Urban Studies

How San Franciscans exploited natural resources such as redwood lumber to produce the first major metropolis of the American West.

The award-winning historian Mary P. Ryan offers a new vision of early American history that focuses on the contributions of cities and of West Coast Hispanic culture to the forging of an American system of democracy and capitalism.

Examines the role of architecture in the history of global development and decolonization.

An in-depth look at the diverging paths of Vietnamese American communities, or “Little Saigons,” in America’s built environment.

Thematically focused analaysis of modern architecture throughout Texas with gorgeous photographs illustrating works by famous and lesser-known architects.

A significant and deeply researched examination of the free nineteenth-century Black developers who transformed the cultural and architectural legacy of New Orleans.

A history of racism and segregation in twentieth-century Houston and beyond.

A history of San Francisco that studies change in the postwar urban landscape in relation to the city's queer culture.

A history of the activism that made public spaces in American cities more accessible to women.

The award-winning author of Texas, a Modern History and Galveston: A History presents the first comprehensive narrative of urban development in Texas from the Spanish Conquest to the present.