1. Patchwork Apartheid: Private Race Restrictions and the Architecture of Segregation in the Midwest • Colin Gordon, University of Iowa.

2. The Widened Hearthstone: Urban Playgrounds as the Infrastructure of Public Mothering, 1900-1930 • Alexandra Miller, George Mason University.

3. Clearing the Land: Chicago's Lake Meadows Redevelopment and the Antiblack Logics of Urban Renewal • Peter Kent-Stoll, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

4. Self-Reliance and Mutual Aid: The Intersection of Religion, Science, and Wealth in the Charity Organization Movement in the United States (1877-1920) • Shuhuan Ren, Peking University.