Urban
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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![]() NEW! Decolonize Hipsters |
Few urban critters are more reviled than the hipster. They are notoriously difficult to define, and yet we know one when we see one. No wonder: they were among the global cultural phenomena that … | Grégory Pierrot | 148 | 2021 | View |
![]() Storming the Old Boys’ CitadelTwo Pioneer Women Architects of Nineteenth Century North America |
“Women” and “architecture” were once mutually exclusive terms. In an 1891 address, Louise Blanchard Bethune declared, “it is hardly safe to assert” that a … | Carla Blank; Tania Martin | 234 | 2014 | View |
![]() SweetheartsThe Builders, the Mob and the Men |
Toronto was Boomtown in the 1960s. The city was growing quickly, gobbling up farmland for suburbs, pushing through expressways, knocking down neighbourhoods to make way for high-rise apartments. … | Catherine Wismer | 272 | 2014 | View |
![]() The WardThe Life and Loss of Toronto's First Immigrant Neighbourhood |
- | Michael ed. McClelland | 321 | 2015 | View |
![]() The Ward UncoveredThe Archaeology of Everyday Life |
In early 2015, a team of archaeologists began digging test trenches on a non-descript parking lot next to Toronto City Hall — a site designated to become a major new court house. What they … | Holly Martelle; John Lorinc; Michael McClelland; Tatum Taylor | 305 | 2018 | View |
![]() Thirty Years’ WarThe Failed Public/Private Partnership that Spurred the Creation of the Toronto Transit Commission, 1891-1921 |
Between 1891 and 1921, the Toronto Railway Company operated Toronto’s streetcars under a franchise granted by the City. The arrangement brought the City a modern electric streetcar system, … | C. Ian Kyer | 257 | 2015 | View |
![]() NEW! Vancouver ViceCrime and Spectacle in the City's West End |
The late 1970s and early 1980s were a volatile period in the history of Vancouver, where broad social and cultural changes were afoot. This was perhaps most clearly evident in the West End, the … | Aaron Chapman | 256 | 2021 | View |
From ![]() ForewardFrom: Sweethearts |
Explains the process that led to the mafia finding a way into the housing industry. Also points to the fact that the book is an ethnic history where Jews and Italians sought to break the … | Catherine Wismer | 7 | 2014 | $0.70 Add |
From ![]() Introduction |
The introduction provides a brief history of architecture in the United States and Canada, the evolution of the laws, regulations, and standards that shaped modern architecture. It then provides … | Carla Blank; Tania Martin | 22 | 2014 | $2.20 Add |
From ![]() NEW! IntroductionFrom: Decolonize Hipsters |
In the Introduction, author Grégory Pierrot reflects on how his time in Portland inspired this book. The chapter provides a brief history of Portland and the state of Oregon, a brief … | Grégory Pierrot | 11 | 2021 | $1.10 Add |
From ![]() IntroductionFrom: Thirty Years' War |
Background to the legal battles between the City of Toronto and its transit provider in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. | C. Ian Kyer | 13 | 2015 | $1.30 Add |
From ![]() IntroductionFrom: The Ward |
- | John Lorinc | 13 | 2015 | $1.30 Add |
From ![]() Introduction: The Object is the SubjectFrom: The Ward Uncovered |
- | John Lorinc | 8 | 2018 | $0.80 Add |
From ![]() NEW! Prologue and IntroductionThe Davie Street Blues From: Vancouver Vice |
In the prologue and introduction, Chapman frames his narrative around two events in West End Vancouver: the discovery of a body in in 1984, and the unveiling of a memorial to sex workers in 2016. | Aaron Chapman | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |
From ![]() NEW! Electricity and SexFrom: Vancouver Vice |
This chapter provides a history of the West End, with a focus on the importance of electricity and sex in the neighbourhood’s development. | Aaron Chapman | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |
From ![]() Laying the Groundwork for Conflict, 1891–92From: Thirty Years' War |
Account of the end of the franchise of the Toronto Street Railway Company and the need to replace it. | C. Ian Kyer | 16 | 2015 | $1.60 Add |