Project MUSE®: Urban History Review - Latest Articles
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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Urban History Review.daily12026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 47 (2018-19) - vol. 53 (2025)Latest Articles: Urban History ReviewTWOProject MUSE®Urban History Review1918-51380703-0428Latest articles in Urban History Review. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Spotlight on Vancouver: Introduction
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/970359
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The McBarge has capsized, and as I write, it is sinking into the muddy bottom of the Fraser River.Of the many legacies and memories of the 1986 world exposition in Vancouver, few things are as widely recognized and recalled as the floating McDonald's restaurant. What fame it enjoyed at the time only grew as the barge was subsequently towed hither and thither, stored on Burrard Inlet, up Indian Arm, and then on the Fraser. It became the sort of thing one just happens upon, eliciting surprise and disbelief. Reports of its derelict reappearance always prompted excitement on social media. It was never lovely, but it was, strangely, loved.It has been 40 years since Expo (née Transpo) 86. Enough time to allow historians
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/790/image/coversmallSpotlight on Vancouver: Introduction2025-09-30text/htmlen-USSpotlight on Vancouver: Introduction2025-09-302025TWOProject MUSE®208532026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-09-30Vancouver's Veloligarchy: The Role of Cycling Clubs in Early Elite Formation
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But for the way she died, Rachel Shannon's life would be unknown to us. At 12:45 p.m. on September 24, 1900, she was hit by a cyclist as she crossed Richards Street near Cordova. The tragedy of "Miss Shannon" received front-page coverage in Vancouver newspapers for a week.In this instance and through much of the 20th century, charges were routinely brought against anyone who neglectfully caused the death of another while in charge of a vehicle of any kind. This practice extended to collisions and deaths caused by cyclists.2 The Coroner's Court was therefore quickly assembled to consider whether a charge of manslaughter should be brought against Shannon's killer, 21-year-old E.E. "Ted" Blackmore. He had cause to be
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/790/image/coversmallVancouver's Veloligarchy: The Role of Cycling Clubs in Early Elite Formation2025-09-30text/htmlen-USVancouver's Veloligarchy: The Role of Cycling Clubs in Early Elite Formation2025-09-302025TWOProject MUSE®1376452026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-09-30Sense and Social Control in Vancouver's Carnegie Free Library, 1901–1910
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This article examines the conflict between the reformative expectations that came to bear on Vancouver's Carnegie Library and its use by community members and workers through an excavation of the sensory archive. Aware of new developments in their own neighbourhood, East End residents were increasingly critical of the socially reformative aspirations that attended the construction of a public library, especially one sponsored by Carnegie. Workers' criticisms were expressed in newspaper reporting on the library's construction, and evidence of the way they used the library is moreover discernible from photographic evidence and library correspondence. Class tensions permeated discussions surrounding the building's
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/790/image/coversmallSense and Social Control in Vancouver's Carnegie Free Library, 1901–19102025-09-30text/htmlen-USSense and Social Control in Vancouver's Carnegie Free Library, 1901–19102025-09-302025TWOProject MUSE®948732026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-09-30Aloha from Vancouver: Celebrating a Modern Pacific Metropolis at the Vancouver Golden Jubilee of 1936
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At 10:19 a.m. Hawaiian Standard Time on November 23, 1935, a Pan American Airways Martin M-130 flying boat landed at Pearl Harbor, just west of Honolulu. The plane, christened the China Clipper, had taken off the previous afternoon from Alameda Airfield near San Francisco on a five-stage journey to Manila, inaugurating transpacific airmail service. Its cargo included over 100,000 pieces of mail, mostly of purely philatelic interest: stamp collectors and stamp dealers throughout the United States sent themselves letters on the flight to receive the coveted "first flight" cachet. However, some real mail made the trip also, including a brief letter addressed to a local celebrity, Duke P. Kahanamoku.1Kahanamoku was a
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/790/image/coversmallAloha from Vancouver: Celebrating a Modern Pacific Metropolis at the Vancouver Golden Jubilee of 19362025-09-30text/htmlen-USAloha from Vancouver: Celebrating a Modern Pacific Metropolis at the Vancouver Golden Jubilee of 19362025-09-302025TWOProject MUSE®1403252026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-09-30The Rising (Street) Generation: The Vancouver Runaway Revolution and 1970s' Child Saving
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The devastating plight of street-involved youth today regularly enters public consciousness through news and popular media, a trend that began in the 1960s. Although the period since the 60s has been marked by gains for youth in the realm of children's rights, improved health, sexual education and choice, and liberalizing attitudes toward recreational drugs and youth culture, it also held deep fissures along class, race, and gender lines that resulted in social exclusion, family breakdown, economic precarity, and a deep cultural ambivalence toward youth. This paradox can be seen in the construction, transformation, and treatment of the runaway "problem" at the end of the twentieth century.In 1989, Vancouver teen
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/790/image/coversmallThe Rising (Street) Generation: The Vancouver Runaway Revolution and 1970s' Child Saving2025-09-30text/htmlen-USThe Rising (Street) Generation: The Vancouver Runaway Revolution and 1970s' Child Saving2025-09-302025TWOProject MUSE®1260242026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-09-30The Vancouver Special—Blight or Brilliant?
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In January 2015, artist Ken Lum launched a new piece titled "Vancouver Especially," in a public art space located in Chinatown.1 "Vancouver Especially" was Lum's second public art installation in Vancouver; his "Monument to East Vancouver," installed in 2010, sought to draw attention to the "problems of injustice, inequality, subjugation, and the trauma of poverty and acculturation, partially as it relates to immigrant life" by taking what began as a "tentative" graffiti symbol to become an overt representation of East Vancouver.2 While the 57-foot sculpture highlighted the differences between the two residential sides of the city, his second installation referenced an affordable single-family dwelling type that
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/790/image/coversmallThe Vancouver Special—Blight or Brilliant?2025-09-30text/htmlen-USThe Vancouver Special—Blight or Brilliant?2025-09-302025TWOProject MUSE®1004482026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-09-30"Culture as a Precursor to Augmented Trade Relations": Indonesian Musics, Multicultural Festivals, and Vancouver's Changing Transpacific Identity, 1984–1986
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In June 1985 the renowned Indonesian musician and dalang1 I Wayan Wija found himself perplexed in Vancouver's oceanside Vanier Park. Scheduled to give 11 performances and demonstrations of his Balinese shadow play over the course of a single week, he was struggling to edit his work to fit within the drastically truncated timeframe provided to him by the newly inaugurated economic development-focused 1985 Asia Pacific Festival. Speaking to his friend, theatre critic Eileen Blumenthal, he noted that this challenge had been causing him to lose sleep as a result of "trying to figure out how to condense his four-hour Wayang Tantri [shadow play]. 'Dimana (where) cut? Dimana cut?'"2Only a year later, visiting dalang
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/790/image/coversmall"Culture as a Precursor to Augmented Trade Relations": Indonesian Musics, Multicultural Festivals, and Vancouver's Changing Transpacific Identity, 1984–19862025-09-30text/htmlen-US"Culture as a Precursor to Augmented Trade Relations": Indonesian Musics, Multicultural Festivals, and Vancouver's Changing Transpacific Identity, 1984–19862025-09-302025TWOProject MUSE®995492026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-09-30Their Benevolent Design: Conservative Women and Protestant Child Charities in Montreal by Janice Harvey (review)
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Harvey's study centres two prominent charities in child and family services in Montreal, the Protestant Orphan Asylum (POA) (est. 1822) and Montreal Ladies Benevolent Society (LBS) (est. 1832). Tracing their evolution until the 1921 Public Charities Act (Quebec), which marked the shift to more extensive state financing based on new models around how to address child poverty and childcare, Harvey's fresh take on the development of social services is rooted in an extensive range of primary source material and a specific focus on the area of private female charity. Harvey guides us with a steady hand through the broader context of benevolence in the city of Montreal, defined by the particular interest of Lower
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/790/image/coversmallTheir Benevolent Design: Conservative Women and Protestant Child Charities in Montreal by Janice Harvey (review)2025-09-30text/htmlen-USTheir Benevolent Design: Conservative Women and Protestant Child Charities in Montreal by Janice Harvey (review)2025-09-302025TWOProject MUSE®74602026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-09-30Wheeling Through Toronto: A History of the Bicycle and Its Riders by Albert Koehl (review)
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Here is a remarkable book focusing on bicycling in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Written by Albert Koehl, an environmental lawyer of 30 years and adjunct professor at Osgood Hall Law School (2008–2018) and published by University of Toronto Press. Koehl's impressive résumé includes serving on the Ontario Chief Coroner's expert panel on pedestrian safety. Koehl is a community leader who takes an interest in road safety for cyclists and was a founding member of the Toronto Communities Bikeways Coalition. In 2016 Koehl was nominated CBC Radio's Metro Morning Torontonian of the Year. When interviewed he provided a prescient opinion of cycling in Toronto, explaining, "If we reduce [problems] to a local scale, we can do all
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/790/image/coversmallWheeling Through Toronto: A History of the Bicycle and Its Riders by Albert Koehl (review)2025-09-30text/htmlen-USWheeling Through Toronto: A History of the Bicycle and Its Riders by Albert Koehl (review)2025-09-302025TWOProject MUSE®83642026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-09-30Toronto Living With AIDS ed. by Ryan Conrad (review)
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Ryan Conrad's Toronto Living With AIDS is an insightful behind-the-scenes look at the individuals, activism, and messaging of the Toronto Living With AIDS (TWLA) television series that appeared on Rogers and MacLean-Hunter cable networks in Toronto, Ontario, from 1990–1991. Conrad argues that this video series represented the "largest and most organized community-based effort to create audiovisual work about the AIDS crisis in Canada" (10). Rather than provide a conventional history of TWLA, Conrad writes (and structures) this book as a call to action and as evidence of the ways in which HIV/AIDS activism and art intersected in the 1980s and 1990s. Conrad structures the book in three sections, beginning with a
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/790/image/coversmallToronto Living With AIDS ed. by Ryan Conrad (review)2025-09-30text/htmlen-USToronto Living With AIDS ed. by Ryan Conrad (review)2025-09-302025TWOProject MUSE®79892026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-09-30