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John McCarthy <52q9mccarthy@gmail.com>
Robert Morris University

American Urban, City Planning, Community Development.

 
Address:   6001 University Blvd.
Moon Twp., Pennsylvania 15108
United States
 
Primary Phone:   412-397-5412
 
List Affiliations: List Editor for H-Urban
 
Interests: U.S. History and Culture
Urban History / Studies
 
Bio:

B.A. Bethany College, W.V. 1997
M.A. Marquette University, 1999
Ph.D. Marquette University, 2005


Books:
Milwaukee Mightier: Planning and the Politics of Growth, 1910-1960," Northern Illinois University Press, 2009.


Selected Presentations:

“Before the Bulldozer: ‘Satellite City’ Planning and Suburban and Rural Opposition” Second Biennial Urban History Association Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 9, 2004.

"Urban Renewal by way of Planned Dispersal: City Planning and Civil Defense in Post-World War II Milwaukee," Newberry Library Urban History Dissertation Seminar, Chicago, Illinois, March 24, 2004.

"The Great Race: Annexation Wars in Postwar Milwaukee and the Rise of Suburban Sprawl,” National Conference on Planning History, St. Louis, Missouri, November 8, 2003.

“Memory and Perception of Suburban Growth and Urban Decline,” Marquette University Graduate Seminar, February 21, 2003.

“Civil Defense and the Decentralizing City: The Suburbanization of Milwaukee, Wisconsin,” Northern Great Plains History Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 10, 2002.

“Decentralizing the City: Frank Zeidler, the Board of Public Land Commissioners and the Suburbanization of Milwaukee, Wisconsin,” First Biennial Urban History Association Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, September 26-28, 2002
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