Urban History Review articles from March 2003

Urban History Review archives from March 2003

Tertiarisation et transformation de l'espace urbain: la rue McGill a Montreal (1842-1934).
March 22, 2003... Resume Cette article prend comme terrain d'etude un espace montrealais (la rue McGill) afin d'analyser le processus de tertiarisation entre les annees 1842 et 1934. D'une maniere specifique, nous traitons des dimensions urbanistiques et...

Herbert Brown Ames: politic al reformer and enforcer.
March 22, 2003... Abstract To make a distinction between political and social reform may appear simplistic, especially when one considers that many turn of the century social reformers were advocates of prohibition, temperance, child welfare and they turned...

Dundas Street Haunts, East and West at the Art Gallery of Ontario. (Exhibit Review).
March 22, 2003... Scholars of urban history may not normally frequent the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) as a research institution, or, f there, may not consider a single painting as a primary source. The current exhibition, "Dundas Street Haunts, East and West,"...

Saint-Laurent: Montreal's Main/Saint-Laurent, la Main de Montreal. (Exhibit Review).
March 22, 2003... (April 17 to October 27, 2002)/(17 avril au 27 octobre 2002) Ponte-a-Calliere, Musee d'archeologie et d'histoire de Montreal Commercial and residential streets fascinate me: the specific qualities of the street environment that reveal...

Metropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920s. (Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Sitton, Tom, and William Deverell, eds. Metropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920s. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 2001. Pp. x, 371. Illustrations, index. US$22.50 (paper), US$55.00 (cloth). Tom...

Quebec, ville et capitale. (Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Courville, Serge et Robert Gagnon, sous la direction de, Quebec, ville et capitale, Sainte-Foy, Les Presses de l'Universite Laval, Collection Atlas historique du Quebec, 2001. Pp. 457. Cartes, illustrations, photographies. Propose dans la...

Hungering for America: Italian, Irish and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration. (Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Diner, Hasia R. Hungering for America: Italian, Irish and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp xvii, 292. Black and white illustrations, index. U.S. $39.95. In reviewing a book about...

The Chicago Tribune Tower Competition: Skyscraper Design and Cultural Change in the 1920s. (Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Solomonson, Katherine. The Chicago Tribune Tower Competition: Skyscraper Design and Cultural Change in the 1920s. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xiii, 370. Illustrations, bibliography, index. In June 1922, the Chicago...

Peking: Temples and City Life, 1400-1900. (Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Naquin, Susan. Peking: Temples and City Life, 1400-1900. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2000. Pp. xxxv, 816. 43 figures, 8 maps, 9 tables, bibliography, glossary-index. US$80.00 (cloth). Naquin's magisterial...

Richmond's Monument Avenue. (Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Driggs, Sarah Shields; Richard Guy Wilson; Robert P. Winthrop. Richmond's Monument Avenue. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 280. Colour and black and white illustrations, appendix, index. US$39.95 (cloth) ...

Histoire de la forme urbaine d'un centre-ville. (Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Morisset, Lucie K. La memoire du paysage. Histoire de la forme urbaine d'un centre-ville : Saint-Roch, Quebec. Quebec : Les Presses de I'Universite Laval, 2001. Pp. 286. Illustrations, bibliographie, index. A la lecture de ce livre, on...

The Places Where Men Pray Together: Cities in Islamic Lands, Seventh Through Tenth Centuries. (Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Wheatley, Paul. The Places Where Men Pray Together: Cities in Islamic Lands, Seventh Through Tenth Centuries. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Pp. xviii, 572. 25 maps, 4 line drawings, appendices, glossary, index. US$65.00 (cloth)...

Le fantasme metropolitain: l'architecture de Ross et MacDonald. (Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Lachapelle, Jacques. Le fantasme metropolitain: l'architecture de Ross et MacDonald. Montreal: Les Presses de l'Universite de Montreal, 2001. Pp. 177. Illustrations, notes, glossaire, archives, bibliographie. Le Fantasme metropolitain:...

Murder in New York City. (Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Monkkonen, Eric H. Murder in New York City. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 238. Black and white illustrations, tables, figures, index. US$29.95 (cloth). Eric Monkkonen's book on murder in New York is ambitious: an...

Histoire du Service de sante de la ville de Montreal, 1865-1975. (Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Benoit Gaumer, Georges Desrosiers at Othmar Keel, Histoire du Service de sante de la ville de Montreal, 1865-1975, Quebec, Presses de l'Universite Laval, Las Editions do I'IQRC, 2002, Pp. 277. L'histoire institutionnelle n'a pas tellement...

The Cambridge Urban History of Britain, vol. II: 1540-1840. (Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Clark, Peter, ed. The Cambridge Urban History of Britain, vol. II: 1540-1840. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000, Pp. xxvii, 906. Illustrations, maps, tables, bibliography, index. US$140 (cloth). Peter Clark's collection of essays...

Villes Nomades du Nouveau Monde. (Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Musset, Alain. Villes Nomades du Nouveau Monde. Paris: Editions de 'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 2002. Pp. 398. Tables, maps, illustrations, bibliography, glossary, geographic index, thematic index. (Civilisations et societes...

Le demon moderne. La pollution dans les societes urbaines et industrielles d'Europe. The modern demon. Pollution in urban and industrial European societies. (Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Christoph Bernhardt & Genevieve Massard-Guilbaud (eds.) 2002. Le demon moderne. La pollution dans les societes urbaines et industrielles d'Europe. The modern demon. Pollution in urban and industrial European societies, Clermont-Ferrand, Presses...

Our Glory and Our Grief: Torontonians and the Great War. (Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Miller, Ian Hugh Maclean. Our Glory and Our Grief: Torontonians and the Great War. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. Pp. 267. Photographs. Ian Miller's Our Glory and Our Grief: Torontonians in the Great War challenges the...

Roughing it in the Suburbs. Reading Chatelaine Magazine in the Fifties and Sixties. (Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Korinek, Valerie J. Roughing it in the Suburbs. Reading Chatelaine Magazine in the Fifties and Sixties. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. Pp. xv, 460. Black and white illustrations bibliography, index. Can$75.00 (hardcover) Can$29.95...

Reconstructing the Dreamland: the Tulsa Riot of 1921, Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation & A Covenant with Color: Race and Social Power in Brooklyn. (Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Brophy, Alfred L. Reconstructing the Dreamland: The Tulsa Riot of 1921, Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. Xx, 187. Illustrations, bibliographic essay, index. $40.00 (cloth) Wilder, Craig...

Policing and Punishment in London, 1660-1750: Urban Crime and the Limits of Terror. (Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Beattie, J.M. Policing and Punishment in London, 1660-1750: Urban Crime and the Limits of Terror. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xx, 491. Tables, figures, maps, illustrations, bibliography of MS sources, index. $127.50 (cloth). ...