Economic History of Cities and Housing

Part I. Economic and Social History of Cities and Housing in Japan and Europe

1. Landowners and Tenant Farmers in the Process of Urban Formation: A Case Study of Amagasaki City, Hyogo Prefecture, 1937–1952
Akinobu Numajiri

2. Housing Reconstruction in War-Damaged Cities: The Creation and Distribution of Living Spaces in the Late 1940s Under Postwar Governmental Controls
Hiroshi Ono

3. Communal Unemployment Insurance in Wilhelminian Germany: A Case Study of the Greater Berlin Administration Union
Takahito Mori

4. The Short-Lived Revival of the Mechanical Engineering Industry in the Paris Region 1939–1958
Toshikatsu Nakajima

Part II. Book Reviews

5. Review of Shūichi Takashima, Toshi Kinkō no Kōchi Seiri to Chiiki Shakai: Tokyo-Setagaya no Kōgai Kaihatsu (Urban Development and Local Communities in Interwar Tokyo)
Akinobu Numajiri

6. Review of Tadashi Nakano, Tatsuyuki Karasawa and Ichirō Michishige (eds), 18 Seiki no Igirisu Toshikūkan o Saguru: Toshi “Runesansu” ron Saikō (Exploring Urban Space in Eighteenth-Century England: A Reappraisal of the Urban Renaissance Debate)
Minoru Yasumoto

7. Review of Yoshiyuki Morishita, Kindai Cheko Jūtaku Shakaishi: Shinkokka no Keisei to Shakaikōsō (Czech Housing Policy and Social History in the First Half of the Twentieth Century: Building the First Czechoslovak Republic)
Nodoka Nagayama

8. Review of Nodoka Nagayama, Doitsu Jyūtaku Mondai no Shakai Keizaishi teki Kenkyū: Fukushi Kokka to Hieiri Jyūtaku Kensetsu (Study on the Socio-economic History of Housing Problems in Germany: Welfare State and Non-profit Housing)
Satoshi Baba

Keywords: Economics, Economic History, Urban Economics, Social Policy