Recently added articles from Urban History Review:
Downtowns, past and present.(Essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... In the last two decades, analysts of urban change have focused on the evolution of metropolitan areas that have increasingly taken the form of "fragmented mixtures of employment and residential settings, combining urban and suburban characteristic." (1) Edge cities, edgeless cities, ...
Fighting for a radical city: student protesters and the politics of space in 1960s and 1970s downtown Manhattan.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... In the popular imagination, 1960s radicalism often appears as a national phenomenon that varied little from region to region. The case of downtown Manhattan during these years, however, challenges this assumption. Student radicals at New York University in Greenwich Village were just as ...
Ultramodern underground Dallas: Vincent Ponte's pedestrian-way as systematic solution to the declining downtown.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Mid last century, North American civil servants and urban planners and developers proffered inventive solutions to the problem of the declining downtown core. Robert Moses looked to super-block development and Title of the US Housing Act of 1949 to funnel federal dollars into urban renewal ...
The events city: Sport, culture, and the transformation of inner Melbourne, 1977-2006.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... In 2006 Melbourne, Australia, played host to an almost monthly lineup of major international sporting and cultural events: the Australian Open Tennis tournament, the Commonwealth Games and associated cultural festival, a Formula One Grand Prix, an International Flower and Garden Show, an ...
Redonner forme et vie au centre historique de Palerme (sicile). Retour sur une experience de developpment territoriale et de requalification urbaine (1993-2001).(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Le centre historique de Palerme a connu au lendemain du second conflit mondial un lent et inexorable processus de devitalisation sous Veffet conjoint de son depeuplement et de sa pauperisation. Sa requalification, engagee a Vinitiative du maire de centre-gauche Leoluca Orlando, a commence ...
The facelift and the wrecking ball: urban renewal and Hamilton's King Street West, 1957-1971.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Hamilton, Ontario, wanted a modernist makeover for its downtown during the 1960s. Politicians and businessmen aggressively sought federal and provincial urban renewal funds to rebuild the city's core. This research note focuses on Hamilton's King Street West, between James and Bay, which ...
Bocquet, Denis. Rome ville technique (1870-1925).(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009 ... Bocquet, Denis. Rome ville technique (1870-1925). Une modernisation conflictuelle de I'espace urbain. Rome, Ecole francaise de Rome, 2007, 440 p. Le livre Rome ville technique (1870-1925) de Denis Bocquet nous offre un bel exemple d'une analyse d'un objet technique, les egouts ...
Burley, David G., and Mike Maunder.(Living on Furby: Narratives of Home, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1880-2005)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009 ... Burley, David G., and Mike Maunder. Living on Furby: Narratives of Home, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1880-2005. Winnipeg: The Institute of Urban Studies, University of Winnipeg, 2008. Pp. 155. Illustrations, photographs, maps. The historical trajectories of inner city residential ...
Leloup, Xavier and Martha Radice, eds.(Les Nouveaux Territoires de l'Ethnicite)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009 ... Leloup, Xavier and Martha Radice, eds. Les nouveaux territoires de l'ethnicite. Quebec, Les Presses de I'Universite Laval, 2008. 286 p. As a specialist in Canadian immigration history, I read Les nouveaux territoires de l'ethnicite with great pleasure, thankful for an academic ...
Myers, Tamara. Caught: Montreal's Modern Girls and the Law, 1869-1945.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009 ... Myers, Tamara. Caught: Montreal's Modern Girls and the Law, 1869-1945. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. Pp. 345. Illustrations, photographs, charts. Tamara Myers' Caught is a complex and fascinating study of female juvenile delinquency in Montreal. Myers explores how ...
Penfold, Steve.(The Donut: A Canadian History)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009 ... Penfold, Steve. The Donut: A Canadian History. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008. Pp. 256. Illustrations, photographs, notes, index. ISBN: 978-0-8020-9797-2; Paper: 978-0-8020-9545-9. This review begins with a warning: reading this book will make you hunger for a donut ....
Correction.(Correction notice)
Mar 22, 2009 ... In the fall 2008 issue (volume 37, number 1), the author of The Freedom to Smoke: Tobacco Consumption and ...
Les ingenieurs sanitaires a Montreal, 1870-1945: lieux de formation et exercice de la profession.(history of sanitation workers in Montreal, Canada)(article in French and in English)(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Cet article a pour objet les ingenieurs sanitaires a Montreal depuis leur emergence, au [XIX.sup.e] siecle, jusqu' au milieu du siecle dernier. Peu etudies par les historiens de la medecine et, plus generalement, par les specialistes de l'histoire urbaine, ces experts ont pourtant joue un ...
Social gospel in the city: Rev. W. E. Gilroy and Hamilton Clergymen respond to labour issues, 1911-1918.(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... This paper examines clergymen's response to labour issues in early-twentieth-century Hamilton, Ontario. While the majority of Hamilton clergymen ignored the issue of labour, a small group of ministers, with Congregational minister W.E. Gilroy at the helm, established strong ties with ...
Old Home Week Celebrations as tourism promotion and commemoration: North Bay, Ontario, 1925 and 1935.(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... This paper examines Old Home Week Celebrations held in North Bay, Ontario, in 1925 and 1935 in terms of both tourism promotion and the public use of the past. Tourism promotion in 1925 reflected a booster attitude and the belief that North Bay would soon benefit from the construction of ...
Reform and empire: the case of winnipeg, manitoba, 1870s-1910s.(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a host of journalists, ministers, medical doctors, businessmen, lawyers, labour leaders, politicians, and others called for an assault on poverty, slums, disreputable boarding houses, alcoholism, prostitution, sweatshop conditions, ...
The Great War and Urban Life in Germany: Freiburg, 1914-1918.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Chickering, Roger. The Great War and Urban Life in Germany: Freiburg, 1914-1918. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xiv, 628. Illustrations, bibliography, index. In recent years, the historiography of the First World War has moved from the trenches to the home ...
Les origines populaires de l'economie sociale au Quebec.(book on Quebec socioeconomics by Martin Petitclerc)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Petitclerc, Martin. Nous protegeons I'infortune: Les origines populaires de l'economie sociale au Quebec. Montreal, VLB editeur, 2007. 278 p. Rares sont les ouvrages portant sur la mutualite au Quebec, encore plus rares ceux qui se penchent sur le processus d'emergence et de ...
Naitre, vivre, grandir.(book on the history of Saint Justine hospital in Montreal, Quebec)(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... L'hopital Sainte-Justine de Montreal a vu le jour grace a la determination de deux femmes. L'une, lrma Levasseur, fut la premiere femme medecin canadienne-francaise; l'autre, Justine Lacoste-Beaubien, provenait d'une riche famille montrealaise et voulait contribuer a l'amelioration du sort ...
Culture, Community and Black Chicago, 1940-1955.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Green, Adam. Selling the Race: Culture, Community and Black Chicago, 1940-1955. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. 280 pp. Much literature exists regarding the role played by Martin Luther King Jr. and the tragic death in 1955 of Emmett Till in the creation of a black ...