Robert B. Fairbanks

Professor & 
Department Chair

Address:      Department of History
                     Box 19529
                     University of Texas at Arlington
                     Arlington, Texas 76019-0529

Telephone:  (817) 272-2862

E-Mail:        Fairbank@uta.edu

Fax:             817-272-2852

Educational Background

B.A. 1972 Greenville College (Greenville, IL)
                  Major: History-Political Science
M.A. 1974 Indiana State University
                  Major: American History
Ph.D. 1981 University of Cincinnati
                  Major: American Urban History (Advisor, Prof. Zane L. Miller)

Experience

1998- Professor of History, University of Texas at Arlington
1989-98 Associate Professor of History, University of Texas at Arlington
1983-89 Assistant Professor of History, University of Texas at Arlington
1981-83 Visiting Assistant Professor of History, University of Texas at Arlington
1976-80 Instructor of History, Summer Session, University of Cincinnati
1975-76 Instructor of History-Political Science, Greenville College

Teaching Responsibilities

History 1311: American History to 1865
History 1312: American History since 1865
History 3300: Approaches to the Study of History
History 3351: History of the Dallas-Ft. Worth Metroplex
History 3362: U.S. Urban History
History 4388: Anglo/American Urban History
History 5302 The Modern City (Graduate Course)
History 5303: Colloquium in Urban History (Graduate Course)
History 5321: The Urban Frontier (Graduate Course)
History 5322: Seminar in 20th Century American Urban History (Graduate Course)
History 5345: Introduction to Public History

Editorial Positions

Editor for the Americans,
      Planning Perspectives:
             An International Journal of History, Planning and the Environment, 1999-

American Book Review Editor,
       Planning Perspectives, 1989-1999

Publications

Books:

       For the City as a Whole: 
              Politics, Planning and the Public Interest in Dallas,1900-1965
                (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1998), 324 pp.

      Making Better Citizens:
            Housing Reform and the Community Development Strategy in Cincinnati, 1890-1960  
                (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988), 243 pp.

Edited Books:

      Making Sense of the City: Local Government, Civic Culture, and Community Life in Urban America 
                 (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2001) , 192 pp

      Essays on Sunbelt Cities and Recent Urban America, 
                (College Station, TX: Texas A & M Press, 1999). 
                Co-edited with Kathleen Underwood, 176 pp.

Essays/Chapters in Books:

         "Boosterism, Reform and Planning in Dallas in the 1920s and 1930s,” 
in Major Problems in Texas History.  Edited by Sam W. Haynes and Cary D. Wintz 
(Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2001), pp. 360-370.

        “Advocating City Planning in Public Schools: The Chicago and Dallas Experiences, 1911-1928.” 
in Making Sense of the City:  Local Government, Civic Culture, and Community Life in Urban America. 
Edited by Robert B. Fairbanks and Patricia Mooney-Melvin 
(Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2001), pp. 57-74.

      "From Better Dwellings to Better Neighborhoods:
           The Rise and Fall of the First National Housing Movement,"
                 in American Housing Policy: From the Tenement to the Taylor Homes.  
                Edited by John F. Bauman, Roger Biles, and Kristin M. Szylvian 
                (University Park: Penn State University Press, forthcoming, fall 2000).

      "Responding to the Airplane: 
           Urban Rivalry, Metropolitan Regionalism and Airport Development in Dallas, 1927-1965’" 
                in Technical Knowledge in America: 
                            Science, Technology, and Medicine Since the Early 1800s.  
                Edited by Hamilton Cravens, Alan I Marcus, and David M. Katzman. 
                (Tuscaloosa: University Of Alabama Press, 1996), pp. 171-188.

      "Planning, Public Works and Politics: Dallas’s Trinity River Reclamation Project,"    
                in Planning the Twentieth-American City:  
                Edited by Mary Corbin Sies and Christopher Silver. 
                (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), pp. 187-212.

      "Cincinnati Blacks and the Irony of Low-Income Housing Reform" 
                in Race and the City: Work, Community, Housing, and Protest in Cincinnati, 1820-1970.
                Edited by Henry Louis Taylor, Jr. 
                (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993), pp. 193-208.

      "A Clash of Priorities: 
           The Federal Government and Dallas Airport Development, 1917-1964,"
                in Urban Cities and Towns: Historical Perspectives,
                edited by Joseph F. Diskel, 
                (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1992), pp. 164-184.

      "The Good Government Machine: 
           The Citizens' Charter Association and Dallas Politics, 1930-1960," 
                in Essays on Sunbelt Cities and Recent Urban America, 
                (College Station, TX: Texas A & M Press, 1990), pp. 125-150.

      "Dallas in the 1940s: The Challenges and Opportunities of Defense Mobilization"
                in Urban Texas: Politics, Development and Race  
                Edited by Char Miller and Heywood Sanders 
                (College Station: Texas A & M, 1990), pp. 141-153.

      With Zane L. Miller, "The Martial Metropolis: 
           Housing, Planning, and Race in Cincinnati, 1940-55," 
                in The Martial Metropolis: U.S. Cities in War and Peace. 
                Edited by Roger W. Lotchin
                (New York: Praeger, 1984), pp. 191-222.

Journal Articles and Essays:

       “The Failure of Urban Renewal in the Southwest: From City Needs to Individual Right’s” 
               Western Historical Quarterly 37 (Autumn 2006): 303-325.

       “Harland Bartholomew and the Planning of Modern Dallas,” 
                Legacies: A History Journal for Dallas and North Central Texas (Fall 2003): 34-49.

       “The Texas Exception: San Antonio and Urban Renewal, 1949-1965,” 
                Journal of Planning History 1 (May 2002):181-196.

      "Public Housing for the City as a Whole: The Texas Experience, 1934-1955,” 
                Southwestern Historical Quarterly  104 (April 2002): 403-424.

      "Rethinking Urban Problems: 
           Planning, Zoning and City Government in Dallas, 1900-1930," 
                Journal of Urban History (September 1999 ): 809-837.

      "Making Better Citizens in Dallas: 
           The Kessler Plan Association and Consensus Building in the 1920s,"
                 Legacies: A History Journal for Dallas and North Central Texas  
                 ( Fall 1999): 26-36.

      "The Assassination and Dallas Politics: Changes to Continuity," 
                 Legacies: A History Journal for Dallas and North Central Texas  
                 ( Fall 1998):14-23.

      "Regional Cities or a Region of Cities?" 
                  Reviews in American History  (June 1994): 300-304.

      "Greenhills: Model for Metropolitan Development,"
                 Queen City Heritage: The Journal of the Cincinnati Historical Society 
                  (Fall 1990 ): 3-14.

      "From Consensus to Controversy: The Rise and Fall of Public Housing in Dallas,"
                 Legacies: A History Journal for Dallas and North Central Texas I 
                 (Fall 1989): 37-43.

      "Metropolitan Planning and Downtown Redevelopment: 
           The Cincinnati and Dallas Experiences, 1940-1960." 
                  Planning Perspectives 2 (Sept. 1987): 237-53.

       "From Better Dwellings to Better Community: 
           Changing Approaches to the Low-Cost Housing Problem, 1890-1920,"
                  Journal of Urban History XI (May 1985): 314-334.

       "Housing the City: The Better Housing League and Cincinnati, 1916-1939,"
                  Ohio History LXXIX (Spring 1980): 157-180.

       "Cincinnati and Greenhills: 
            The Response to a Federal Community, 1935-1939,"
                 Cincinnati Historical Society Bulletin, XXXVI (Winter1978): 223-241.

RECENT CONSULTING

       Consultant, Old Red Museum of Dallas County History and Culture, 2001-2004

       Consultant and Expert Witness for City of Dallas in Lopez et. Al. v. City of Dallas, 2005-2006

       Consultant and Expert Witness for City of Dallas in Charles Miller et. Al. v. City of Dallas, 2001-2002