by Jesse LeCavalier Review by Mark Gillem; Airport Urbanism: Infrastructure and Mobility in Asia by Max Hirsch Review by Owen Gutfreund

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VIEWPOINT: Introducing Environmental History into Vernacular Architecture: Considerations from New England’s Historic Dams by C. Ian Stevenson
OBJECT LESSON: “Build the Negro houses near together”: Thomas Jefferson and the Evolution of Mulberry Row’s Vernacular Landscape by Gardiner Hallock
ARTICLE: One Standardized House for All: America’s Little House by Kristina Borrman; Light on the Land: Construction Revolution in Farm Buildings of the Northern Rockies, 1890–1910 by Maire O’Neill Conrad
RESEARCH NOTES: Towards a History of the Suburban Driveway by David Salomon
REVIEWS: Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City by Catherine McNeur. Review by Lisa Goff.; Old Wheelways: Traces of Bicycle History on the Land by Robert L. McCullough. Review by Evan Friss.; Shantytown, USA: Forgotten Landscapes of the Working Poor by Lisa Goff. Review by James Michael Buckley.; Hope in Hard Times: Norvelt and the Struggle for Community During the Great Depression by Timothy Kelly, Margaret Power, and Michael Cary. Review by Kristin M. Szylvian.; Capturing the City: Photographs from the Streets of St. Louis, 1900-1930 by Joseph Heathcott and Angela Dietz. Review by Rebekah Burgess Abramovich.; Bulldozer: Demolition and Clearance of the Postwar Landscape by Francesca Russello Ammon. Review by Mary Rocco.; Developing Expertise: Architecture and Real Estate in Metropolitan America by Sara Stevens. Review by Ocean Howell.; A World of Homeowners: American Power and the Politics of Housing Aid by Nancy H. Kwak. Review by Max Hirsh.; Practicing Utopia: An Intellectual History of the New Town Movement by Rosemary Wakeman. Review by Mark Clapson.; What Can and Can’t Be Said: Race, Uplift, and Monument Building in the Contemporary South by Dell Upton. Review by Sarah Beetham.; From Steel to Slots: Casino Capitalism in the Postindustrial City by Chloe E. Taft. Review by Francesca Russello Ammon.; Food and the City: Histories of Culture and Cultivation, Dorotheé Imbert, editor. Review by Catherine McNeur.; Canada: Modern Architectures in History by Rhodri Windsor Liscombe and Michelangelo Sabatino. Review by Isabelle Gournay.

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ARTICLES: From Ritual to Protest: Sukkot in the Garden of Hope by Gabrielle Anna Berlinger; The Coed’s Predicament: The Martha Cook Building at the University of Michigan by Carla Yanni; Placing Radio in Sackville, New Brunswick by Michael Windover; Light on the Land: Construction Revolution in Farm Buildings of the Northern Rockies, 1890–1910 by Maire O’Neill Conrad
RESEARCH NOTES: Design for Mobility. Intercity Bus Terminals in the Puget Sound Region by Jeffrey Karl Ochsner and David A. Rash
REVIEWS: Architecture and Empire in Jamaica by Louis P. Nelson. Review by Edward Chappell.; Selling Paris: Property and Commercial Culture in the Fin-de-siècle Capital by Alexia M. Yates. Review by Isabelle Gournay; The Mutual Housing Experiment: New Deal Communities for the Urban Middle Class by Kristin M. Szylvian. Review by John F. Bauman.; The Suburban Church: Modernism and Community in Postwar America by Gretchen Buggeln. Review by Victoria M. Young.; Obsolescence: An Architectural History by Daniel M. Abramson. Review by Brian D. Goldstein.; Zoo Renewal: White Flight and the Animal Ghetto by Lisa Uddin. Review by John M. Kinder.; Making Suburbia: New Histories of Everyday America, John Archer, Paul J. P. Sandul, and Katherine Solomonson, editors. Review by Mary Corbin Sies.; Last Project Standing: Civics and Sympathy in Post-welfare Chicago by Catherine Fennell. Review by Lawrence J. Vale.; Ethno-Architecture and the Politics of Migration, Mirjana Lozanovska, editor. Review by Michael Rios.

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PRESERVATION FORUM: Peopling Preservation: A Forum in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 by Cynthia G. Falk and Anna Vemer Andrzejewski; “It’s Not the Location; It’s the Institution”: The New Politics of Historic Preservation within the Heritage Tourism Economy by Davarian L. Baldwin; Preservation and Negotiation of History and Identity in Lexington, Kentucky by Bryan D. Orthel; Interiors, Histories, and the Preservation of Chicago’s Hull House Settlement by Erin Cunningham
ARTICLES: The Grid Comes Home: Wiring and Lighting the American Farmhouse by Sarah Rovang; American Crossroads: General Motors’ Midcentury Campaign to Promote Modernist Urban Design in Hometown U.S.A. by Nathaniel Robert Walker
RESEARCH NOTES: The Photographic Construction of Urban Renewal in Fargo, North Dakota by Mike Christenson
REVIEWS: The Chesapeake House: Architectural Investigation by Colonial Williamsburg, Cary Carson and Carl R. Lounsbury, editors. Review by Kathryn E. Wilson; Hitler at Home by Despina Stratigakos. Review by Annmarie Adams; Detached America: Building Houses in Postwar Suburbia by James A. Jacobs. Review by Barbara Miller Lane; Houses for a New World: Builders and Buyers in American Suburbs 1945–1965 by Barbara Miller Lane. Review by Richard Longstreth; The Camaro in the Pasture: Speculations on the Cultural Landscape of America by Robert B. Riley. Review by Elihu Rubin; SubUrbanisms: Casino Urbanization, Chinatowns, and the Contested American Landscape, Stephen Fan, curator, and Chinese Style: Rediscovering the Architecture of Poy Gum Lee, 1923-1968, Kerri Culhane, curator. Review by June Williamson; Re-Collecting Black Hawk: Landscape, Memory, and Power in the American Midwest, Nicolas A. Brown and Sarah E. Kanouse, editors. Review by Justin M. Carroll; Book for Architects, Wolfgang Tillmans, curator. Review by Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani

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Viewpoint: Teaching Buildings and Landscapes to Today’s Undergraduates: Beyond the Classroom by Gretchen Townsend Buggeln
Object Lesson: “All the Help I Needed, I Got Here”: Miami’s Freedom Tower and the Freedom Tower’s Miami by Mauricio F. Castro; Motive Power: Fans, Punkahs, and Fly Brushes in the Antebellum South by Dana Byrd; A Female Sanctuary on the Former Western Front: The Gold Star Pilgrimage Rest Houses in France, 1930–33 by Allison S. Finkelstein; Race and Contested Rural Space in the Missouri Delta: African American Farm Workers and the Delmo Labor Homes, 1940–51 by Heidi Dodson
Reviews: Wasteland: A History by Vittoria Di Palma. Review by Louis P. Nelson.; A City for Children: Women, Architecture, and Charitable Landscapes of Oakland, 1850–1950 by Marta Gutman. Review by Paula Lupkin.; The Working Man’s Green Space: Allotment Gardens in England, France, and Germany, 1870–1919 by Micheline Nilsen. Review by Marie Warsh.; Purging the Poorest: Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities by Lawrence J. Vale. Review by Jennifer Hock.; Into the Void Pacific: Building the 1939 San Francisco World’s Fair by Andrew M. Shanken. Review by Robert W. Rydell.; Looking Beyond the Icons: Midcentury Architecture, Landscape, and Urbanism by Richard Longstreth. Review by David Smiley.; Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment by Henri Lefebvre, edited by Łukasz Stanek, translated by Robert Bononno. Review by Olga Touloumi.; The City Lost & Found: Capturing New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, 1960–1980 edited by Katherine A. Bussard, Alison Fisher, and Greg Foster-Rice. Review by Benjamin Holtzman.; ArchiPop: Mediating Architecture in Popular Culture edited by D. Medina Lasansky. Review by Sara Stevens.; The Remittance Landscape: Spaces of Migration in Rural Mexico and Urban USA by Sarah Lynn Lopez. Review by Helen Gyger.; New Architecture on Indigenous Lands by Joy Monice Malnar and Frank Vodvarka. Review by Peter Nabakov.; How to Read the American West: A Field Guide by William Wyckoff. Review by Cathleen D. Cahill.

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: Editor’s Note by Cynthia G. Falk
Viewpoint: Peculiar Places and Strange Guests: Obsolete Resorts in Some Mid-Twentieth Century Children’s Books by Kevin D. Murphy
Object Lesson: Thomas Hirschhorn’s Gramsci Monument: Negotiating Monumentality with Instability and Everyday Life by Luisa Valle
Articles: Charlottesville’s Landscape of Prostitution, 1880-1950 by Daniel Bluestone; Selling Spirituality and Spectacle: Religious Pavilions at the New York World’s Fair of 1964-1965 by Julie Nicoletta
Research Notes: The Hidden Cityscapes of Informal Housing in Suburban Los Angeles and the Paradox of Horizontal Density by Jake Wegmann
Reviews: Robert Morris’s Folly: The Architectural and Financial Failures of an American Founder by Ryan K. Smith. Review by Whitney Martinko; Building Zion: The Material World of Mormon Settlement by Thomas Carter. Review by Michael Ann Williams; House But No Garden: Apartment Living in Bombay’s Suburbs, 1898-1964 by Nikhil Rao. Review by Swati Chattopadhyay; Urban Appetites: Food and Culture in Nineteenth-Century New York by Cindy R. Lobel. Review by Theresa McCulla; Built with Faith: Italian American Imagination and Catholic Material Culture in New York City by Joseph Sciorra. Review by Cindy R. Lobel; Houses Without Names: Architectural Nomenclature and the Classification of America’s Common Houses by Thomas C. Hubka. Review by Chris Wilson; 100 Years of Design on the Land, exhibition curated by Robin Karson. Review by Catherine Seavitt Nordenson; A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida by N. D. B. Connolly. Review by Brian D. Goldstein; The Social Project: Housing Postwar France by Kenny Cupers. Review by Alexia Yates; Manhattan Atmospheres: Architecture, the Interior Environment, and Urban Crisis by David Gissen . Reviewed by Rohit T. Aggarwala; Commemorating and Forgetting: Challenges for the New South Africa by Martin J. Murray. Review by Jeremy Foster; Global Suburbs: Urban Sprawl from the Rio Grande to Rio de Janeiro by Lawrence A. Herzog. Review by Richard Harris; Vernacular Architecture and Regional Design: Cultural Process and Environmental Response by Kingston Wm. Heath. Review by Elaine B. Stiles
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: A Note from the Editors by Marta Gutman and Cynthia G. Falk; Letter to the Editors; American Railways and the Cultural Landscape of Immigration by Catherine Boland Erkkila; Schools for the Colored by Wendel A. White; Pedestrian Modern: Shopping and American Architecture, 1925-1956 by David Smiley. Review by Erica Allen-Kim; The Gateway Arch: A Biography by Tracy Campbell. Review by Adam Blahut; The Folklore of the Freeway: Race and Revolt in the Modernist City by Eric Avila. Review by Llana Barber; Covert Capital: Landscapes of Denial and the Making of U.S. Empire in the Suburbs of Northern Virginia by Andrew Friedman. Review by Chris Capozzola; Rethinking the American City: An International Dialogue edited by Miles Orvell and Klaus Benesch. Review by Matthew Gordon Lasner; Spatial History Project at Stanford University. Review By William S. Walker
Object Lesson: James Anderson Blacksmith Shop, 1986-2011: An Appreciation by Jeffrey E. Klee
Articles: “Brickmaker + Farmer” Damariscotta River Brick Making in the Nineteenth Century and the Traces of Maine’s Agro-Industrial Past by Jørgen G. Cleemann
Research Notes:: The Public Image of Dairying in the Late Twentieth Century: A Primary Source Trail by Sally McMurray
Reviews: Building a Market: The Rise of the Home Improvement Industry, 1914-1960 by Richard Harris. Review by Chad Randl

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Viewpoint: Buildings as Cultural Narratives: Interpreting African American Lifeways in a Montana Gold Mining Camp by Kingston Wm. Heath
Articles: Exile on the Commercial Strip: Vietnam War Memorials in Little Saigon and the Politics of Commemoration by Erica S. Allen-Kim
: “Look Who’s Designing Kitchens”: Personalization, Gender, and Design Authority in the Postwar Remodeled Kitchen by Chad Randl; Reediting the Architectural Past: A Comparison of Surviving Physical and Documentary Evidence on Maryland’s Eastern Shore by Orlando Ridout V; Crafting Lives: African American Artisans in New Bern, North Carolina, 1770–1900 by Catherine W. Bishir. Review by Ellen Weiss; The Springfield Gas Machine: Illuminating Industry and Leisure, 1860s–1920s by Donald W. Linebaugh. Review by Lucy B. Wayne; The Land Was Ours: African American Beaches from Jim Crow to the Sunbelt South by Andrew Kahrl. Review by Jeff Wiltse; Postcards from the Rio Bravo Border: Picturing the Place, Placing the Picture, 1900s–1950s by Daniel D. Arreo. Review by Mark C. Childs; Tokyo Vernacular: Common Spaces, Local Histories, Found Objects by Jordan Sand. Review by Chester H. Liebs
Research Notes: The Trials and Tribulations of Mapping Colonial Newport by Catherine W. Zipf
Reviews: Jonathan Fisher of Blue Hill, Maine: Commerce, Culture, and Community on the Eastern Frontier by Kevin D. Murphy. Review by Liam Riordan

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: A Note from the Editors
Viewpoint: New in Town: The California Garden Apartment in the 1960s
Articles: Architect as Developer and the Postwar U.S. Apartment, 1945–1960; Tradition, Culture, and Memory in a Foreign Land: The Housing Choices of Norwegian Immigrant Anna Christopherson Goulson; Architectures of West African Enslavement
Research Notes: Searching for Donum Montford: Methods and Mysteries in Researching an African American Artisan
Reviews: Little White Houses: How the Postwar Home Constructed Race in America by Dianne S. Harris; Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America by Richard White; Designing the Creative Child: Playthings and Places in Midcentury America by Amy F. Ogata; Manufacturing a Socialist Modernity: Housing in Czechoslovakia, 1945–1960 by Kimberly Elman Zarecor; Diálogos: Placemaking in Latino Communities, Michael Rios and Leonardo Vazquez, editors, with Lucrezia Miranda; Unlearning the City: Infrastructure in a New Optical Field by Swati Chattopadhyay; Photography and the American Civil War, exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, and catalog by Jeff L. Rosenheim

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: Editors’ Introduction by Marta Gutman and Cynthia G. Falk; Orlando Ridout V, October 13, 1953 – April 6, 2013 by Edward Chappell; “Leap and Shout Ye Living Building”: Ritual Performance and Architectural Collaboration in Early Shaker Meetinghouses by Arthur E. McLendon; “And Will You There a City Build”: The Moravian Congregation Town and the Creation of Salem, North Carolina by Christopher E. Hendricks; Mapping the Slave Trade in Richmond and New Orleans by Maurie D. McInnis; Segregation: A Global History of Divided Cities by Carl Nightingale. Review by Nancy Haekyung Kwak; Living Over the Store: Architecture and Local Urban Life by Howard Davis. Review by Richard Longstreth; In the Watches of the Night: Life in the Nocturnal City, 1820-1930 by Peter C. Baldwin. Review by Eric J. Morser; High Life: Condo Living in the Suburban Century by Matthew Gordon Lasner. Review by Ann Durkin Keating; Insuring the City: The Prudential Center and the Postwar Urban Landscape by Elihu Rubin. Review by James Michael Buckley
Viewpoint: Self-Construction, Vernacular Materials, and Democracy Building: Los Bestias, Lima, 1984–1987 by Dorota Biczel
Articles: The Impact of Sanitation Reform on the Farm Landscape in U.S. Dairying, 1890-1950 by Sally McMurry
Research Notes: Place in the Institutional Setting: Patient Constructed Buildings on the St. Peter Regional Treatment Center Campus by Sara Witty
Reviews: The Masons of Djenné by Trevor H. J. Marchand. Review by Mark Dike DeLancey

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: Editors’ Introduction; “Dreams of Oriental Romance”: Reinventing Chinatown in 1930s Los Angeles; Athens or Anarchy? Soapbox Oratory and the Early Twentieth-Century American City; Building Autonomy: A History of the Fifteenth Ward Hall of the Mormon Women's Relief Society; The Dunbar High School Dilemma: Architecture, Power, and the Struggle for African American Cultural Heritage; Sweet Cane: The Architecture of the Sugar Works of East Florida by Lucy B. Wayne; Robert R. Taylor and Tuskegee: An African American Architect Designs for Booker T. Washington by Ellen Weiss; Corn Palaces and Butter Queens: A History of Crop Art and Dairy Sculpture by Pamela H. Simpson; Saving Wright: The Freeman House and the Preservation of Meaning, Materials, and Modernity by Jeffrey M. Chusid; The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn: Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity in Postwar New York by Suleiman Osman; Pastoral Capitalism: A History of Suburban Corporate Landscapes by Louise A. Mozingo
Viewpoint: Latino Vernaculars and the Emerging National Landscape
Research Notes: George Thompson Garrison’s Shelter Tent
Reviews: Meetinghouses of Early New England by Peter Benes

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: Editors’ Introduction; Barabara G. Carson, 1941–2011: An Appreciation; Letter to the Editors; Mainstream and Marginal: Situating the American Roadside Photographs of John Margolies; The Danforth Chapel Program on the Public American Campus; A Cheerful and Comfortable Faith: Anglican Religious Practice in the Elite Households of Eighteenth-Century Virginia by Lauren F. Winner; The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan, 1811-2011: An exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York; A Joint Enterprise: Indian Elites and the Making of British Bombay by Preeti Chopra; Black Rock: A Zuni Cultural Landscape and the Meaning of Place by William A. Dodge; Fallout Shelter: Designing for Civil Defense in the Cold War by David Monteyne; At Home with Apartheid: The Hidden Landscape of Domestic Service in Johannesburg by Rebecca Ginsburg; Place, Race, and Story: Essays on the Past and Future of Historic Preservation by Ned Kaufman
Viewpoint: When Tourism is History: Travel and the Construction of the Past in Cooperstown, New York
Articles: Reunified, Rebuilt, Enlarged, or Rehabilitated: Deciphering Friends’ Complex Attitudes toward their Meeting Houses
Reviews: The Plazas of New Mexico by Chris Wilson and Stefanos Polyzoides, editors; Miguel Gandert, contemporary photography; José Zelaya, documentary drawings editor

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Articles: Viewpoint: Building Stories: Narrative Prospects for Vernacular Architecture Studies by Ryan K. Smith
: Introducing the Bathroom: Space and Change in Working-Class Houses by Alison K. Hoagland; The Floating Dwellings of Chong Kneas, Cambodia by Tijen Roshko; The New Urban Dining Room: Sidewalk Cafes in Postindustrial Philadelphia by Stephen E. Nepa; Violence and the Vernacular: Conflict, Commemoration and Rebuilding in the Urban Context by Sara McDowell and Catherine Switzer; Built from Below: British Architecture and the Vernacular, Peter Guillery editor. Review by Carl Lounsbury; The Jeffersons at Shadwell by Susan Kern. Review by Barbara J. Heath; The Great Valley Road of Virginia: Shenandoah Landscapes from Prehistory to the Present, Warren R. Hofstra and Karl Raitz, editors. Review by John Hankey; Washed with Sun: Landscape and the Making of White South Africa by Jeremy Foster. Review by Rebecca Ginsburg; Melodramatic Landscapes: Urban Parks in the Nineteenth Century by Heath Massey Schenker. Review by Eliza Earle Ferguson; The Once and Future New York: Historic Preservation and the Modern City by Randall Mason. Review by Carla Yanni; Killing for Coal: America’s Deadliest Labor War by Thomas G. Andrews. Review by Alison K. Hoagland; Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs by Ellen Dunham-Jones and June Williamson. Review by Jason Alexander Hayter; Census of Places that Matter by The Place Matters Project of City Lore and the Municipal Art Society. Review by Mike Christenson
Reviews: The Making of the American Landscape, Michael P. Conzen editor. Review by Chris Wilson

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Viewpoint:: “From the Unknown to the Known”: Transitions in the Architectural Vernacular
Articles: The Fabric of New York City’s Garment District: Architecture and Development in an Urban Cultural Landscape
: Ga-ne-tli-yv-s-di (Change) in the Cherokee Nation: The Vann and Ridge Houses of Northwest Georgia; Cultivating Citizens: The Children’s School Farm in New York City, 1902-1931; The Architecture of Madness: Insane Asylums in the United States by Carla Yanni; From Cameroon to Paris: Mousgoum Architecture in and out of Africa by Steven Nelson; Pride in Modesty: Modernist Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition in Italy by Michelangelo Sabatino; Manhood Factories: YMCA Architecture and the Making of Modern Culture by Paula Lupkin; Mine Towns: Buildings for Workers in Michigan’s Copper Country by Alison K. Hoagland; The American Department Store Transformed, 1920-1960 by Richard Longstreth; Cold War on the Home Front: The Soft Power of Midcentury Design by Greg Castillo; North Carolina Architects & Builders: A Biographical Dictionary Caroline W. Bishir, Markus Wust, Joseph Ryan, et al.
Research Notes:: Extract and comment on the diary of John Marshall, bricklayer, of Braintree, Massachusetts, 1697-1711
Reviews: Material Culture in Anglo-America: Regional Identity and Urbanity in the Tidewater, Lowcountry, and Caribbean edited by David S. Shields

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Editors’ Introduction: Editors’ Introduction
Viewpoint:: A Contemporary Vernacular: Latino Landscapes in California’s Central Valley
: Urban Slavery at Work: The Bellamy Mansion Compound, Wilmington, North Carolina; The Remittance House: Architecture of Migration in Rural Mexico; “The Walled City”: Industrial Flux in Red Hook, Brooklyn, 1840-1920 Malka Simon Building and Rebuilding Community: Discourse, Public Memory, and the Grand Opera House of Oshkosh, Wisconsi; Making Lahore Modern: Constructing and Imagining a Colonial City by William J. Glover; The Row House Reborn: Architecture and Neighborhoods in New York City, 1908-1929 by Andrew Scott Dolkart; Modernizing Main Street: Architecture and Consumer Culture in the New Deal by Gabrielle Esperdy; Ethnoburb: The New Ethnic Community in Urban America by Wei L; Cultural Landscapes: Balancing Nature and Heritage in Preservation Practice by Richard W. Longstreth, ed.
Book Reviews: Another City: Urban Life and Urban Spaces in the New American Republic by Dell Upton

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Editors’ Introduction: Editors’ Introduction
Features: Location, Occupation, Juxtaposition, Interpenetration: Notes on an Erotics of the Mining City
: “The Lighthouse Top I See”: Lighthouses as Instruments and Manifestations of State Building in the Early Republic; Indians at the Corn Palaces: Race and Reception at Two Midwestern Festival Buildings; A Fly in the Amber: Route 66 Architecture at Petrified Forest National Monument; Sex and the Single Building: The Weston Havens House, 1941-2001

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Editor’s Introduction: Editor’s Introduction
Viewpoint: The Balloon Frame, George Snow, Augstine Taylor, and All That: A View from Abroad
: The Pennsylvania Barn as a Collective Resource, 1830-1900; "So Majestic a Monument of Antiquity": Landscape, Knowledge, and Authority in the Early National W; Shotgun: The Most Contested House in America; Robert Adams and Colorado's Cultural Landscapes: Picturing Tradition and Development in the New West

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Editor's Introduction: Editor's Introduction
Features: Vernacular Architecture and Public History
: Bringing "Downtown" to the Neighborhoods: Wieboldt’s, Goldblatt’s, and the Creation of Department Store Chains in Chicago; Witnessing the In-visibility of Inca Architecture in Colonial Peru; Thirteen Factories of Canton: An Architecture of Sino-Western Collaboration and Confrontation; New York City’s Oyster Barges: Architecture’s Threshold Role along the Urban Waterfront; Refiguring the Colonial City: Recovering the Role of Local Inhabitants in the Construction of Colonial Bombay, 1854–1918

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