Rooster Town: Winnipeg’s Lost Métis Suburb, 1900–1960
In the spring of 1959 the City of Winnipeg ordered the removal of fourteen families, mostly Métis, from land needed for the construction of a new high school in south Winnipeg. For at least a decade,...
View ArticleConstructing an Urban Drug Ecology in 1970s Canada
In 1970, youthful researchers carried out participant-observer studies of the drug scene in Vancouver, Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal, and Halifax. This ethnographic research, prepared for the federal...
View ArticleThe City, the Country, and Toronto’s Bloor Viaduct, 1897–1919
There are certain structures in cities that exemplify the grandiose designs of the city builders at the turn of the twentieth century. The Prince Edward or Bloor Viaduct is one of these structures...
View ArticleAn Alarming Lack of Feeling: Urban Travel, Emotions, and British National...
This article analyzes British narratives of voyages made to Paris during three periods: the Peace of Amiens (March 1802 to May 1803), the first Restoration (April 1814 to May 1815), and in the first...
View ArticleThe Everyday Usage of City-Centre Streets: Urban Behaviour in Provincial...
This article examines the user experience in the city-centre street space, focusing on three main themes: space usage; the behaviour of users and interventions to direct behaviour by urban authorities;...
View ArticleThe Role of Emotions in Protests against Modernist Urban Redevelopment in...
In the 1950s and 1960s modernist town planning reordered countless cities through urban renewal and freeway-building projects. Applying rational planning expertise generated emotional responses that...
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