Urban History Review articles from March 2006

Urban History Review archives from March 2006

A home away from home: defining, regulating, and challenging femininity at the Julia Drummond Residence in Montreal, 1920-1971.
March 22, 2006... Abstract As newcomers to Montreal, young single, working women were often subject to low salaries, poor housing options, and unknown dangers--both real and imagined--of a big city. This article considers the Julia Drummond Residence as a...

Retrouver la ville a la campagne: la villegiature a Montreal au tournant du XXe siecle (1).(summer resorts in Montreal)
March 22, 2006... Resume Cet article porte sur les representations de la villegiature a Montreal au tournant du XXe siecle. S'inscrivant dans le contexte d'urbanisation et d'industrialisation de cette epoque, la villegiature correspond a la recherche de la...

Lassoed and branded: the Calgary Exhibition and Stampede and the City of Calgary, 1889-1976.
March 22, 2006... Abstract There is a complex relationship between the Calgary Exhibition and Stampede (Stampede) and the City of Calgary. On the one band, the Stampede depends on the municipal government for its very existence. On the other, its...

La toile municipale aux XIXe-XXe siecles: un panorama transnational vu d'Europe.(urban municipal governments)
March 22, 2006... Resume La > est devenue un objet d'etude tres couru depuis une quinzaine d'annees. La participation active des cites aux mouvements d'interconnexion, qu'on resume sous le nom de globalisation, est pourtant absente de cette litterature. On...

Lots of Parking: Land Use in Car Culture.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Jakle, John, and Keith Sculle. Lots of Parking: Land Use in Car Culture. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004. In their latest volume on the geography of car culture (a subject that previously took them into the history of...

Keeping Up with the Joneses: Envy in American Consumer Society, 1890-1930.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Matt, Susan J. Keeping Up with the Joneses: Envy in American Consumer Society, 1890-1930. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. For consumers in the twenty-first century, what could be more natural than the desire for a...

The High Cost of Free Parking.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Shoup, Donald. The High Cost of Free Parking. Chicago: APA Planners Press, 2004. This massive volume of 733 pages provides the evidence that parking requirements in planning legislation or as advocated in industry standards are very...

The Oxford Companion to Canadian History.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Hallowell, Gerald, ed. The Oxford Companion to Canadian History. Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 748. $79.95. The Oxford Companion to Canadian History represents the collaborative work of more than five hundred scholars under...

Royal Spectacle: The 1860 Visit of the Prince of Wales to Canada and the United States.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Radforth, Ian. Royal Spectacle: The 1860 Visit of the Prince of Wales to Canada and the United States. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 469. Illustrations, $39.95 paper. Royal visits to Canada have been of considerable...

Creeping Conformity: How Canada Became Suburban, 1900-1960.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Harris, Richard. Creeping Conformity: How Canada Became Suburban, 1900-1960. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004. Pp. x, 204. Illustrations. $19.95. Paper. In his many studies of building and developing the urban fringe, Richard...

L'approvisionnement en eau a Montreal. Du prive au public, 1796-1860.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Fougeres, Dany. L'approvisionnement en eau a Montreal. Du prive au public, 1796-1860. Septentrion, 2004, 476 p. D'entree de jeu, avouons que le livre de Dany Fougeres, L'approvisionnement en eau a Montreal, arrive a point nomme. Au moment...

Sales and Celebrations: Retailing and Regional Identity in Western New York State, 1920-1940.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Elvins, Sarah. Sales and Celebrations: Retailing and Regional Identity in Western New York State, 1920-1940. University of Ohio Press, 2004. These days, most surveys of American history include a discussion of the development of a mass...

A Theatre Near You: 150 Years of Going to the Show in Ottawa-Gatineau.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Miguelez, Alain. A Theatre Near You: 150 Years of Going to the Show in Ottawa-Gatineau. Manotick, ON: Penumbra Press, 2004. Pp. 370. Illustrations, maps, notes, and bibliography. $45.00 hardback. In Giuseppe Tornatore's 1989 masterpiece...

Mothers of the Municipality: Women, Work, and Social Policy in Post-1945 Halifax.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Fingard, Judith, and Janet Guildford, eds. Mothers of the Municipality: Women, Work, and Social Policy in Post-1945 Halifax. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 318. $35.00 paper. The last time you sat at your desk trying...

Sites of Power: A Concise History of Ontario.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Baskerville, Peter A. Sites of Power: A Concise History of Ontario. Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. vi, 296. Maps, illustrations. $46.95 paper. Finding a good textbook that adequately covers both the pre- and...

Black Power: Radical Politics and African American Identity.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Ogbar, Jeffrey O. G. Black Power: Radical Politics and African American Identity. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 2004. When I began graduate school in 1990, black power in American historical scholarship was a chimera: largely dismissed as...

The Last Undiscovered Place.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Leff, David K. The Last Undiscovered Place. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004. We need not go far to discover a fascinating bit of history: a dilapidated building, an old church, even our own homes may be the source of...

Le fil conducteur, la vie montrealaise et la Commission des services electriques de Montreal 1914 a 1933.(Wired. City Life and Montreal's Commission des services electriques, 1914 to 1933, exhibit at Centre d'histoire de Montreal)
March 22, 2006... > > Exposition temporaire, Centre d'histoire de Montreal, du 30 septembre au 3 avril 2005 Dans la grande region de Montreal, la tempete de verglas de janvier 1998, qui a plonge dans le noir des centaines de milliers de personnes...

Sense of the City.(exhibitions)
March 22, 2006... Sense of the City Canadian Centre for Architecture, 1920 rue Baile, Montreal 26 October 2005 to 10 September 2006 As visitors first step into the latest exhibition at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), the senses are...

Erratum.(Correction notice)
March 22, 2006... We regret the misnumbering of endnote reference numbers on page 70 of the Fall 2005 issue of the journal. We enclose a corrected page.