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Urban History Review articles from March 2002
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Urban History Review archives from March 2002
The impact of cholera on the design and implementation of Toronto's first municipal by-laws, 1834.
March 1, 2002... Abstract
The City of Toronto was incorporated in 1834 amid much political animosity and turmoil. The tension between the executive administration and its tory sympathizers on the one hand, and the promoters of reform on the other, had...
La vile au coeur de la nation: l'utilisation du passe dans l'elaboration de l'identite urbaine. (1).
March 1, 2002... Resume
Les ceremonies commemoratives entourant le centenaire de l'incorporation de Toronto (1934) et le tricentenaire de la fondation de Montreal (1942) sont l'occasion d'elaborer des discours qui temoignent de l'importance de l'experience...
Old Strathcona: building character and commerce in a preservation district.
March 1, 2002... Abstract
Urban spaces of leisure serve to coordinate cultural and economic benefits for local citizens, and contribute to civic profiles in the international competition for prestige and resources. The potential conflicts between cultural...
Hal Kalman and the architectural history of Canada: a review essay.(A Concise History of Canadian Architecture)
March 1, 2002... Kalman, Harold, A Concise History of Canadian Architecture. Toronto, Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. x. 661. Illustrations. 65.00 Cdn hard.
Harold Kalman's Concise History of Canadian Architecture is an outstanding achievement in recent...
Paris Itineraries: Photography by Eugene Atget. Art Gallery of Ontario. (Exhibition Review).
March 1, 2002... Between 1892 and 1927, Eugene Atget created an extraordinary and enduring photographic document of the historic streets and buildings of central Paris. The exhibition "Paris Itineraries: Photography by Eugene Atget," at the Art Gallery of...
The Fireproof Building: Technology and Public Safety in the Nineteenth-Century American City. (Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus).
March 1, 2002... Sara E. Wermeil. The Fireproof Building: Technology and Public Safety in the Nineteenth-Century American City. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. Pp. viii, 301. Illustrations, bibliography, index.
Most North American cities...
America's Original GI Town: Park Forest, Illinois. (Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus).
March 1, 2002... Gregory C. Randall. America's Original GI Town: Park Forest, Illinois. Baltimore MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. Pp. xvii, 236. Maps, black and white illustrations, bibliography, index. US$42.50.
The cost of Gregory C....
Advertising and the European City: Historical Perspectives. (Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus).
March 1, 2002... Clemens Wischermann and Elliott Shore, eds. Advertising and the European City: Historical Perspectives. Aldershot UK: Ashgate, 2000. Pp. xviii, 225. Illustrations, bibliography, index.
This collection of essays reconsiders the relationship...
Atlas historique (Boucherville, Brossard, Greenfield Park, LeMoyne, Longueuil, Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, Saint-Hubert, Saint-Lambert) & Histoire de Richelieu-Yamaska-Rive-Sud. (Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus).
March 1, 2002... Michel Pratt. Atlas historique (Boucherville, Brossard, Greenfield Park, LeMoyne, Longueuil, Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, Saint-Hubert, Saint-Lambert). Longueuil, Societe historique du Marigot, 2001, Pp. 159. Illustrations, bibliographie.
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America's First Black Town, Brookly, Illinois, 1830-1915 & Strangers in the Land of Paradise: The Creation of an African American Community, Buffalo, New York, 1900-1940. (Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus).
March 1, 2002... Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua. America's First Black Town. Brooklyn, Illinois, 1830--1915. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2000. Pp. Xiv, 276. Tables, index. US$37.50 (cloth).
Lillian Serece Williams. Strangers in the Land of...
The Ride to Modernity: The Bicycle in Canada, 1869-1900. (Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus).
March 1, 2002... Glen Norcliffe. The Ride to Modernity: The Bicycle in Canada, 1869-1900. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001. Pp. 288. Illustrations. $19.95 paper.
The Ride the Modernity is an interesting and ambitious book. In it, Glen Norcliffe...
Immigrant Minds, American Identities: Making the United States Home, 1870-1930. (Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus).
March 1, 2002... Orm Overland. Immigrant Minds, American Identities: Making the United States Home, 1870-1930. Urbana: University of Illnois Press, 2000. Pp., x, 243. Index. US$34.95.
This book reflects the American immigration historian's ongoing...
La trace du fleuve, La Seine et Paris (1750-1850). (Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus).
March 1, 2002... Isabelle Backouche. La trace du fleuve, La Seine et Paris (1750-1850). Paris: Editions de I'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 2000, Pp. 430. Glossaire, bibliographie, cartes, figures, tableaux, index.
La Seine [much less than]...