Urban History Review articles from October 1998

Urban History Review archives from October 1998

Continuity and discontinuity in Canadian cab history.
October 1, 1998... Taxicabs have been virtually ignored by Canadian historians. (1) This neglect is surprising, considering how large this service looms in academic life. Not only do cab drivers regularly whisk professors off to conferences, but their spirits...

Canadian taxi wars, 1925-1950.
October 1, 1998... Abstract: Between 1925 and 1950 most Canadian cities experienced a taxi war during which fares and drivers' incomes plum meted. These wars had their origin in the low barriers to entry into the industry, as it became clear in the late...

She's no lady: the experience and expression of gender among Halifax women taxi drivers since World War II.
October 1, 1998... Abstract: "She's No Lady" explores the complex relationship between gender identity and work culture as experienced by women taxi drivers in Halifax. Working in a traditionally male industry, women taxi drivers often attract the attention...

People and the bay: a popular history of Hamilton Harbour (exhibition).
October 1, 1998... An Exhibit at: The Ontario Workers Arts and Heritage Centre (OW AHC) Michael Mercier, McMaster University The Ontario Workers Arts and Heritage Centre (OWAHC), based in Hamilton, Ontario and housed in the city's old Customs House...

"New spirit: modern architecture in Vancouver, 1938-65": exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery, November 8 1997 - January 18 1998.
October 1, 1998... Sherry McKay School of Architecture, University of British Columbia Playing to a home audience between November 8, 1997 and January 18, 1998, the "New Spirit: Modern Architecture in Vancouver, 1938-1965," won popular appeal as it...

Time to travel to the 18th century: life in New World settlements.
October 1, 1998... [CD-ROM], produced by Folkus Atlantic, Sydney, NS, 1996. Fiction/non-fiction, textbook/monograph, university or high-school text--notwithstanding the occasional genre-blurring experiment, deliberate spoof, or indeed the conventional dictum...

Bridge to Dalmatia: a search for the meaning of place.
October 1, 1998... Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. Pp. xvii. 351. Maps, black and white illustrations, bibliography and index. US$ 49.95 (cloth). The title of this book, The Bridge to Dalmatia, refers to the connection between...

Waterloo Township through two centuries.
October 1, 1998... Kitchener: Waterloo Historical Society, 1995. Pp. xiv & 466. Maps, illustrations. $75.00 hard, $85.00 with handling. This large book is about a rural municipality dismantled twenty-six years ago. Waterloo Township was the rural "doughnut or...

Understanding ordinary lanscapes.
October 1, 1998... New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997. Pp. ix, 272. Maps, black and white illustrations, bibliography and index. This volume is the product of a 1990 symposium held to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the founding of the...

Working-class housing in England between the wars: the Becontree estate.
October 1, 1998... Oxford Historical Manuscripts. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. Pp. 273. 2 maps, 17 tables, bibliography, index. $121.50 (cloth). When urban studies came storming onto the scholarly scene in the 1960s, housing was identified as one of the...

Budapest and New York: studies in metropolitan transformation: 1870-1930.
October 1, 1998... New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1994. Pp. xiv, 400. This collection of fourteen essays is an exercise in double comparison. It illustrates five themes in the histories of New York and Budapest: the relationships between politics,...

Planning the twentieth-century American city.
October 1, 1998... Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. Pp. xiv, 594. Maps, black and white illustrations, tables, bibliography and index. US$55.00 (cloth) US$24.95 (paper). At the beginning of this thick and exceptional work, Sies...

Liberal dreams and nature's limits: great cities of North America since 1600.
October 1, 1998... Toronto and New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. x, 341. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography and index. This is an informed, provocative, and challenging book. It is obviously the product of years of careful thinking...

Naples in the time of cholera, 1884-1911.
October 1, 1998... Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xvi, 478. Bibliography, index. Historians have seen the Giolittian period as representing a decisive change in the economic life of Italy. A Gershenkon (1962) called the years 1896-1908...

Moscow: governing the socialist metropolis.
October 1, 1998... Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1995. Pp. xvi, 937. 75 figures, 41 maps, 15 tables, appendices, notes, index. Despite its subtitle, there is much more to be found in this book than simply the manner in...

Profit and urban land: landownership in medieval and early modern northern European towns.
October 1, 1998... Aldershot, Hants, England: Scolar Press, 1996. Pp. xiv, 277. Maps, tables, charts, black and white illustrations, bibliographies and index. ($84.95 cloth). This volume presents papers from a conference on urban landownership in medieval...

Regional planning association of America and its members.
October 1, 1998... (Urban Life and Landscape Series). Columbus OH: Ohio State University Press, 1996. Pp. xvi, 247. Bibliography, index. US$45.00 (cloth) The Regional Plan Association of America (RPAA) looms large in American planning history not because of...

Empire building: orientalism and victorian architecture.
October 1, 1998... London and New York: Routledge, 1996 Pp. xvi, 288 pages. 95 black and white illustrations, index. $104.95 (cloth); $34.95 (paper). Crinson's study of nineteenth-century British building in three Near Eastern cities resonates with current...