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  • Urbanism and the Changing Canadian Society

    Edited by S.D. Clark ...
    Series series Heritage
    In this collection of essays the changing structure of the Canadian community, especially in its urban growth, is brought before the reader with many fresh insights, much vigorous comment, and apt illustration. The authors, concentrating on certain kinds of problems which have interested them individually, provide for student and general reader stimulating analysis of social phenomena which are ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Cities in the Suburbs

    Series series Heritage
    We are all familiar with the almost ritual lament about the desolation and sameness of the suburbs that surround our modern cities. Is this complaint inevitable or can something be done to lend variety, colour, and meaning to these spreading areas? In a book full of good questions and apt illustrations, Mr. Carver examines what has provided a sense of community for city groupings of the past and ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Suburban Society

    by S.D. Clark ...
    Series series Heritage
    By questioning the widely accepted picture of suburban society which has been developed by many sociologists, social psychologists, and other serious students of social science, as well as by popular writers, this book will challenge much of our thinking about certain trends and developments in present-day society. The author, a distinguished Canadian sociologist, shows that there is no essential ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Dimensions of Urban Social Structure

    The Social Areas of Melbourne, Australia

    by Frank Jones ...
    Series series Heritage
    The physical segregation of social groups in industrial cities has long attracted the attention of social scientist and casual observer alike. In Australia the possibility of mapping the social ecology of large cities has been limited by the absence of sufficiently detailed census of information, a gap remedied in 1961 by the provision of a new range of small area data.Here the author exploits the ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Town and Country Planning in England and Wales

    (Third Edition, Revised)

    Series series Heritage
    The British Town and Country Planning machine is the most sophisticated in the world, yet its inadequacies are only too apparent to those who are familiar with its evolution and operation. During the last decade it has been in a constant state of change in an attempt to come to terms with the needs of a rapidly changing society.This work attempts to provide a comprehensive picture of the planning ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • The City Below The Hill

    The Slums of Montreal, 1897

    Series series Heritage
    The city below the hill is a detailed investigation of social conditions in a working class quarter of Montreal during the 1890s. Based on a house-to-house survey of the neighbourhood, this study catalogues and analyses the life of working people after the first years of rapid industrialization.Sir Herbert Brown Ames was one of the first to recognize that urbanization was inevitable and to set ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Urban Systems Development in Central Canada

    Selected Papers

    Edited by Larry Bourne, Ross MacKinnon ...
    Series series Heritage
    This anthology of research is divided into five sections: definition of the urban system, structural characteristics, distribution of urban growth, transportation networks and interaction between cities, and the impact of growth on urban behaviour and the rural economy. Each section is preceded by the editors' comments. This is an excellent general reference on urbanization in Canada; it ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Form of Cities in Central Canada

    Selected Papers

    Series series Heritage
    Do Canadian cities have a distinctive form? How has this form evolved over time; and what has been the impact of growth, transportation changes and differing lifestyles on the contemporary Canadian urban environment? The research summarized in the present volume is directed at these kinds of questions. This book is an anthology of research papers and reports building around a common theme: urban ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Urban Futures for Central Canada

    Perspectives on Forecasting Urban Growth and Form

    Series series Heritage
    Urban problems are now a dominant social issue: the essays in this volume consider the direction some of these problems may take in Central Canada. Three broad themes are discussed: forecasting (a spectrum of methodologies and urban forecasts); assessing the consequences of these forecasts at two levels (the growth of cities as an urban system and the growth and form of individual cities or urban ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Compassionate Landscape

    Series series Heritage
    From the top of the Clent Hills in England, one can look out over the Black Country to the north and the Forest of Arden to the south. As a boy Humphrey Carver looked at these two landscapes – one synonymous with the harsh ugliness and dehumanization brought by industry, the other with idyllic harmony between man and land. At the start of the depression Carver came to Canada where, in many and ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Streetcar Suburbs

    The Process of Growth in Boston, 1870–1900, Second Edition

    In the last third of the nineteenth century Boston grew from a crowded merchant town, in which nearly everybody walked to work, to the modern divided metropolis. The street railway created this division of the metropolis into an inner city of commerce and slums and an outer city of commuters’ suburbs. Streetcar Suburbs tells who built the new city, and why, and how.Included here is a new ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Urban Housing Markets

    Recent Directions in Research and Policy

    Edited by Larry Bourne, John Hitchcock ...
    Series series Heritage
    The Conference on Urban Housing Markets sponsored by the Centre for Urban and Community Studies in October 1977 was the first major conference on housing to be held in Canada since the First Canadian Housing Conference sponsored by the Canadian Welfare Council in 1968.This volume is at once a record of the Conference and a review of important recent research on urban housing markets and related ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Big Daddy

    Frederick G. Gardiner and the Building of Metropolitan Toronto

    Series series Heritage
    Frederick Gardiner's public life was rich and long, from his initiation into politics as a Toronto schoolboy before the First World War, through his involvement with the Ontario Conservative party and suburban politics in the 1930s and 1940s, on through his years as first chairman of Metropolitan Toronto (1953-61), to the relinquishing of his last public office in 1979.This is a readable and ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • City People

    The Rise of Modern City Culture in Nineteenth-Century America

    by Gunther Barth ...
    This study explains the parallel development of urbanization and modernization in late nineteenth-century American society, demonstrating how the successful features of big-city life spread across the country and transformed towns all over America. ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • London Labour and the London Poor

    by Henry Mayhew ...
    London Labour and the London Poor originated in a series of newspaper articles written by the great journalist Henry Mayhew between 1849 and 1850. A dozen years later, it had grown into the fullest picture we have of labouring people in the world's greatest city in the nineteenth century: a four volume account of the hopes, customs, grievances and habits of the working-classes that allows them to ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Steel City

    Hamilton and Region

    Edited by M.J. Dear, J.J. Drake, L.G. Reeds ...
    Series series Heritage
    From its establishment nearly 200 years ago as a village at the centre of an agricultural district, Hamilton has grown into one of Canada's biggest industrial centres, at the heart of a highly developed regional municipality. The story of its changing landscapes, both physical and human, is presented in the nineteen essays that make up this volume, all by geographers associated with Hamilton's ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Moral Order of a Suburb

    Surrounding all major cities in the United States are numerous smaller communities collectively known as suburbia. The most popular place of residence in America, the suburbs are peaceful and tranquil environments, where civility prevails and disturbances of the peace are uncommon. Drawing on research, observation, and hundreds of in-depth interviews conducted during a twelve-month study of an ... Read more

    $175.99 USD $85.99 USD

  • The Classic Slum

    Salford Life in the First Quarter of the Century

    A study which combines personal reminiscences with careful historical research, the myth of the 'good old days' is summarily dispensed with; Robert Roberts describes the period of his childhood, when the main affect of poverty in Edwardian Salford was degredation, and, despite great resources of human courage, few could escape such a prison. ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Critical Issues in Social Theory

    Critical Issues in Social Theory is an analytical survey of persistent controversies that have shaped the field of sociology. It defines, clarifies, and proposes solutions to these "critical issues" through commentary on the writings of such influential social theorists as Hobbes, Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Mead, Merton, Parsons, and Schutz.Instead of being just another history, or another ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Frontier and Metropolis

    Regions, Cities, and Identities in Canada before 1914

    Series series Heritage
    The regional character of Canada and the crucial role of metropolitan development in its history have been recurring themes in the work of J.M.S. Careless. In these essays he returns to those themes, discussing how national and regional identity in Canada show vital links with metropolitan-hinterland relationship across time and space.The first essay presents an overall appraisal of the historic ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Spirit World

    by Michael Smith ...
    The author of New Orleans Jazz Fest documents the thriving cultural richness of the Black Big Easy and captures the expressions of urban folk culture.Many Black neighborhoods in New Orleans are perceived by outsiders as being areas of decay. However, to photographer Michael P. Smith, in these neighborhoods remained the preserves of a rich cultural heritage. Smith, who photographed the subject for ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Urban Masses and Moral Order in America, 1820-1920

    by Paul Boyer ...
    For over a century, dark visions of moral collapse and social disintegration in American cities spurred an anxious middle class to search for ways to restore order. In this important book, Paul Boyer explores the links between the urban reforms of the Progressive era and the long efforts of prior generations to tame the cities. He integrates the ideologies of urban crusades with an examination of ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • To Be Mayor of New York

    Ethnic Politics in the City

    Series series Columbia History of Urban Life
    From Tammany Hall to the election of David Dinkins, To Be Mayor of New York offers insights into the effect of ethnic competition on the demise of urban political machines.Beginning with a colorful assessment of New York City's Tammany Hall as it existed in the late nineteenth century, McNickle traces the effect of the arrival of large numbers of Jewish and Italian immigrants -and later black and ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Boundaries of the City

    The Architecture of Western Urbanism

    Series series Heritage
    In this study Alan Waterhouse draws on anthropological, social and cultural history, literature, and philosophy to reach an understanding of the roots of Western architecture and city building. He explores the illusion that cities are constructed to impose rational order, an order articulated through urban boundaries. These boundaries, he finds, are shaped around our instinctive fears and ... Read more

    $38.99 USD