URBAN HISTORY REVIEW-REVUE D HISTOIRE URBAINE最新文献

{"title":"Women's Inclusion and Participation in Municipal Elections: Historical Evidence from Eligible Voters Lists","authors":"Laura Conrad, Jack Lucas","doi":"10.3138/uhr-2022-0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/uhr-2022-0014","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Historians and social scientists have long been interested in patterns of women's inclusion and participation in the years that followed enfranchisement. Municipal elections—an important part of the larger history of women's enfranchisement and electoral participation—have generally been neglected in this research. In this research note, we show how samples from lists of eligible voters in Canadian city elections can serve as a valuable data source for understanding patterns of inclusion and participation among Canadian women. Using the cases of Calgary, Edmonton, and Vancouver, we demonstrate that processes of inclusion followed markedly different trajectories in each city in the early twentieth century, with very slow inclusion in Vancouver and more rapid inclusion in Calgary and Edmonton. We also provide evidence for a 2% gender gap in turnout in Calgary during the city's early post-enfranchisement decades. This analysis illustrates the value of widely available voters lists for research on women's democratic inclusion.RÉSUMÉ:Les spécialistes de l'histoire et des sciences sociales s'intéressent depuis longtemps aux modes d'inclusion et de participation des femmes à la démocratie dans les années qui suivent leur accession au suffrage. Les élections municipales, une part importante de l'histoire plus vaste du droit des femmes à voter et de leur participation électorale, sont généralement négligées dans leurs travaux. Dans cette note de recherche, nous montrons que des échantillons provenant de listes de personnes admissibles à voter aux élections municipales canadiennes constituent de précieuses sources de données pour comprendre les modalités de l'inclusion et de la participation des femmes canadiennes à la vie politique. En nous basant sur les cas de Calgary, d'Edmonton et de Vancouver, nous montrons que les processus d'inclusion suivent des trajectoires nettement différentes dans chacune de ces villes au début du XXe siècle–très lente à Vancouver et plus rapide à Calgary et à Edmonton. Nous montrons également qu'un écart de participation de 2 % existait entre les sexes, à Calgary, pendant les premières décennies suivant l'accession des femmes au droit de vote. Cette analyse illustre la valeur des documents facilement accessibles que sont les listes électorales pour la recherche sur l'inclusion démocratique des femmes.","PeriodicalId":42574,"journal":{"name":"URBAN HISTORY REVIEW-REVUE D HISTOIRE URBAINE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41779926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Terry Copp, with Alexander Maavara. Montreal at War: 1914–1918","authors":"E. Kirkland","doi":"10.3138/uhr-2023-0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/uhr-2023-0005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42574,"journal":{"name":"URBAN HISTORY REVIEW-REVUE D HISTOIRE URBAINE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47861482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"\"Whose city is it?\": Save Montreal and the Fight for Democratic City Planning","authors":"Eliot Perrin","doi":"10.3138/uhr-2021-0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/uhr-2021-0008","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:The group Save Montreal was founded in immediate reaction to the demolition of the William Van Horne mansion in September 1973. This article argues that while the group's formation is frequently cited as the birth of Montreal's heritage preservation movement, this label fails to fully encapsulate the group's motivations. Central to Save Montreal's activism were demands for community housing and public participation in the city's planning process. These appeals stemmed from the fact that Mayor Jean Drapeau's administration pursued a vision for the city based on modernist planning principles, namely automobility and the construction of megastructures. Such measures entailed the mass demolition of residences and businesses. In response, Save Montreal's membership pressured government actors and the private sector to abandon these policies in favour of the creation of housing co-operatives, community-oriented zonings and public consultations. These efforts reveal that, beyond architectural and historical considerations, democratic planning and housing were central to Montreal's urban conservation movement.RÉSUMÉ:Le groupe Sauvons Montréal a été créé en septembre 1973, en réaction directe à la démolition de la maison William-Van Horne. Cet article soutient que, bien que la formation de ce groupe soit souvent associée à la naissance du mouvement de conservation du patrimoine montréalais, c'est une étiquette qui ne rend pas justice à l'ensemble de ses motivations. Au coeur des démarches militantes de Sauvons Montréal figuraient en effet le logement communautaire et la participation du public au processus d'aménagement de la ville. Ces demandes étaient provoquées par le fait que l'administration du maire Jean Drapeau avait pour la ville une vision du développement basée sur les principes de la planification moderniste, essentiellement l'automobilité et la construction de mégastructures. Or ces mesures impliquaient la démolition massive de résidences et de commerces. En réaction, les membres de Sauvons Montréal ont fait pression sur les gouvernements et le secteur privé, exigeant l'abandon de ces politiques en faveur de la création de coopératives d'habitation, de zonages communautaires et de consultations publiques. Ces efforts révèlent qu'au-delà des considérations architecturales et historiques, l'aménagement et le logement urbains démocratiques étaient au centre des préoccupations de ce mouvement de conservation de la ville.","PeriodicalId":42574,"journal":{"name":"URBAN HISTORY REVIEW-REVUE D HISTOIRE URBAINE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46827678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Lorne Huston and Marie-Thérèse Lefebvre. George M. Brewer et le milieu culturel anglophone montréalais, 1900–1950","authors":"Lorraine O’Donnell","doi":"10.3138/uhr-2022-0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/uhr-2022-0025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42574,"journal":{"name":"URBAN HISTORY REVIEW-REVUE D HISTOIRE URBAINE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48835932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Steven High. Deindustrializing Montreal: Entangled Histories of Race, Residence, and Class","authors":"Tracy Neumann","doi":"10.3138/uhr-2022-0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/uhr-2022-0023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42574,"journal":{"name":"URBAN HISTORY REVIEW-REVUE D HISTOIRE URBAINE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43657927","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Review of Serge Dupuis et Sophie Blais. Les Dubreuil et le bois: Une histoire de Dubreuilville","authors":"Eliot Perrin","doi":"10.3138/uhr-2023-0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/uhr-2023-0002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42574,"journal":{"name":"URBAN HISTORY REVIEW-REVUE D HISTOIRE URBAINE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41653551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Concluding Comments","authors":"Richard M. Harris","doi":"10.3138/uhr-2022-0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/uhr-2022-0005","url":null,"abstract":"Collectively, the commentaries included in this special issue, along with Basecamp discussions and Zoom meetings, have produced a rich and varied portrait of urban history in Canada. In my survey, I focused narrowly on the work of those historical researchers who saw themselves as having primarily “urban” interests. Framed that way, the assessment and prognosis was gloomy. Most of the other contributors threw away the blinkers and reached a more optimistic conclusion. The exception was Phil Mackintosh, who, speaking about the state of historical geography in Canada, could find little comfort, within or beyond city limits. Out of the divergent views and debates, two important points of agreement emerged. The first was that, even narrowly defined, the state of urban historical research is better than I suggested. It may be true that it has always lacked an institutional base and that a national conference has not been held for many years, but the rise of the internet and social media supports connections, networks, and forums in ways once unthinkable. Similarly, as Jennifer Bonnell, Sean Kheraj, and Michèle Dagenais made clear in conversation, if the subfield has a limited presence at the University of Toronto, McGill, and the University of British Columbia, there are centres of activity elsewhere, notably York University and the Université de Québec à Montréal. Dagenais, and the Urban History Review’s co-editor, Harold Bérubé, also indicated that the general state of urban history in Québec is rather good, albeit heavily centred on Montreal. In conversation, Bérubé also suggested that the Review is doing better than merely surviving. Its editors receive a small but steady stream of sound, scholarly papers. And, the day before finalizing this essay, I finished reading Daniel Ross’s fine case study set in Toronto, which exemplifies an urban way of thinking.1 There is life in our subfield yet. The second conclusion is that, when a wider view is taken, a good deal of significant research is indeed being undertaken, and published, on the history of Canadian cities. Social historians, including those interested in gender issues, continue to play a role, while, as Mathieu Caron pointed out, they have expanded the scope of their enquiries to include previously neglected topics, including the gay community and sex workers. Caron also notes the growing interest in the history of Indigenous peoples. Many, of course, were displaced when white colonizers first established urban settlements, and in that sense made peripheral to urban life. Because their movements were constrained, only a few remained in, or moved to, urban places before World War II. In recent decades, however, they have become a significant urban presence, notably in the western provinces. Here, too, Concluding Comments","PeriodicalId":42574,"journal":{"name":"URBAN HISTORY REVIEW-REVUE D HISTOIRE URBAINE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42231739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Kyle Riismandel. Neighborhood of Fear: The Suburban Crisis in American Culture, 1975–2001","authors":"B. Bradley","doi":"10.3138/uhr-2022-0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/uhr-2022-0012","url":null,"abstract":"It the library of anyone interested in suburban history the history of David Schley’s rigorous, carefully researched book is a critical analysis of how the Baltimore and Ohio (B & O) Railroad, founded in 1828 as an urban development project rooted in the specificities of the city of Baltimore and funded by municipal coffers, became a private corporation that traversed state borders, opted for the payment of dividends to stakeholders rather than infrastructural improvements in its home city, and called upon federal troops to put down labour unrest. A scholarly contribution to the new history of capitalism, Steam City insists upon the urban origins of this railway company, initially designed to respond to the particularities of its home city, but which, over time, shed its local character and became a corporation with national ambitions. This book is also a reflection on the powers bestowed on private enterprise by governments and, in this sense, constitutes a warning about the dangers we face today in this second “Gilded Age,” when companies unmoored from local constraints, untouched by municipal regulation, and unresponsive to local needs criss-cross the globe in search of profits. Steam City consists of eight closely argued chapters, organized according to a structure that is both chronological and thematic. Readers of the Urban History Review/ Revue d’histoire urbaine will probably find most compelling the detailed portrait of Baltimore streets and neighbourhoods to be found in Chapter 2, entitled “Tracks in the Streets,” and in Chapter 5, entitled “The Smoking, Puffing Locomotive.” Here we see local conflicts between carters, draymen, hackmen, and pedestrians, on the one hand, and railways, on the other. Schley describes in detail the horses startled and the residents kept awake by hissing steam whistles and clanging railway bells, the accidents involving young boys hitching rides on railway cars, and the pedestrians tripping over the iron tracks newly embedded in the thoroughfares that they had used for decades.","PeriodicalId":42574,"journal":{"name":"URBAN HISTORY REVIEW-REVUE D HISTOIRE URBAINE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49269386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Philippe Girard. Leonard Cohen : Sur un fil","authors":"Nicolas Kenny","doi":"10.3138/uhr-2022-0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/uhr-2022-0010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42574,"journal":{"name":"URBAN HISTORY REVIEW-REVUE D HISTOIRE URBAINE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42878383","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"David Schley. Steam City: Railroads, Urban Space, and Corporate Capitalism in Nineteenth-Century Baltimore","authors":"M. Fahrni","doi":"10.3138/uhr-2022-0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/uhr-2022-0017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42574,"journal":{"name":"URBAN HISTORY REVIEW-REVUE D HISTOIRE URBAINE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48253725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}