Recently added articles from Urban History Review:
Downtowns, past and present.(Essay)
Mar 22, 2009; Poitras, Claire ... In the last two decades, analysts of urban change have focused on the evolution of metropolitan areas that have increasingly taken the form of "fragmented mixtures of employment and residential settings, combining urban and suburban characteristic." (1) Edge cities, edgeless cities, ...
Fighting for a radical city: student protesters and the politics of space in 1960s and 1970s downtown Manhattan.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; Beasley, Betsy A. ... In the popular imagination, 1960s radicalism often appears as a national phenomenon that varied little from region to region. The case of downtown Manhattan during these years, however, challenges this assumption. Student radicals at New York University in Greenwich Village were just as ...
Ultramodern underground Dallas: Vincent Ponte's pedestrian-way as systematic solution to the declining downtown.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; Terranova, Charissa N. ... Mid last century, North American civil servants and urban planners and developers proffered inventive solutions to the problem of the declining downtown core. Robert Moses looked to super-block development and Title of the US Housing Act of 1949 to funnel federal dollars into urban renewal ...
The events city: Sport, culture, and the transformation of inner Melbourne, 1977-2006.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; O'Hanlon, Seamus ... In 2006 Melbourne, Australia, played host to an almost monthly lineup of major international sporting and cultural events: the Australian Open Tennis tournament, the Commonwealth Games and associated cultural festival, a Formula One Grand Prix, an International Flower and Garden Show, an ...
Redonner forme et vie au centre historique de Palerme (sicile). Retour sur une experience de developpment territoriale et de requalification urbaine (1993-2001).(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; Maccaglia, Fanrizio ... Le centre historique de Palerme a connu au lendemain du second conflit mondial un lent et inexorable processus de devitalisation sous Veffet conjoint de son depeuplement et de sa pauperisation. Sa requalification, engagee a Vinitiative du maire de centre-gauche Leoluca Orlando, a commence ...
The facelift and the wrecking ball: urban renewal and Hamilton's King Street West, 1957-1971.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; Rockwell, Margaret T. ... Hamilton, Ontario, wanted a modernist makeover for its downtown during the 1960s. Politicians and businessmen aggressively sought federal and provincial urban renewal funds to rebuild the city's core. This research note focuses on Hamilton's King Street West, between James and Bay, which ...
Bocquet, Denis. Rome ville technique (1870-1925).(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009 ... Bocquet, Denis. Rome ville technique (1870-1925). Une modernisation conflictuelle de I'espace urbain. Rome, Ecole francaise de Rome, 2007, 440 p. Le livre Rome ville technique (1870-1925) de Denis Bocquet nous offre un bel exemple d'une analyse d'un objet technique, les egouts ...
Burley, David G., and Mike Maunder.(Living on Furby: Narratives of Home, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1880-2005)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009 ... Burley, David G., and Mike Maunder. Living on Furby: Narratives of Home, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1880-2005. Winnipeg: The Institute of Urban Studies, University of Winnipeg, 2008. Pp. 155. Illustrations, photographs, maps. The historical trajectories of inner city residential ...
Leloup, Xavier and Martha Radice, eds.(Les Nouveaux Territoires de l'Ethnicite)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009 ... Leloup, Xavier and Martha Radice, eds. Les nouveaux territoires de l'ethnicite. Quebec, Les Presses de I'Universite Laval, 2008. 286 p. As a specialist in Canadian immigration history, I read Les nouveaux territoires de l'ethnicite with great pleasure, thankful for an academic ...
Myers, Tamara. Caught: Montreal's Modern Girls and the Law, 1869-1945.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009 ... Myers, Tamara. Caught: Montreal's Modern Girls and the Law, 1869-1945. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. Pp. 345. Illustrations, photographs, charts. Tamara Myers' Caught is a complex and fascinating study of female juvenile delinquency in Montreal. Myers explores how ...
Penfold, Steve.(The Donut: A Canadian History)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009 ... Penfold, Steve. The Donut: A Canadian History. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008. Pp. 256. Illustrations, photographs, notes, index. ISBN: 978-0-8020-9797-2; Paper: 978-0-8020-9545-9. This review begins with a warning: reading this book will make you hunger for a donut ....
Correction.(Correction notice)
Mar 22, 2009 ... In the fall 2008 issue (volume 37, number 1), the author of The Freedom to Smoke: Tobacco Consumption and ...
