Urban History Review articles from October 1999

Urban History Review archives from October 1999

Two-wheeled workhorse: the bicycle as personal and commercial transport in Winnipeg.
October 1, 1999... Even today, in an advanced technological society where high speed transportation is the norm, the bicycle is still an important conveyance, used world-wide by millions of people. Historically it made a significant contribution to the...

"Tale of two cities": boosterism and the imagination of community during the visit of the Prince of Wales to Saint John and Halifax in 1860.
October 1, 1999... Nineteenth-century inhabitants of Saint John and Halifax caught their first glimpse of the Heir Apparent in 1860, as Prince Albert Edward, the Prince of Wales, visited various parts of the colonies and the United States as part of a...

Home building under the Veterans' Land Act (1942): an interview with Harry Hall.
October 1, 1999... The Second World War has often been regarded as a critical moment in the formation of Canadian national identity. Programs that helped veterans readjust to civilian life were very important. The Veterans' Land Act (VLA) of 1942 was part of...

Montreal Metropole, 1880-1930 (exposition).
October 1, 1999... Cette exposition retrace la transformation de Montreal, cite marchande au XIXe siecle, en metropole du Canada. Elle analyse l'evolution de l'architecture, du tissu urbain et des infrastructures qui ont fait de Montreal la ville que nous...

Republic of capital: Buenos Aires and the legal transformation of the Atlantic world.
October 1, 1999... Adelman, Jeremy. This is a study of how the city and province of Buenos Aires lost their prosperous positions at the periphery of the Atlantic economy between 1806 and 1830, and how by 1860 the merchant capitalists of Buenos Aires city had...

Shanghai modern: the flowering of a new urban culture in China, 1930-1945.
October 1, 1999... Lee, Leo Ou-fan. Leo Ou-fan Lee introduces Shanghai urban culture to the reader by invoking the prose of Mao Dun: "LIGHT, HEAT, POWER!" These words express a fascination with urban spaces and modernity which permeated experience,...

Deciphering global epidemics: analytical approaches to the disease records of world cities, 1888-1912.
October 1, 1999... Cliff, Andrew; Peter Haggett; Matthew Smallman-Raynor. In 1887 the United States Marine Hospital Service (forerunner of the United States Public Health Service) began publishing a weekly bulletin of disease data gathered not only from...

Vampires, dragons, and Egyptian kings: youth gangs in postwar New York.
October 1, 1999... Schneider, Eric C. In the summer of 1959 unchecked violence of New York City youth gangs catapulted these previously obscure adolescent male cliques to the status of newsmakers. Among the numerous boys and bystanders murdered that summer...

Literary and cultural spaces of restoration London.
October 1, 1999... Wall, Cynthia. "All that had been familiar, settled, phenomenologically given was suddenly and entirely swept away...." Cynthia Wall's description of London after the Great Fire of 1666 could equally apply to those who think they know the...