Urban History Review articles from October 2000

Urban History Review archives from October 2000

The Politics of Municipal Annexation: The Case of the City of London's Territorial Ambitions during the 1950s and 1960s.
October 1, 2000... Abstract Southern Ontario's local government system was under considerable stress immediately following the Second World War as rapid urban growth spilled over traditional municipal units. This situation generated a number of potential...

The Spread of Commuter Development in the Eastern Shore Zone of Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1920-1988.
October 1, 2000... Abstract This study uses evidence from archival and recent topographic maps to plot developing patterns of commuter-induced residential construction in the Eastern Shore sector of the Halifax commuter zone. Building counts were made from...

Mortality in an Early Ontario Community: Belleville 1876-1885.
October 1, 2000... Abstract This study contributes to our understanding of health in late nineteenth-century communities in Ontario and the major factors contributing to the high mortality of the period. The focus of the study is Belleville, Ontario, from...

A Sense of Time and Place: Gilbert Stelter's Contribution to Urban History.
October 1, 2000... Abstract These remarks were presented at "The Urban Academic," a conference in honour of the retirement of Dr. Gil Stelter, September 26, 1998, at the University of Guelph. The conference was presented by the History Department of the...

Safeguarding "The Frog Pond": London West and the Resistance to Municipal Amalgamation 1883-1897 [1].
October 1, 2000... Abstract The London, Ontario, suburb of London West (1874 to 1897) provides an example of a community that strove to maintain its municipal autonomy. Composed of independent wage earners, artisans, and small-business owners, London West...

The Weariness, the Fever, and the Fret: The Campaign against Tuberculosis in Canada 1900-1950.(Review)
October 1, 2000... McCuaig, Katherine, The Weariness, the Fever, and the Fret: The Campaign against Tuberculosis in Canada 1900-1950. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 384. Illustrations. Can$24.95 paper, $55 hard. Those...

The Chinese City in Space and Time. The Development of Urban Form in Suzhou.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Xu, Yinong. The Chinese City in Space and Time. The Development of Urban Form in Suzhou. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2000. Pp. xi, 359. Maps, black-and-white illustrations, glossary, bibliography, index. US$47.00 (cloth). The...

The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Gordon, Linda. The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 416. Maps, black-and-white illustrations, index. US$29.95 (cloth) This account of child adoption and "child stealing" in Arizona in...

Cop Knowledge: Police Power and Cultural Narrative in Twentieth-Century America.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Wilson, Christopher P. Cop Knowledge: Police Power and Cultural Narrative in Twentieth-Century America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 281. Black-and-white illustrations, index. US$16.00 (paper). Christopher Wilson is...

Cathedrals of Commerce: The European Department Store, 1850-1939.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Crossick, Geoffrey, and Serge Jaumain, eds., Cathedrals of Commerce: The European Department Store, 1850-1939. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999. Pp. xvii, 326. Black-and-white illustrations, index. US$99.95. Over the last couple of decades,...

Picture Windows: How the Suburbs Happened.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Baxandall, Rosalyn, and Elizabeth Ewen. Picture Windows: How the Suburbs Happened. New York: Basic Books, 2000. Pp.xxii, 298. Black-and-white illustrations, index. US$27.50, Can$41 .50 (cloth). The strength of the economic boom of the 1990s...

The Writings of Clarence Stein: Architect of the Planned Community.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Parsons, Kermit Carlyle, ed. The Writings of Clarence Stein: Architect of the Planned Community. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. Black-and-white illustrations, bibliography, index. US$59.95 (cloth). For my doctoral...

The Place Vendome: Architecture and Social Mobility in Eighteenth-Century Paris.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Ziskin, Rochelle. The Place Vendome: Architecture and Social Mobility in Eighteenth-Century Paris. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xvi, 224. Black-and-white illustrations, bibliography, index, US $74.95 (cloth). The Place...

City Lives and City Forms: Critical Research and Canadian Urbanism.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Caulfield, Jon, and Peake, Linda, eds. City Lives and City Forms: Critical Research and Canadian Urbanism. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996. Pp. x, 347. Maps. $60.00 cloth, $21.95 paper. "Key current themes in the urban field are...

For the City as a Whole: Planning, Politics, and the Public Interest in Dallas, Texas, 1900-1965.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Fairbanks, Robert B. For the City as a Whole: Planning, Politics, and the Public Interest in Dallas, Texas, 1900-1965. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 318. Maps, bibliography, index. US$47.95 (hardcover). Wilson,...

The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Melosi, Martin V. The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present, Creating the North American Landscape Series. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 578, black-and-white...