Urban History Review articles from March 2000

Urban History Review archives from March 2000

In the nature of things: integrating the history and archaeology of nineteenth-century Canada and Australia.
March 1, 2000... This special issue of Urban History Review resulted from three conversations I had recently, in Quebec City, Vancouver, and Hamilton. I am an Australian, a visitor to Canada, and my hosts were making me welcome. William Moss, Principal...

Old Bella Bella, genesis and exodus.
March 1, 2000... This is an account of `Qelc or Old Bella Bella, the town site left by the Heiltsuk people 100 years ago and still known to elders as Old Town. This British Columbia coastal Native settlement -- 525 kilometres north of Vancouver -- begins and...

Wreck of the William Salthouse, 1841: early trade between Canada and Australia.
March 1, 2000... This paper examines the background and historical context to a voyage in 1841 by the trading vessel William Salthouse. It was a voyage between two very different urban centres: the bustling trading city of Montreal in Canada, and Melbourne,...

Inside Melbourne's "Little Lion".
March 1, 2000... "Little Lon". So many tales revolve around the precinct's notoriety as a slum and red-light district. Andy often drew upon those images in the summer of 1988, as he imagined the place as it might have been a century earlier. But imagination was...

After the Sprawl? Suburban Pasts and Futures in the Greater Toronto Area (exhibition).
March 1, 2000... As students of the city, we concern ourselves in large part with urban form, specifically with the ways that cities are built, the consequences of form for urban residents, and alternatives we have for urban growth. In the exhibit After the...

Family, commerce and religion in London and Cologne, c.1000-1300.
March 1, 2000... Huffman, Joseph P. Family, Commerce and Religion in London and Cologne, c.1000-1300. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xviii, 273. Figures, bibliography, index. US$59.95 (hardback) On the opening page of his monograph,...

Red hot and righteous: the urban religion of the Salvation Army.
March 1, 2000... Winston, Diane. In recent times American historians have begun to question seriously the belief that the large cosmopolitan city of the late nineteenth and twentieth century had become a place inhospitable to religion. Diane Winston,...

Edmonton: the life of a city.
March 1, 2000... Hesketh, Bob, and Frances Swyripa, eds. This collection of essays was first presented at a conference held to mark the bicentennial of the founding of Fort Edmonton in 1995. Paul Voisey's "Unsolved Mysteries of Edmonton's Growth" is the...

Public health and social justice in the age of Chadwick, Britain 1800-1854.
March 1, 2000... Hamlin, Christopher. Nineteenth-century urban historians are familiar with campaigns to clean up unsanitary cities through the provision of clean water and the efficient removal of human and industrial waste. This public health movement,...

Smokestacks and progressives: environmentalists, engineers, and air quality in America, 1881-1951.
March 1, 2000... Stradling, David. "I have heard it said," wrote the City of Winnipeg's Smoke Inspector in 1909, "that a `smoky city means a prosperous city,' but common sense is opposed to such an assertion." Smoke, W.F. Thornley argued, "means waste, it...

Rive-Sud de Montreal, dynamique intermunicipale et integration metropolitaine.
March 1, 2000... Collin, Jean-Pierre, et al., :La Rive-Sud de Montreal est-elle un ensemble urbain a part entiere? Quel est le degre de cohesion interne de cet espace qui comprendrait, selon les auteurs, les MRC Lajammerais, Champlain, Roussillon et La...

Ville americaine (espace et societe).
March 1, 2000... Cynthia Ghorra-Gobin, D'entree de jeu, mentionnons que ces ouvrages ecrits par deux geographes francais tentent de retracer la quete d'urbanite et de centralite qui a marque l'histoire des villes nord-americaines. Animee par divers acteurs...

Los Angeles, le myth americaine inachieve.
March 1, 2000... Cynthia Ghorra-Gobin, D'entree de jeu, mentionnons que ces ouvrages ecrits par deux geographes francais tentent de retracer la quete d'urbanite et de centralite qui a marque l'histoire des villes nord-americaines. Animee par divers acteurs...

Ville americaine et ses paysages portuaires entre fonction et symbole.
March 1, 2000... Laurent Vermeersch, D'entree de jeu, mentionnons que ces ouvrages ecrits par deux geographes francais tentent de retracer la quete d'urbanite et de centralite qui a marque l'histoire des villes nord-americaines. Animee par divers acteurs...

Concise historical atlas of Canada.
March 1, 2000... William G. Dean, Conrad Heidenreich, Thomas F. McIllwraith, and John Warkentin. This is an abridged version of the magnificent three-volume Atlas released with so much fanfare over the past decade. All three volumes received accolades well...