Urban History Review articles from September 2002

Urban History Review archives from September 2002

Society and space in the industrial city: introduction.
September 22, 2002... Over the last decade, historians, geographers, and other urban analysts have devoted an extraordinary amount of attention to the history of Montreal. This attention derives not just from the fact that Montreal celebrated its 350th birthday a...

Protestant restructuring in the Canadian city: church and mission in the industrial working-class district of Griffintown, Montreal.
September 22, 2002... Abstract: Increasing social and spatial segregation along class lines in nineteenth-century Montreal brought about a restructuring of the city's Protestant churches. This paper compares the strategies adopted by Anglicans and Presbyterians...

Le declin de la maison de fond de cour a Montreal, 1880-1920 (1).
September 22, 2002... Luc Carey (2) Resume: La maison de fond de cour montrealaise est une habitation ouvriere typique des quartiers pauvres, associee a la revolution industrielle. Construite dans la cour arriere, elle est cachee de la rue par un autre...

The creative destruction of Montreal: street widenings and urban (re)development in the nineteenth century.
September 22, 2002... Abstract Rapid industrialization of North American cities during the nineteenth century was associated with periodic innovations in transportation and massive increases in traffic, which, in turn, caused perennial problems of congestion in...

The cemetery and cultural memory: Montreal, 1860-1900.
September 22, 2002... Abstract: The common conception that the cemetery is a site of memory for all who died and were buried before us is a false one. There were certain biases in who was being commemorated, a form of selectivity to the memorial process that...

Exhibit review: Dundas Street Haunts, East and West at the Art Gallery of Ontario.
September 22, 2002... Scholars of urban history may not normally frequent the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) as a research institution, or, if there, may not consider a single painting as a primary source. The current exhibition, "Dundas Street Haunts, East and West,"...

Our 30th anniversary in the beginning.
September 22, 2002... The Review/Revue began in a happy conjuncture of people, propinquity and technology, or what we used to call "agents" and "faceless forces". In 1970, John Taylor's first office at Carleton University was next to one inhabited by Del Muise,...

Montreal: The Quest for a Metropolis. (Book Reviews).(in French )(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Germain, Annick and Damaris Rose. Montreal. The Quest for a Metropolis, Chichester, John Wiley and Sons, Ltd., 2000, xiv-306p. La situation de Montreal par rapport a l'ensemble du Quebec a pratiquement toujours ete problematique. Pendant...

Atlas de la Revolution francaise, 11: Paris. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Ducoudray, Emile, Raymonde Monnier, et Daniel Roche (editors), graphic conceptualization by Alexandra Laclau. Atlas de la Revolution francaise, 11: Paris, Paris: Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 2000. Pp. 132. Illustrations, maps,...

The Art of Nation-Building: Pageantry and Spectacle at Quebec's Tercentenary. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... H. V. Nelles. The Art of Nation-Building: Pageantry and Spectacle at Quebec's Tercentenary. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. Pp 397. Consecrating spaces for historical commemoration, a practice that has lately received a great...