Urban Studies / Urban History

This book sheds light on the history of the Square Mile, a powerful symbol of wealth in Montreal's urban landscape.

This book interrogates and questions the meaning and implications of suburban creativity.

What can we learn from the COVID-19 pandemic and its devastating effects on the homeless population in Toronto? Displacement City shares the stories of frontline workers, advocates, and people living without homes during this unprecedented crisis.

Streetcars and the Shifting Geographies of Toronto visually compares historic and contemporary images of different parts of Toronto to better understand how and why the city has changed.

Montreal at War chronicles the experiences of civilians, soldiers, and returned veterans in Montreal during the First World War.

Reading modern architecture and urbanism in socialist and capitalist cities, this work challenges the twentieth-century divide between East and West in favour of a shared and contested history that plays out on the peripheries of the world’s cities.

Accidental Wilderness showcases how the removal of city rubble and its displacement can result in new urban parklands with significant ecological importance for the health of the city and its residents.

This book chronicles the Amsterdam’s 17^th-century Canal District District’s origins and historical evolution over 400 years and debates its future prospects under pressures of global tourism, gentrification, and rapid economic change.

Considering the endurance of socialist spaces in contemporary, political, and cultural environments, this book investigates key aspects of socialist urbanism.

Originating in archaic parables of the Garden and the Citadel, gender allegories have been projected upon built environments throughout history.

This book re-examines the history of twentieth-century Lviv by focusing on the city’s main railway terminal. It approaches the terminal as an embodiment of the city’s built environment and a microcosm of society.

Four Days in Hitler’s Germany tells the engaging story of Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King’s failed diplomatic mission to Nazi Germany.

Urban Transformations delves into the ecology, sociology, politics, and architecture at the root of Berlin’s urbanization.

While focused on twentieth-century Halifax, Displacing Blackness develops broad insights about the possibilities and limitations of modern planning. Drawing connections between the history of planning and emerging scholarship in Black Studies, Ted Rutland positions anti-blackness at the heart of contemporary city-making.

Imperial Urbanism in the Borderlands is the first work to approach the history of Kyiv from an interdisciplinary perspective and showcases Kyiv’s rightful place as a city worthy of attention from historians, urbanists, and literary scholars.

In What’s in a Name? editors Richard Harris and Charlotte Vorms have gathered together experts from around the world in order to provide a truly global framework for the study of the urban periphery.