Urban History Review articles from September 2004

Urban History Review archives from September 2004

Introduction; The New Cultural History and Urban History: intersections.
September 22, 2004... The theme of this issue of the Urban History Review/Revue d'histoire urbaine is "The New Cultural History and Urban History," a theme intended to answer a question about the place of the city in a recent trend in historical research. The aim of...

"Are we to go literally to the hot dogs?" Parking lots, drive-ins, and the critique of progress in Toronto's suburbs, 1965-1975.
September 22, 2004... Abstract This paper examines reactions to drive-in restaurants in the suburbs of Toronto, Ontario, in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It begins by laying out the main themes of a suburban critique of drive-ins, which were seen as symbols...

Commemorating the Loyalists in the Loyalist city: Saint John, New Brunswick, 1883-1934.
September 22, 2004... Abstract Historical consciousness in Saint John, New Brunswick, at present is fragmented. From the 1880s until the mid-1930s, public history was dominated by memories of the 1780s Loyalist founders of the city. This article examines the...

Representing the "historical centre" of Bologna: preservation policies and reinvention of an urban identity.
September 22, 2004... Abstract This article analyzes the visual and textual representations of the "historical centre" of Bologna before and after 1969, the year when the first of the city's celebrated plans for the preservation of the ancient urban fabric were...

La culture urbaine au Canaformes de la culture de da et les l'imprim aux XVII[I.sup.e] et XI[X.sup.e] sicles.
September 22, 2004... La culture de l'imprime constitue une des formes d'expression et de communication de l'homme. Faisant appel e l'instruction et C l'alphabetisation, elle presuppose une possibilite economique d'acces e ce medium qu'est le livre ou le journal....

City: Urbanism and Its End.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Rae, Douglas W. City: Urbanism and Its End. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. Pp. xix, 516. Tables, maps, illustrations, bibliography, index. US$30.00 (hardcover). This beautifully turned out, weighty volume offers a detailed,...

Public Markets and Civic Culture in Nineteenth-Century America.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Tangires, Helen. Public Markets and Civic Culture in Nineteenth-Century America. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. Pp. xx, 265. Black-and-white illustrations, bibliography, index. US$45.00 (hardcover). At a time...

The National Gallery of Canada: Ideas, Art, Architecture.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Ord, Douglas. The National Gallery of Canada: Ideas, Art, Architecture. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 496. Illustrations. $49.95 (hardcover). In a recent edition of her 1961 urban planning critique,...

Respectable Burial: Montreal's Mount Royal Cemetery.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Young, Brian. Respectable Burial: Montreal's Mount Royal Cemetery. Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003. Pp. lvi, 230. Colour photographs by Geoffrey James. Illustrations, maps. $49.95 (hardcover). Though dubbed...

Manufacturing Montreal: The Making of an Industrial Landscape, 1850 to 1930.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Lewis, Robert. Manufacturing Montreal: The Making of an Industrial Landscape, 1850 to 1930. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. Pp. xvii, 336. Dans Manufacturing Montreal. Robert Lewis s'attaque d'abord et avant tout C une...

Founding Fathers: The Celebration of Champlain and Laval in the Streets of Quebec, 1878-1908.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Rudin, Ronald. Founding Fathers: The Celebration of Champlain and Laval in the Streets of Quebec, 1878-1908. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. Pp. 290. Illustrations, photographs, maps. $60.00 (hardcover) $27.95 (paperback). Like...

Municipal Services and Employees in the Modern City: New Historic Approaches.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Dagenais, Michele, Irene Maver, and Pierre-Yves Saunier. Municipal Services and Employees in the Modern City: New Historic Approaches. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2003. Pp. xii, 238. US$84.95 (hardcover). This is an important book....

The Imaginative Structure of the City.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Blum, Alan. The Imaginative Structure of the City. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003. Pp. x, 330. $44.95 (hardcover). The Imaginative Structure of the City is a product of the Culture of Cities project, one of...

Second Metropolis: Pragmatic Pluralism in Gilded Age Chicago, Silver Age Moscow, and Meiji Osaka.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Ruble, Blair A. Second Metropolis: Pragmatic Pluralism in Gilded Age Chicago, Silver Age Moscow, and Meiji Osaka. Washington, DC, and Cambridge: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xvii, 464, Illustrations,...

Science and the City.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Dierig, Sven, Jens Lachmund, J. Andrew Mendelsohn, eds. Science and the City. OSIRIS 18, 2003. Pp. v, 282. Illustrations, index. When I was a boy on a farm between New York and Philadelphia, a trip to the city was an event. Inevitably the...

Planning Latin America's Capital Cities, 1850-1950.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Almandoz, Arturo, ed. Planning Latin America's Capital Cities, 1850-1950. London and New York: Routledge, 2002. Pp. xii, 282. Illustrations, maps, index. $120 (hardcover). "Paris goes West," "a mirror image of a European metropolis,"...