Urban History Review articles from October 1996

Urban History Review archives from October 1996

Critique du projet de Place Royal a travers les valeurs.
October 1, 1996... Resume: L'analyse des arguments des auteurs dans le projet d'intervention sur Place Royale permet d'enoncer les valeurs reellement investies dans le projet de Place Royale. Elles sont, selon leur importance decroissante, nationaliste,...

Energie et amenagement: villes industrielles planifiees du Quebec, 1890-1950 (exposition).
October 1, 1996... Le Centre Canadien de l'Architecture tenait recemment une exposition sur la creation et l'evolution de trois villes industrielles planifiees du Quebec: Shawinigan (1899), Temiscaming (1917) et Arvida (1925). A l'aide de 400 pieces provenant de...

People, potholes and city politics.
October 1, 1996... Karen Herland, People, Potholes and City Politics (Montreal: Black Rose Books, 1992). Collectively these four volumes mark, however tentatively and unevenly, the beginning of a significant new direction in the study of Canadian urban...

Neighbourhood organizations and the welfare state.
October 1, 1996... Shlomo Hasson and David Ley Neighbourhood Organizations and the Welfare State (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994). Collectively these four volumes mark, however tentatively and unevenly, the beginning of a significant new direction...

Political arrangements: power and the city.
October 1, 1996... Henri Lustiger-Thaler (ed.) Political Arrangements: Power and the City (Montreal: Black Rose Books, 1992). Collectively these four volumes mark, however tentatively and unevenly, the beginning of a significant new direction in the study of...

Urban lives: frangmentation and resistance.
October 1, 1996... Vered Amit-Talai and Henri Lustiger-Thaler (eds.) Urban Lives: Fragmentation and Resistance (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1994). Collectively these four volumes mark, however tentatively and unevenly, the beginning of a significant new...

Language of planning: essays on the origins and ends of American planning thought.
October 1, 1996... Guttenberg, Albert Z. The Language of Planning: Essays on the Origins and Ends of American Planning Thought. Urbana and Chicago IL: University of Illinois Press, 1993, Pp. xviii, 266, Index. $42.50 (US) (cloth), $16.95 (US) (paper). The...

Building cities that work.
October 1, 1996... Fowler, Edmund P. Building cities that Work. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1992. Pp. xv, 315. Illustrations, index. $44.95 (cloth), $19.95 (paper). The juxtaposition of these two books is fortuitous in that they...

Architecture in the family way: doctors, houses and women, 1870-1900.
October 1, 1996... Adams, Annmarie. Architecture in the Family Way: Doctors, Houses and Women, 1870-1900. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996. Pp. xxi, 227. Illustrations. $39.95 cloth. This investigation into the domestic...

Coachmen of nineteenth-century Paris: service workers and class consciousness.
October 1, 1996... Papayanis, Nicholas. The Coachmen of Nineteenth-Century Paris: Service Workers and Class Consciousness. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1993. Pp. xvi, 247. Illustrations, bibliography, index. The point of...

Between the fields and the city: women, work, and family in Russia, 1861-1914.
October 1, 1996... Engel, Barbara Alpern. Between the Fields and the City: Women, Work, and Family in Russia, 1861-1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xi, 254. Illustrations, tables, maps, index. $59.95 (U.S.). Si la nature meme de...

Kiev: a portrait, 1800-1917.
October 1, 1996... Hamm, Michael F. Kiev: A Portrait, 1800-1917. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. Pp. xviii, 304. Illustrations, tables, index. Specialiste en histoire urbaine et editeur de deux collections d'articles parues recemment -- The City...

New York Irish.
October 1, 1996... Bayor, Ronald H. and Timothy J. Meagher, eds. The New York Irish. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1996. Pp. xxii, 743. Tables, maps, photos, index. U.S.$ 45.00. This book is good value, but only if one understands what it is. It...

From artisans to paupers: economic change and poverty in London, 1790-1870.
October 1, 1996... Green, David R. From Artisans to Paupers: Economic Change and Poverty in London, 1790-1870. Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1995. Pp. xvii, 298. Figures, tables, index. US$76.95 A quarter century ago, Gareth Stedman Jones made reference to...

Local markets and medieval trade in medieval exeter.
October 1, 1996... Kowalesky, Maryanne. Local Markets and Medieval Trade in Medieval Exeter. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xvi, 442. Annexes, tables, maps, bibliography, index. Until recently, models of economic development for medieval...

Cities of light and heat: domesticating gas and electricity in urban America.
October 1, 1996... Rose, Mark H. Cities of Light and Heat: Domesticating Gas and Electricity in Urban America. University Park: Penn State Press, 1995. Pp. xviii, 229.18 illustrations, 6 tables, bibliography, index. US$34.50. Books about urban energy systems...

Urbanization and crime: Germany 1871-1914.
October 1, 1996... Johnson, Eric A. Urbanization and Crime. Germany 1871-1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. X, 246. Rosenmontag in Cologne! Anybody familiar with the long tradition of carnival in catholic Cologne will agree with the author...

Petersburg: crucible of cultural revolution.
October 1, 1996... Clark, Katerina, Petersburg: Crucible of Cultural Revolution. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1995. Pp. xii, 377. Index. As the title indicates, this book explains the origins of the relatively little-known Soviet Cultural...

Fighting sprawl and city hall: resistance to urban growth in the Southwest.
October 1, 1996... Logan, Michael F. Fighting Sprawl and City Hall: Resistance to Urban Growth in the Southwest. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1995. Pp. vii, 223. Illustration, tables, maps, index. US$39.95 (cloth); US$17.95 (paper). During the...

City at leisure: an illustrated history of parks and recreation in Winnipeg.
October 1, 1996... Macdonald, Catherine. A City at Leisure: An Illustrated History of Parks and Recreation in Winnipeg. Winnipeg: City of Winnipeg, Parks and Recreation Department, 1995. Pp. xiii, 220. Black and White Photographs. paper. This volume traces,...

Unplanned suburbs Toronto's American tragedy 1900-1950.
October 1, 1996... Harris, Richard. Unplanned Suburbs Toronto's American Tragedy 1900 to 1950. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. Pp. xvi + 356. Maps, illustrations. $39.95 (U.S.) hard. I spent the first year of my life in an...

Alberta's local governments: politics and democracy.
October 1, 1996... Jack Masson with Edward C. LeSage Jr. Alberta's local governments: politics and democracy. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1994. Pp. ix, 603. $29.95. These are both very good books of their kind. If we compare them with earlier...

Local government in Canada.
October 1, 1996... C. Richard Tindal and Susan Nobes Tindal Local government in Canada (fourth edition). Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1995. Pp. xv, 399. These are both very good books of their kind. If we compare them with earlier editions, or with their...