Articles — Francesca Russello Ammon

Francesca Russello Ammon, “Urban Renewal through Rehabilitation and Restoration,” in The Many Geographies of Urban Renewal: New Perspectives on the Housing Act of 1949, ed. Douglas R. Appler (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2023), 195-216.

Francesca Russello Ammon and Wendell E. Pritchett, “The Long History of Unfair Housing, from Reconstruction to the Fair Housing Act,” in Perspectives on Fair Housing, eds. Vincent Reina, Wendell E. Pritchett, and Susan Wachter (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020).

Francesca Russello Ammon, “Reversing the Tide of Suburban Families? The Design, Marketing, and Occupancy of Urban Renewal’s High-rise Housing,” Journal of Planning History 19, no. 4 (2020).

Francesca Russello Ammon, “Picturing Preservation and Renewal: Photographs as Planning Knowledge in Society Hill, Philadelphia” Journal of Planning Education and Research 42, no. 3 (2022; OnlineFirst Dec 2018), OnlineFirst.

Francesca Russello Ammon, “Resisting Gentrification Amid Historic Preservation: Society Hill, Philadelphia and the Fight for Low-Income Housing,” Change Over Time 8, no. 1 (Spring 2018): 8-31.

Francesca Russello Ammon, “Digital Humanities and the Urban Built Environment: Preserving the Histories of Urban Renewal and Historic Preservation,” Preservation Education and Research 10 (2018): 11-30.

Francesca Russello Ammon, with photographs by Clara Gutsche and David Miller, “Captioning Milton-Parc,” in What You Can Do with the City (Canadian Centre for Architecture), October 20, 2017.

Francesca Russello Ammon, “Urban Renewal,” Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia (2016).

Francesca Russello Ammon, “Post-Industrialization and the City of Consumption: Attempted Revitalization in Asbury Park, New Jersey,” Journal of Urban History 41:2 (March 2015): 158-174.

Francesca Russello, Ammon, “Unearthing Benny the Bulldozer: The Culture of Clearance in Postwar Children’s Books,” Technology and Culture 53:2 (April 2012): 306-336.

Francesca Russello Ammon, “Commemoration Amid Criticism: The Mixed Legacy of Urban Renewal in Southwest Washington, D.C.,” Journal of Planning History 8:3 (August 2009): 175-220.

Francesca Russello Ammon, “Refuge, Resort, and Ruin: Real Estate Development and the Identity of Asbury Park, New Jersey,” in Liberty and Leisure in North America (Loisir et Liberté en Amérique du Nord), ed. Pierre Lagayette (Paris: Presses de l’Université Paris-Sorbonne, 2008): 41-57.

BOOK REVIEWS

Review of From Steel to Slots: Casino Capitalism in the Postindustrial City, by Chloe E. Taft (U. of Chicago Press, 2016), Buildings and Landscapes 24, no. 2 (Fall 2017): 118-120.

Review of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, by Richard Rothstein (Livewright/W.W. Norton, 2017), Chronicle of Higher Education, July 30, 2017.

Review of Obsolescence: An Architectural History, Daniel M. Abramson (U. of Chicago Press, 2016), Preservation Education and Research 9 (2017): 111-112.

Review of Demolition Means Progress: Flint, Michigan, and the Fate of the American Metropolis, by Andrew R. Highsmith (U. of Chicago Press, 2015), Journal of American History 103, no. 1 (June 2016): 216-217.

Review of Fighting Westway: Environmental Law, Citizen Activism, and the Regulatory War that Transformed New York City, by William W. Buzbee (Cornell U. Press, 2014), Planning Perspectives 30, no. 4 (2015): 667-669.

Review of Pastoral and Monumental: Dams, Postcards, and the American Landscape, by Donald C. Jackson (U. of Pittsburgh Press, 2013), Technology and Culture 55, no. 4 (October 2014): 1012-14.

Review of Untimely Ruins: An Archaeology of American Urban Modernity, 1819-1919, by Nick Yablon (U. of Chicago Press, 2010), Technology and Culture 52, no. 4 (October 2011): 828-829.