Urban History Review articles from September 2005

Urban History Review archives from September 2005

The nature of cities: perspectives in Canadian urban environmental history.
September 22, 2005... Capilano Canyon seems in a realm quite separate from Vancouver. Steep rock walls, mossy and wet; rapids and pools tracing a thin line from snowpack to ocean; ferns and Douglas firs--all remote from the suburbs that surround them. To descend...

Reflections on the nature of an urban bog.
September 22, 2005... Abstract Camosun Bog has existed for approximately two thousand years. Little is known about its use by indigenous people, but it was left essentially undisturbed by European newcomers until the twentieth century. Then, as the population...

How did Calgary get its river parks?
September 22, 2005... Abstract How did Calgary get its river parks? They certainly were not there to begin with. They weren't there as the city grew. They had to be built. As this paper shows, they were constructed relatively recently, and only after an...

"Said tree is a veritable nuisance": Ottawa's street trees 1869-1939.(Cover Story)
September 22, 2005... Abstract Street trees exist in an ambiguous space between built and natural environments, their status reflecting shifting attitudes towards the natural world. Their place was especially evident in debates over street trees in Ottawa...

"A grey wee town": an environmental history of early silver mining at Cobalt, Ontario (1).
September 22, 2005... Abstract Cobalt was Ontario's first mining-boom town and at its height was the world's fourth-largest producer of silver. The initial discovery of silver in 1903 led to a rush that saw the town grow to several thousand inhabitants within a...

Lights out: conserving electricity for war in the Canadian city, 1939-1945.
September 22, 2005... Abstract Economic mobilization in Canada during the Second World War drove a major expansion in power demand in cities of the industrial heartland. To meet the needs of wartime industry, the federal government imposed power conservation...

A changing of the guard: regional planning in Ottawa, 1945-1974.
September 22, 2005... Abstract This paper examines the evolution of planning in Ottawa's metropolitan region between 1945 and 1974--a period of significant change in the city's planning history. (1) As elsewhere, planners and policy-makers in Ottawa were coming...

downtown America: A History of the Place and the People Who Made It.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Isenberg, Alison. downtown America: A History of the Place and the People Who Made It. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2004. xviii + 441 pages. Photographs, maps, notes, index. ISBN (cloth): 0-226-38507-8. Exploring the...

Les territoires de l'entreprise / The Territories of Business.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Bellavance, Claude, et Pierre Lanthier, dir. Les territoires de l'entreprise / The Territories of Business, Sainte-Foy: Presses de l'Universite Laval, 2004. Pp. x, 263. Illustrations. Cet ouvrage collectif offre quatorze des communications...

Communalisations ethniques: le cas des <<Turcs>> de Montreal.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Bilge, Sirma. Communalisations ethniques: le cas des > de Montreal. Paris: Centre d'etudes canadiennes de l'Universite de Paris Ill--Sorbonne Nouvelle, Collection des theses no 9, 2004, 649 p. Comment peut-on expliquer l'organisation d'une...

Boardwalk of Dreams: Atlantic City and the Fate of Urban America.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Simon, Bryant. Boardwalk of Dreams: Atlantic City and the Fate of Urban America. Oxford University Press, 2004. In Boardwalk of Dreams: Atlantic City and the Fate of Urban America, Bryant Simon effectively connects the rise and fall of the...

Sounds of Reform: Progressivism and Music in Chicago, 1873-1935.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Vaillant, Derek. Sounds of Reform: Progressivism and Music in Chicago, 1873-1935. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003, viii-xiii + 401 pp., maps and illustrations. Progressivism has long been considered a many-headed...

Bruxelles et sa riviere. Genese d'un territoire urbain (12e-18e siecle).(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Deligne, Chloe. Bruxelles et sa riviere. Genese d'un territoire urbain (12e-18e siecle). Turnhout, Belgique: Brepols Publishers, Studies in European Urban History (SEUH), 2003, Pp. 1, 272. Illustrations, bibliographie, cartes, plans, index. ...

Manufacturing Suburbs: Building Work and Home on the Metropolitan Fringe.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Lewis, Robert, ed. Manufacturing Suburbs: Building Work and Home on the Metropolitan Fringe. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004. 304 pp, 16 tables, 2 figures, 20 b/w illustrations, 14 maps. Cloth ISBN 1-59123-085-2 / Paper ISBN...

Making Sense of the City: Local Government, Civic Culture, and Community Life in Urban America.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Fairbanks, Robert, and Patricia Mooney-Melvin (eds.) Making Sense of the City. Local Government, Civic Culture, and Community Life in Urban America. Columbus: Ohio State University, 2001. Pp. 192. This book is a collection of urban...

Urban waste sinks as a natural resource: the case of the Fraser River (1).
September 22, 2005... Abstract The discursive and material construction of rivers as natural waste-treatment systems highlights important historical connections between urban sanitary networks, conservation ideology, and urban environmental values in the...