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Urban History Review articles from March 2004
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Urban History Review archives from March 2004
Movie palaces on Canadian downtown main streets: Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver.
March 22, 2004... Abstract
The emergence of movie palaces is traced for St. Catherine Street in Montreal, Yonge Street in Toronto, and Granville Street in Vancouver. Beginning in 1896, film shows were included in a range of urban amusement places. When...
Je cherche fortune: identity, counterculture, and profit in fin-de-siecle Montmartre.
March 22, 2004... Abstract
This paper examines the Parisian neighbourhood of Montmartre during the 1880s and 1890s. Isolating themselves on a hilltop to the north of the city, a defiant community of painters and poets left the busy macadam below to position...
Blurred vision: the Calgary union stockyard issue, 1913-1914.
March 22, 2004... Abstract
Calgary's historic association with the ranching industry and the increased volume of livestock from mixed farms led municipal leaders to explore the possibility of establishing a union stockyards in the city in 1913-1914. The...
Creating community: industrial paternalism and town planning in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, 1923-1955.
March 22, 2004... Abstract
In the early twentieth century numerous primary extractive industries constructed company towns on the resource frontiers of North America. Company directors hoped that massive capital infusion in remote areas in the form of...
Women and the City: Gender, Space, and Power in Boston, 1870-1940.(Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Deutsch, Sarah. Women and the City: Gender, Space, and Power in Boston, 1870-1940. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. 387.
The prescription and metaphor of separate spheres has long held a fascination for historians of American...
Industrial Sunset: The Making of North America's Rust Belt, 1969-1984.(Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... High, Steven. Industrial Sunset: The Making of North America's Rust Belt, 1969-1984. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 306. $55.00 cloth, $27.95 paper.
A casual Internet search for the term rust belt produces almost...
Villes et societe urbaine aux Etats-Unis.(Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Ghorra-Gobin, Cynthia. Villes et societe urbaine aux Etats-Unis. Paris: Armand Colin, 2003. Pp. 192. Illustrations, bibliographie, index.
Voici un remarquable ouvrage de synthese historique, sociologique et geographique qui s'appuie sur une...
Les vehicules d'incendie sur commande: necessite technologique ou construction sociale?(Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Beauvais, Suzanne J. Les vehicules d'incendie sur commande: necessite technologique ou construction sociale? Ottawa: Musee des sciences et de la technologie du Canada, 2003. Pp. viii, 86. Illustrations, bibliographie, index.
Il aurait ete...
John Nolen and Mariemont: Building a New Town in Ohio.(Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Rogers, Millard F., Jr. John Nolen and Mariemont: Building a New Town in Ohio. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 260. Illustrations, bibliography, index. US$45.00 (hardcover).
Millard Rogers has produced a highly...
Mirror of the Cosmos.(Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Chappell, Sally A. Kitt. Cahokia: Mirror of the Cosmos. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. xix, 218. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography. $42.42 (hardcover), $32.91 (paperback).
Cahokia: Mirror of the Cosmos is an attempt...
Falling into Place.(Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Terpstra, John. Falling into Place. Kentville: Gaspereau Press, 2002. Pp. 318. Illustrations, maps. $25.95 (paperback).
"This book is what happens when one person becomes completely enamored of the landscape, and a particular feature of the...
Provincial Lives: Middle-Class Experience in the Antebellum Middle West.(Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Mahoney, Timothy R. Provincial Lives: Middle-Class Experience in the Antebellum Middle West. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. x, 334. Illustrations, maps, tables, bibliography, index. US$54.95 (hardcover).
In the conclusion...