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Jon C. Teaford

Social Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette

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Established · publishing since 1970
Urbanization and City PlanningAmerican Environmental and Regional HistoryAmerican History and CultureAmerican Constitutional Law and PoliticsRace, History, and American Society

Publications

177

Citations

1,512

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

56

Publishing since 1970

Research summary
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Jon C. Teaford studies American urban history, with a particular focus on the cities and suburbs of the Midwest and broader questions of how American cities and their surrounding suburbs developed, governed themselves, and related to state governments over the 20th century. His work often examines municipal governance, urban renewal, suburbanization, and regional development patterns across the United States.

American urban historySuburban development and governanceMidwest cities and regionsUrban renewal and redevelopmentCity-state government relations

Publication output peaked around 2020 with a burst of related books and chapters, but has slowed considerably in the years since, averaging less than one publication per year over the last five years.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 0.8/year recently
2017: 3 publications172018: 5 publications182019: 3 publications192020: 9 publications9202021: 3 publications21222023: 1 publication232024: 2 publications242025: 1 publication2526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Middle West review×3
  • Johns Hopkins University Press eBooks×2
  • ˜The œRegister - Kentucky Historical Society/˜The œregister of the Kentucky Historical Society×1
  • Ohio Valley history×1
  • The American Historical Review×1
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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