Urban History Review articles from March 22 2009

Urban History Review archives from March 22 2009

Downtowns, past and present.(Essay)
March 22, 2009... In the last two decades, analysts of urban change have focused on the evolution of metropolitan areas that have increasingly taken the form of "fragmented mixtures of employment and residential settings, combining urban and suburban...

Fighting for a radical city: student protesters and the politics of space in 1960s and 1970s downtown Manhattan.(Report)
March 22, 2009... In the popular imagination, 1960s radicalism often appears as a national phenomenon that varied little from region to region. The case of downtown Manhattan during these years, however, challenges this assumption. Student radicals at New York...

Ultramodern underground Dallas: Vincent Ponte's pedestrian-way as systematic solution to the declining downtown.(Report)
March 22, 2009... Mid last century, North American civil servants and urban planners and developers proffered inventive solutions to the problem of the declining downtown core. Robert Moses looked to super-block development and Title of the US Housing Act of...

The events city: Sport, culture, and the transformation of inner Melbourne, 1977-2006.(Report)
March 22, 2009... In 2006 Melbourne, Australia, played host to an almost monthly lineup of major international sporting and cultural events: the Australian Open Tennis tournament, the Commonwealth Games and associated cultural festival, a Formula One Grand Prix,...

Redonner forme et vie au centre historique de Palerme (sicile). Retour sur une experience de developpment territoriale et de requalification urbaine (1993-2001).(Report)
March 22, 2009... Le centre historique de Palerme a connu au lendemain du second conflit mondial un lent et inexorable processus de devitalisation sous Veffet conjoint de son depeuplement et de sa pauperisation. Sa requalification, engagee a Vinitiative du maire...

The facelift and the wrecking ball: urban renewal and Hamilton's King Street West, 1957-1971.(Report)
March 22, 2009... Hamilton, Ontario, wanted a modernist makeover for its downtown during the 1960s. Politicians and businessmen aggressively sought federal and provincial urban renewal funds to rebuild the city's core. This research note focuses on Hamilton's...

Bocquet, Denis. Rome ville technique (1870-1925).(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Bocquet, Denis. Rome ville technique (1870-1925). Une modernisation conflictuelle de I'espace urbain. Rome, Ecole francaise de Rome, 2007, 440 p. Le livre Rome ville technique (1870-1925) de Denis Bocquet nous offre un bel exemple d'une...

Burley, David G., and Mike Maunder.(Living on Furby: Narratives of Home, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1880-2005)(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Burley, David G., and Mike Maunder. Living on Furby: Narratives of Home, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1880-2005. Winnipeg: The Institute of Urban Studies, University of Winnipeg, 2008. Pp. 155. Illustrations, photographs, maps. The historical...

Leloup, Xavier and Martha Radice, eds.(Les Nouveaux Territoires de l'Ethnicite)(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Leloup, Xavier and Martha Radice, eds. Les nouveaux territoires de l'ethnicite. Quebec, Les Presses de I'Universite Laval, 2008. 286 p. As a specialist in Canadian immigration history, I read Les nouveaux territoires de l'ethnicite with...

Myers, Tamara. Caught: Montreal's Modern Girls and the Law, 1869-1945.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Myers, Tamara. Caught: Montreal's Modern Girls and the Law, 1869-1945. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. Pp. 345. Illustrations, photographs, charts. Tamara Myers' Caught is a complex and fascinating study of female juvenile...

Penfold, Steve.(The Donut: A Canadian History)(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Penfold, Steve. The Donut: A Canadian History. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008. Pp. 256. Illustrations, photographs, notes, index. ISBN: 978-0-8020-9797-2; Paper: 978-0-8020-9545-9. This review begins with a warning: reading this...

Correction.(Correction notice)
March 22, 2009... In the fall 2008 issue (volume 37, number 1), the author of The Freedom to Smoke: Tobacco Consumption and Identity reviewed in the book section was incorrectly listed. The author's correct name is Jarrett Rudy.