Urban History Review articles from October 1997

Urban History Review archives from October 1997

Planting the municipal ownership idea in Port Arthur, 1875-1914.
October 1, 1997... Abstract: The municipal ownership idea found fertile soil on the rocky north shore of Lake Superior. The predominance of local land ownership, the absence of large industrial employers and a small population where religion and ethnicity...

Professional sports facilities and developing urban communities: Vancouver's Recreation Park, 1905-1912.
October 1, 1997... Abstract: During the final decades of the nineteenth century, the city of Vancouver, British Columbia was a rapidly developing community that would become the province's dominant urban centre. This growth and prosperity would continue...

Redevelopment and race: planning a finer city in postwar Detroit.
October 1, 1997... Baltimore and London: John Hopkins University Press, 1997. Pp. xx, 274, illustrations, maps, tables, graphs, index. US$39.95 (cloth). In the past six decades the image of Detroit has been transformed along a tortuous course from the "Motor...

Black business in the black metropolis: the Chicago Metropolitan Assurance Company, 1925-1985.
October 1, 1997... Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1996, pp. Xvii, 158. Illustrations, US$35.00. The first black commercial insurance companies emerged in the late nineteenth century in part because white firms, convinced by pervasive...

Post-suburbia: government and politics in the edge cities.
October 1, 1997... Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. 242 pp. ISBN 0-8018-5450-4. U.S.$32.50 (hardcover) Jon Teaford has written several synthetic narratives about metropolitan America, focussing especially upon city government. In his latest...

Reportage of urban culture: Robert Park and the Chicago school.
October 1, 1997... Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. xiv, 237, 6 black and white plates, bibliography, index. $54.95 (cloth). The essence of the Chicago School of Sociology, as it developed under the leadership of Robert Park in the 1920s, was...

Urban verbs: arts and discourses of American cities.
October 1, 1997... Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. Pp. vii, 310. 16 black and white figures, bibliography, index. $39.50 (US). My background includes twentieth-century literary studies and inter-art explorations that involve verbal and visual...

Tokyo life, New York dreams: urban Japanese visions of America, 1890-1924.
October 1, 1997... Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1996. Pp. xvii, 268, 11 halftone illustrations, 9 tables, 2 maps, bibliography, index. US$40.00. The subject of Tokyo Life, New York Dreams, the history of the small number of...

Crewe: railway town, company and people, 1840-1914.
October 1, 1997... Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1995. Pp.xiii, 259. 8 black and white plates, bibliography, tables, index. Crewe is a quintessential company town. It was established by the Grand Junction Railway in 1842-43 on a then poorly populated part of the...

Urban forms and colonial confrontations: Algiers under French rule.
October 1, 1997... Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 236. Illustrations, bibliography, index. The connection between urban forms and architecture, on the one hand, and defence, on the other, has long been recognized in a social...

Ligue ouvriere catholique canadienne: 1938-1954.
October 1, 1997... Montreal, Boreal, 1996, 253p. La breve introduction de ce livre presente l'interpretation que l'auteur fait de l'histoire recente du Quebec et la these qu'il soutient tout au long de son ouvrage. Selon lui, il est aujourd'hui reconnu que,...

Espace social de Montreal, 1951-1991.
October 1, 1997... Sillery: Septentrion, 1996. 400 cartes. 354 pp. 305. L'espace social de Montreal draws from Statistics Canada's 1951 to 1991 federal census data for Montreal to create a series of 400 black and white maps, prefaced with one-page analytical...

Born at the right time: a history of the baby boom generation.
October 1, 1997... Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996. Pp. xv, 392. Black and White photographs. $ 34.95 hard. At the core of Doug Owram's interest for the generation of Canadians born between 1945 and 1955 is the "enthusiasm for experimentation with...

Ghosts of Berlin: confronting German history in the urban landscape.
October 1, 1997... Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. Pp. X, 27, 55 black and white illustrations, bibliography, index. US$29.95 (cloth). There is no shortage of historical books, scholarly or otherwise, on the city of Berlin, its architecture,...

Lord Strathcona: a bigraphy of Donald Alexandar Smith.
October 1, 1997... Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1996. Pp. 600. 47 illustrations. $34.99 (cloth). Driving the last spike into the "CPR" track at Craigellachie, in the B.C. interior, is an image that has embellished Canadian text books for over a century, as it...

Civic wars: democracy and public life in the American city during the nineteenth century.
October 1, 1997... Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 376, 44 black and white illustrations, bibliography, index. US$27.50. Combining a rich array of primary sources such as newspapers, government records, and...

Particular condition in life: self-employment in mid-Victorian Brantford, Ontario.
October 1, 1997... Ontario. Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1994. Pp.309. Tables. $39.95 cloth. For some time now social historians have focused on the formation of a Canadian working class during the industrialisation era of the mid...

Looking for old Ontario: two centuries of landscape change.
October 1, 1997... Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997. xiv + 400 pp. b&w illus., appendices, index. Thomas Mcllwraith has been observing, and reflecting on, the rural landscape of southern Ontario for several decades. In a contemplative style, and...

Echoes of empire: Victoria and its remakable buildings.
October 1, 1997... Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing, 1996. Pp. xxvii, 362. Ninety black and white illustrations. $32.95 hardback. No other Canadian city has so consciously cultivated its own image as Victoria has. As Vancouver artist, writer and...