Author: Samuel Edward Dawson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Montreal
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Hand-book for the City of Montreal and Its Environs
Author: Samuel Edward Dawson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Montreal
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Montreal
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Hand-book for the City of Montreal and Its Environs
Author: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Publisher: Published for the Local Committee
ISBN:
Category : Montreal
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher: Published for the Local Committee
ISBN:
Category : Montreal
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Metropolitan Natures
Author: Stephane Castonguay
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822977710
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
One of the oldest metropolitan areas in North America, Montreal has evolved from a remote fur-trading post in New France into an international center for services and technology. A city and an island located at the confluence of the Ottawa and St. Lawrence Rivers, it is uniquely situated to serve as an international port while also providing rail access to the Canadian interior. The historic capital of the Province of Canada, once Canada's foremost metropolis, Montreal has a multifaceted cultural heritage drawn from European and North American influences. Thanks to its rich past, the city offers an ideal setting for the study of an evolving urban environment. Metropolitan Natures presents original histories of the diverse environments that constitute Montreal and it region. It explores the agricultural and industrial transformation of the metropolitan area, the interaction of city and hinterland, and the interplay of humans and nature. The fourteen chapters cover a wide range of issues, from landscape representations during the colonial era to urban encroachments on the Kahnawake Mohawk reservation on the south shore of the island, from the 1918-1920 Spanish flu epidemic and its ensuing human environmental modifications to the urban sprawl characteristic of North America during the postwar period. Situations that politicize the environment are discussed as well, including the economic and class dynamics of flood relief, highways built to facilitate recreational access for the middle class, power-generating facilities that invade pristine rural areas, and the elitist environmental hegemony of fox hunting. Additional chapters examine human attempts to control the urban environment through street planning, waterway construction, water supply, and sewerage.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822977710
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
One of the oldest metropolitan areas in North America, Montreal has evolved from a remote fur-trading post in New France into an international center for services and technology. A city and an island located at the confluence of the Ottawa and St. Lawrence Rivers, it is uniquely situated to serve as an international port while also providing rail access to the Canadian interior. The historic capital of the Province of Canada, once Canada's foremost metropolis, Montreal has a multifaceted cultural heritage drawn from European and North American influences. Thanks to its rich past, the city offers an ideal setting for the study of an evolving urban environment. Metropolitan Natures presents original histories of the diverse environments that constitute Montreal and it region. It explores the agricultural and industrial transformation of the metropolitan area, the interaction of city and hinterland, and the interplay of humans and nature. The fourteen chapters cover a wide range of issues, from landscape representations during the colonial era to urban encroachments on the Kahnawake Mohawk reservation on the south shore of the island, from the 1918-1920 Spanish flu epidemic and its ensuing human environmental modifications to the urban sprawl characteristic of North America during the postwar period. Situations that politicize the environment are discussed as well, including the economic and class dynamics of flood relief, highways built to facilitate recreational access for the middle class, power-generating facilities that invade pristine rural areas, and the elitist environmental hegemony of fox hunting. Additional chapters examine human attempts to control the urban environment through street planning, waterway construction, water supply, and sewerage.
Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts, Maps and Drawings in the British Museum (Natural History) ...
Author: British Museum (Natural History). Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural History
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural History
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Official Guide to Montreal
Author: International Geological Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Montréal (Québec)
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Montréal (Québec)
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Catalogue of books in the circulating department of the Hamilton public library
Author: Hamilton Ontario, publ. libr
Publisher: Hamilton, Ont. : Griffin & Kidner
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Publisher: Hamilton, Ont. : Griffin & Kidner
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
The Feel of the City
Author: Nicolas Kenny
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442669063
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
At the start of the twentieth century, the modern metropolis was a riot of sensation. City dwellers lived in an environment filled with smoky factories, crowded homes, and lively thoroughfares. Sights, sounds, and smells flooded their senses, while changing conceptions of health and decorum forced many to rethink their most banal gestures, from the way they negotiated speeding traffic to the use they made of public washrooms. The Feel of the City exposes the sensory experiences of city-dwellers in Montreal and Brussels at the turn of the century and the ways in which these shaped the social and cultural significance of urban space. Using the experiences of municipal officials, urban planners, hygienists, workers, writers, artists, and ordinary citizens, Nicolas Kenny explores the implications of the senses for our understanding of modernity.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442669063
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
At the start of the twentieth century, the modern metropolis was a riot of sensation. City dwellers lived in an environment filled with smoky factories, crowded homes, and lively thoroughfares. Sights, sounds, and smells flooded their senses, while changing conceptions of health and decorum forced many to rethink their most banal gestures, from the way they negotiated speeding traffic to the use they made of public washrooms. The Feel of the City exposes the sensory experiences of city-dwellers in Montreal and Brussels at the turn of the century and the ways in which these shaped the social and cultural significance of urban space. Using the experiences of municipal officials, urban planners, hygienists, workers, writers, artists, and ordinary citizens, Nicolas Kenny explores the implications of the senses for our understanding of modernity.
Classed List
Author: Princeton University. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Transactions of the Astronomical and Physical Society of Toronto
Author: Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Faxon's Illustrated Hand-Book of Summer Travel, to the Lakes, Springs and Mountains of New England and New York
Author: Edward S. Sears
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338524238X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338524238X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.