selected scholarly activity
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academic article
- Using Toronto to explore three suburban stereotypes, and vice versa. Environment and Planning A. 47:30-49. 2015
- Segregation and the Social Relations of Place, Bombay, 1890-1910. South Asia: Journal of South Asia Studies. 36:589-607. 2013
- The Rise of Filtering Down The American Housing Market Transformed, 1915-1929. Social Science History. 37:515-549. 2013
- The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 37:1102-1103. 2013
- A happy confluence of planning and statistics: Bombay and Calcutta in the 1901 census. Planning Perspectives. 28:125-138. 2013
- Introduction. Planning Perspectives. 28:113-116. 2013
- Numbers didn't count: the streets of colonial Bombay and Calcutta. Urban History Urban History Yearbook. 39:639-658. 2012
- Review Article: The City Resurgent. Urban Studies. 49:3233-3242. 2012
- "Ragged urchins play on marquetry floors": The discourse of filtering is reconstructed, 1920s-1950s. Housing Policy Debate. 22:463-482. 2012
- THE HISTORY IN URBAN STUDIES: A COMMENT. Journal of Urban Affairs. 33:99-105. 2011
- The talk of the town: kit manufacturers negotiate the building industry, 1905-1929.. Journal of Urban History. 36:868-896. 2010
- The Birth of the North American Home Improvement Store, 1905-1929. Enterprise and Society. 10:687-728. 2009
- The birth of the housing consumer in the United States, 1918-1960. International Journal of Consumer Studies. 33:525-532. 2009
- Style for the zeitgeist: The stealthy revival of historicist housing since the late 1960s. Professional Geographer. 60:314-332. 2008
- THE SUBURBAN CULTURE OF BUILDING AND THE REASSURING REVIVAL OF HISTORICIST ARCHITECTURE SINCE 1970. Home Cultures. 5:167-196. 2008
- From trusteeship to development: how class and gender complicated Kenya's housing policy, 1939-1963. Journal of Historical Geography. 34:311-337. 2008
- Development and hybridity made concrete in the colonies. Environment and Planning A. 40:15-36. 2008
- Tulips in Winter: A Sales Job for the Tract House. Buildings & Landscapes. 15:1-10. 2008
- Hybrid housing - Improvement and control in late colonial Zanzibar. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. 66:476-493. 2007
- From miser to spendthrift - Public housing and the vulnerability of colonialism in Barbados, 1935 to 1965. Journal of Urban History. 33:443-466. 2007
- The rise of housing in international development: The effects of economic discourse. Habitat International. 31:1-11. 2007
- Cities as the industrial districts of housebuilding. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 30:894-917. 2006
- Housing and economic development: The evolution of an idea since 1945. Habitat International. 30:1007-1017. 2006
- Housing as a tool of economic development since 1929. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 29:895-+. 2005
- How healthy were the suburbs?. Journal of Urban History. 31:767-798. 2005
- Making Leeway in the Leewards, 1929-51: The negotiation of colonial development. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. 33:393-418. 2005
- House building in the machine age, 1920s-1970s: Realities and perceptions of modernisation in North America and Australia. Businesss History. 47:59-+. 2005
- The suburban origins of redlining: A Canadian case study, 1935-54. Urban Studies. 40:2661-2686. 2003
- From 'black-balling' to 'marking': the suburban origin of redlining in Canada, 1930s-1950s. Canadian Geographer / Geographie Canadien. 47:338-350. 2003
- The suburban worker in the history of labor. International Labor and Working-Class History. 8-24. 2003
- Verandahs of power: Colonialism and space in urban Africa. Urban History Review/Revue d'Histoire Urbaine. 32:65-67. 2003
- A double irony: the originality and influence of John F.C. Turner. Habitat International. 27:245-269. 2003
- A mixed message: the agents and forms of international housing policy, 1945-1973. Habitat International. 27:167-191. 2003
- Learning from the past: international housing policy since 1945 - an introduction. Habitat International. 27:163-166. 2003
- Small is transient: Housebuilding firms in Ontario, Canada 1978-98. Housing Studies. 18:369-386. 2003
- The urban geography of low-income housing: Cairo (1947-96) exemplifies a model. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 26:58-79. 2002
- Response: the boundary effect and vertical inequity in the residential property tax. Environment and Planning A. 34:367-368. 2002
- No terror souses - Australian urban history in comparative perspective. Journal of Urban History. 28:247-257. 2002
- Flattered but not imitated: Co-operative self-help and the Nova Scotia Housing Commission, 1936-1973. Acadiensis. 31:103-128. 2001
- Canada's reluctant housing program: The Veterans' Land Act, 1942-75. The Canadian Historical Review. 82:253-282. 2001
- Social and geographic inequities in the residential property tax: a review and case study. Environment and Planning A. 33:881-900. 2001
- Special issue: North American cities and suburbs - Introduction. Journal of Urban History. 27:259-261. 2001
- The geography of North American cities and suburbs, 1900-1950 - A new synthesis. Journal of Urban History. 27:262-292. 2001
- A test for geographers: the geography of educational achievement in Toronto and Hamilton, 1997. Canadian Geographer / Geographie Canadien. 44:210-227. 2000
- More American than the United States - Housing in urban Canada in the twentieth century. Journal of Urban History. 26:456-478. 2000
- To market! To market! The changing role of the Australian timber merchant, 1945-c.1965. Australian Economic History Review. 40:22-50. 2000
- Housing and social policy: An historical perspective on Canadian-American differences - A comment. Urban Studies. 36:1169-1175. 1999
- Slipping through the cracks: The origins of aided self-help housing, 1918-53. Housing Studies. 14:281-309. 1999
- Constructing a fault(y) zone: Misrepresentations of American cities and suburbs, 1900-1950. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 88:622-639. 1998
- Invincible green suburbs, brave new towns: social change and urban dispersal in postwar England. Environment and Planning A. 30:2092-2093. 1998
- A crank's fate and the feting of a visionary: reflections on the history of aided self-help housing. Third World Planning Review International Development Planning Review. 20:III-VIII. 1998
- The silence of the experts: "Aided self-help housing", 1939-1954. Habitat International. 22:165-189. 1998
- Where credit is due: Residential mortgage finance in Canada, 1901 to 1954. Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics. 16:223-238. 1998
- History of urban housing in Canada: Introduction. Urban History Review/Revue d'Histoire Urbaine. 25:3-4. 1997
- The journey to work - A historical methodology. Historical Methods. 30:97-109. 1997
- The impact of industrial decentralization on the gendered journey to work, 1900-1940. Economic Geography. 73:94-117. 1997
- CHICAGO OTHER SUBURBS. Geographical Review. 84:394-410. 1994
- THE MAKING OF A WORKING-CLASS SUBURB IN HAMILTONS EAST-END, 1900-1945. Journal of Urban History. 20:486-511. 1994
- URBAN LANDSCAPES - INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES - WHITEHAND,JWR, LARKHAM,PJ. Urban History Review/Revue d'Histoire Urbaine. 22:64-65. 1993
- DESCRIBING THE CANADIAN CITY - THE HOUSING ATLASES OF 1941. Canadian Geographer / Geographie Canadien. 37:143-147. 1993
- INDUSTRY AND RESIDENCE - THE DECENTRALIZATION OF NEW-YORK-CITY, 1900-1940. Journal of Historical Geography. 19:169-190. 1993
- HAMILTON EAST-END - THE EARLY WORKING-CLASS SUBURB. Canadian Geographer / Geographie Canadien. 36:381-386. 1992
- THE END JUSTIFIED THE MEANS - BOARDING AND ROOMING IN A CITY OF HOMES, 1890-1951. Journal of Social History. 26:331-358. 1992
- CANADA ALL RIGHT - THE LIVES AND LOYALTIES OF IMMIGRANT FAMILIES IN A TORONTO SUBURB, 1900-1945. Canadian Geographer / Geographie Canadien. 36:13-30. 1992
- A WORKING-CLASS SUBURB FOR IMMIGRANTS, TORONTO 1909-1913. Geographical Review. 81:318-332. 1991
- SELF-BUILDING IN THE URBAN HOUSING-MARKET. Economic Geography. 67:1-21. 1991
- WORKING-CLASS HOME OWNERSHIP IN THE AMERICAN METROPOLIS. Journal of Urban History. 17:46-69. 1990
- DEMOCRACY IN KINGSTON - A SOCIAL-MOVEMENT IN URBAN-POLITICS 1965-70 - HARRIS,R. Political Geography Quarterly. 9:197-202. 1990
- HOUSEHOLD WORK STRATEGIES AND SUBURBAN HOMEOWNERSHIP IN TORONTO, 1899-1913. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 8:97-121. 1990
- THE LOCAL CULTURE OF PROPERTY - A COMPARATIVE HISTORY OF HOUSING TENURE IN MONTREAL AND TORONTO. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 80:73-95. 1990
- SELF-BUILDING AND THE SOCIAL GEOGRAPHY OF TORONTO, 1901-1913 - A CHALLENGE FOR URBAN THEORY. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 15:387-402. 1990
- AMERICAN SUBURBS - A SKETCH OF A NEW INTERPRETATION. Journal of Urban History. 15:98-103. 1988
- THE INTERPRETATION OF CANADIAN URBAN REFORM - A REPLY. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 12:485-489. 1988
- A SOCIAL-MOVEMENT IN URBAN-POLITICS - A REINTERPRETATION OF URBAN REFORM IN CANADA. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 11:363-381. 1987
- DESCRIBING THE GEOGRAPHY OF HOUSING IN CANADA - THE HIFE FILES. Canadian Geographer / Geographie Canadien. 31:262-267. 1987
- THE MYTH OF THE PROMISED LAND - THE SOCIAL DIFFUSION OF HOME OWNERSHIP IN BRITAIN AND NORTH-AMERICA. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 77:173-190. 1987
- BOOM AND BUST - THE EFFECTS OF HOUSE PRICE INFLATION ON HOMEOWNERSHIP PATTERNS IN MONTREAL, TORONTO, AND VANCOUVER. Canadian Geographer / Geographie Canadien. 30:302-315. 1986
- HOW RELIABLE IS THE MODERN CITY DIRECTORY. Canadian Geographer / Geographie Canadien. 30:154-155. 1986
- WORKING-CLASS HOME OWNERSHIP AND HOUSING AFFORDABILITY ACROSS CANADA IN 1931. Histoire Sociale. 19:121-138. 1986
- HOUSING IN CANADIAN CITIES - AN AGENDA AND REVIEW OF SOURCES. Urban History Review/Revue d'Histoire Urbaine. 14:259-266. 1986
- HOME OWNERSHIP AND CLASS IN MODERN CANADA. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 10:67-86. 1986
- A POLITICAL CHAMELEON - CLASS SEGREGATION IN KINGSTON, ONTARIO, 1961-1976. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 74:454-476. 1984
- CITY-POLITICS IN CANADA - MAGNUSSON,W, SANCTON,A. Canadian Geographer / Geographie Canadien. 28:97-98. 1984
- RESIDENTIAL SEGREGATION AND CLASS FORMATION IN CANADIAN CITIES - A CRITICAL-REVIEW. Canadian Geographer / Geographie Canadien. 28:186-196. 1984
- RESIDENTIAL SEGREGATION AND CLASS FORMATION IN THE CAPITALIST CITY - A REVIEW AND DIRECTIONS FOR RESEARCH. Progress in Human Geography. 8:26-49. 1984
- THE SPATIAL APPROACH TO THE URBAN QUESTION - A COMMENT. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 2:101-105. 1984
- HOUSING TENURE AND SOCIAL-CLASSES IN KINGSTON ONTARIO 1881-1901. Journal of Historical Geography. 7:271-289. 1981
- HISTORICAL APPROACH TO MOBILITY RESEARCH. Professional Geographer. 32:22-29. 1980
- RESIDENTIAL-MOBILITY AND PUBLIC-POLICY. Geographical Analysis. 11:175-183. 1979
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article
- Slums: How Informal Real Estate Markets Work. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 41:372-373. 2017
- Return of the Neighborhood as an Urban Strategy. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 40:889-890. 2016
- Scenes from the Suburbs: The Suburb in Contemporary US Film and Television. Urban Studies. 53:446-448. 2016
- Evicted. Poverty and profit in the American city. Housing Studies. 31:891-892. 2016
- Global Suburbs: Urban Sprawl from the Rio Grande to Rio de Janeiro. Buildings & Landscapes. 22:133-134. 2015
- Housing and Mortgage Markets in Historical Perspective. Housing Studies. 30:808-811. 2015
- Zoned in the USA: The Origins and Implications of American Land Use Regulation. Housing Studies. 30:808-811. 2015
- The political ecology of the metropolis: Metropolitan sources of electoral behaviour in eleven countries. Canadian Geographer / Geographie Canadien. 59:E48-E49. 2015
- Tactical Urbanism: Short-term Action for Long-term Change. Journal of the American Planning Association. 81:154-155. 2015
- NORTH AMERICAN ODYSSEY: HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHIES FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY. Geographical Review. 105:249-251. 2015
- The Making of the Modern British Home: The Suburban Semi and Family Life between the Wars.. Journal of British Studies Albion. 54:241-243. 2015
- CONFRONTING SUBURBAN POVERTY IN AMERICA. Population, Space and Place. 20:483-484. 2014
- The merger delusion: How swallowing its suburbs made an even bigger mess of Montreal. Canadian Geographer / Geographie Canadien. 58:E19-E20. 2014
- Apartment Living in Bombay's Suburbs, 1898-1964.. Urban History Urban History Yearbook. 41:177-178. 2014
- High Life: Condo Living in the Suburban Century. Reviews in American History. 41:717-722. 2013
- Safe as Houses? A Historical Analysis of Housing Prices. Housing Studies. 28:1098-1101. 2013
- Imagining Toronto. Canadian Geographer / Geographie Canadien. 57:E12-E13. 2013
- Perverse cities: Hidden subsidies, wonky policy, and urban sprawl. Canadian Geographer / Geographie Canadien. 57:E12-E13. 2013
- The Routledge Handbook of Urban Ecology. Urban Geography. 33:315-316. 2012
- Neighborhood and Life Chances: How Place Matters in Modern America. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 102:249-251. 2012
- Dark territory in the information age: learning from the West German census controversies of the 1980s. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 29:568-569. 2011
- Cities Surround the Countryside. Urban Aesthetics in Postsocialist China. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 35:1083-1085. 2011
- Suburban Beijing. Housing and Consumption in Contemporary China. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 35:1083-1085. 2011
- Sex and the Revitalized City: Gender, Condominium Development, and Urban Citizenship. Housing Studies. 25:768-770. 2010
- From Yard to Garden: The Domestication of America's Home Grounds. Journal of American History. 96:220-220. 2009
- Spaces of Colonialism. Delhi's Urban Governmentalities. Journal of Historical Geography. 34:539-540. 2008
- The metropolitan revolution: The rise of post-urban America. Urban History Review/Revue d'Histoire Urbaine. 36:64-65. 2008
- Housing and dwelling: Perspectives on modern domestic architecture. Housing Studies. 22:987-988. 2007
- The social structures of the economy. Urban Studies. 44:202-204. 2007
- House thinking. A room-by-room look at how we live. Housing Studies. 21:950-951. 2006
- The prefabricated home.. Technology and Culture. 47:852-853. 2006
- Sprawl: A compact history.. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 96:666-667. 2006
- Dreaming suburbia. Detroit and the production of post-war space and culture. Urban Studies. 42:1664-1665. 2005
- SuburbiaNation. Reading suburban landscape in twentieth-century fiction and film. Social and Cultural Geography. 6:151-152. 2005
- The secret life of cities. The social reproduction of everyday life. Population, Space and Place. 11:67-68. 2005
- Downtown: Its rise and fall, 1880-1950. Journal of Historical Geography. 30:193-195. 2004
- Order and place: In a colonial city. Patterns of struggle and resistance in Georgetown, British Guiana, 1889-1924. Urban History Review/Revue d'Histoire Urbaine. 32:65-67. 2003
- Entrepreneurial vernacular: Developers' subdivisions in the 1920s.. Journal of American History. 89:1570-1571. 2003
- My blue heaven: Life and politics in working-class suburbs of Los angeles, 1920-1965. Urban Studies. 40:637-638. 2003
- Roughing it in the suburbs: Reading Chatelaine Magazine in the Fifties and Sixties. Urban History Review/Revue d'Histoire Urbaine. 31:54-55. 2003
- From cottage to bungalow: Houses and the working class in metropolitan Chicago, 1869-1929. Urban Morphology. 7:52-54. 2003
- Metropolis in the making. Los Angeles in the 1920s. Urban Studies. 39:830-831. 2002
- Red tape and housing costs: How regulation affects new residential development. Urban Studies. 38:2550-2551. 2001
- From tenements to the Taylor homes. In search of an urban housing policy in twentieth-century America. Housing Studies. 16:381-382. 2001
- America's original GI town: Park Forest, Illinois. Environment and Planning A. 32:2080-2081. 2000
- Picture windows: How the suburbs happened. Urban History Review/Revue d'Histoire Urbaine. 29:69-70. 2000
- Amnesia and myopia - History and theory in Los Angeles. Journal of Urban History. 26:669-678. 2000
- Homeplace: The making of the Canadian dwelling over three centuries. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. 59:271-273. 2000
- Crowding and health in low-income settlements. Housing Studies. 14:401-403. 1999
- From self-help housing to sustainable settlement. Capitalist development and urban planning in Lusaka, Zambia. Housing Studies. 14:401-403. 1999
- The city: Los Angeles and urban theory at the end of the twentieth century. Journal of Historical Geography. 24:501-503. 1998
- Is Canadian housing policy more progressive than that of the US?. Housing Studies. 13:727-729. 1998
- The new middle class and the remaking of the central city.. American Journal of Sociology. 104:250-252. 1998
- Looking for Old Ontario, two centuries of landscape exchange. Urban History Review/Revue d'Histoire Urbaine. 26:69-70. 1997
- Post-suburbia. Government and politics in the edge cities. Urban History Review/Revue d'Histoire Urbaine. 26:54-55. 1997
- Modern housing for America. Policy struggles in the New Deal Era - Radford,G. Housing Studies. 12:412-413. 1997
- The Third European Conference on Urban History, Budapest, 29-31 August 1996. Journal of Historical Geography. 23:203-205. 1997
- A home across the water - Bradley,JW. Urban History Review/Revue d'Histoire Urbaine. 25:73-74. 1997
- ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INSTITUTE-OF-BRITISH-GEOGRAPHERS, UNIVERSITY-OF-NORTHUMBRIA, NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, 2-6 JANUARY 1995. Journal of Historical Geography. 21:319-320. 1995
- PROPERTY AND INEQUALITY IN VICTORIAN ONTARIO - STRUCTURAL PATTERNS AND CULTURAL COMMUNITIES IN THE 1871 CENSUS - DARROCH,G, SOLTOW,L. Journal of Historical Geography. 21:349-351. 1995
- PARADISE, CLASS, COMMUTERS, AND ETHNICITY IN RURAL ONTARIO - BARRETT,SR. The Canadian Historical Review. 76:302-304. 1995
- NATURES METROPOLIS. Antipode. 26:163-165. 1994
- CITY OF QUARTZ - EXCAVATING THE FUTURE IN LOS-ANGELES - DAVIS,M. Antipode. 25:255-256. 1993
- HOMES IN THE HEARTLAND - BALLOON FRAME FARMHOUSES OF THE UPPER MIDWEST, 1850-1920 - PETERSON,FW. Journal of American History. 80:270-271. 1993
- THE URBAN FACTOR - SOCIOLOGY OF CANADIAN CITIES - DRIEDGER,L. Canadian Geographer / Geographie Canadien. 37:87-88. 1993
- HOUSING THE NORTH-AMERICAN CITY - POUCET,M, WEAVER,J. Journal of Social History. 26:392-394. 1992
- THE NEW URBAN FRONTIER - URBANIZATION AND CITY-BUILDING IN AUSTRALASIA AND THE AMERICAN WEST - FROST,L. Journal of American History. 79:618-619. 1992
- CONTESTED GROUND - COLLECTIVE ACTION AND THE URBAN NEIGHBORHOOD - DAVIS,JE. Environment and Planning A. 23:1824-1825. 1991
- BORDERLAND - ORIGINS OF THE AMERICAN SUBURB, 1820-1939 - STILGOE,JR. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 80:654-656. 1990
- METROS HOUSING COMPANY - THE 1ST 35 YEARS - MCMAHON,M. Urban History Review/Revue d'Histoire Urbaine. 19:145-146. 1990
- AMERICAN NEIGHBORHOODS AND RESIDENTIAL DIFFERENTIATION - WHITE,M. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 14:364-365. 1990
- HANDBOOK OF HOUSING AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT IN THE UNITED-STATES - HUTTMAN,E, VANVLIET,W. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 14:341-342. 1990
- KINGSTON - BUILDING ON THE PAST - OSBORNE,BS, SWAINSON,D. Canadian Geographer / Geographie Canadien. 33:371-372. 1989
- LOS-ANGELES AND THE AUTOMOBILE - THE MAKING OF THE MODERN CITY - BOTTLES,S. Urban History Review/Revue d'Histoire Urbaine. 18:180-180. 1989
- HOUSING IN POSTWAR CANADA - DEMOGRAPHIC-CHANGE HOUSEHOLD FORMATION AND HOUSING DEMAND - MIRON,JR. Labour/Le Travail. 279-280. 1989
- THE RISE OF THE COMMUNITY BUILDERS - THE AMERICAN REAL-ESTATE INDUSTRY AND URBAN LAND PLANNING - WEISS,MA. Queen's quarterly. 95:956-957. 1988
- URBAN SOCIAL GEOGRAPHY - AN INTRODUCTION, 2ND EDITION - KNOX,P. Progress in Human Geography. 12:612-613. 1988
- CLASS AND SPACE - THE MAKING OF URBAN-SOCIETY - THRIFT,N, WILLIAMS,P. Environment and Planning A. 20:1558-1558. 1988
- A PROPERTY-OWNING DEMOCRACY - HOUSING IN BRITAIN - DAUNTON,MJ. Journal of Historical Geography. 14:310-311. 1988
- THE CHANGING FACE OF CITIES - A STUDY OF DEVELOPMENT CYCLES AND URBAN FORM - WHITEHAND,JWR. Urban History Review/Revue d'Histoire Urbaine. 17:50-51. 1988
- A SOCIAL-HISTORY OF HOUSING 1815-1985 - BURNETT,J. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 77:658-661. 1987
- HOUSING AND NEIGHBORHOOD DYNAMICS - A SIMULATION STUDY - KAIN,JF, APGAR,WC. Growth and Change. 18:81-82. 1987
- CRABGRASS FRONTIER - THE SUBURBANIZATION OF THE UNITED-STATES - JACKSON,KT. Queen's quarterly. 94:247-248. 1987
- THE CITY AND THE GRASS-ROOTS - CASTELL,M. Professional Geographer. 38:432-433. 1986
- SHAKY PALACES - HOMEOWNERSHIP AND SOCIAL-MOBILITY IN BOSTON SUBURBANIZATION - EDEL,M, SCLAR,ED, LURIA,D. Labour/Le Travail. 262-263. 1986
- URBAN-GEOGRAPHY. Canadian Geographer / Geographie Canadien. 30:265-267. 1986
- URBANIZATION OF CAPITAL - STUDIES IN THE HISTORY AND THEORY OF CAPITALIST URBANIZATION - HARVEY,D. Canadian Geographer / Geographie Canadien. 30:284-285. 1986
- SOCIAL-RELATIONS AND SPATIAL STRUCTURES - GREGORY,D, URRY,J. Economic Geography. 62:267-268. 1986
- EXPLORING SOCIAL GEOGRAPHY - JACKSON,P, SMITH,SJ. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 76:290-291. 1986
- THE MYTH OF THE NORTH-AMERICAN CITY - CONTINENTALISM CHALLENGED - GOLDBERG,MA, MERCER,J. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 10:594-595. 1986
- LANDLORD AND TENANT IN URBAN BRITAIN 1838-1918 - ENGLANDER,D. Labour/Le Travail. 239-244. 1985
- GEOGRAPHY AND THE URBAN-ENVIRONMENT - PROGRESS IN RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS, VOL 6 - HERBERT,DT, JOHNSTON,RJ. Canadian Geographer / Geographie Canadien. 29:189-191. 1985
- THE CONTESTED CITY - MOLLENKOPF,JH. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 75:448-449. 1985
- UNFAIRLY STRUCTURED CITIES - BADCOCK,B. Progress in Human Geography. 9:457-458. 1985
- CONFLICT, POLITICS AND THE URBAN SCENE - COX,KR, JOHNSTON,RJ. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 1:367-369. 1983
- PROGRESS IN URBAN-GEOGRAPHY - PACIONE,M. Environment and Planning A. 15:1555-1556. 1983
- THE AMERICAN URBAN SYSTEM - A GEOGRAPHICAL PERSPECTIVE - JOHNSTON,RJ. Urban Ecology. 7:363-365. 1983
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book
- What's in a Name? Talking about Urban Peripheries.. Ed. Harris, Richard S. 2017
- Building a Market The Rise of the Home Improvement Industry, 1914-1960 2012
- Creeping Conformity How Canada Became Suburban, 1900-1960 2004
- Changing Suburbs Foundation, Form and Function 2003
- Unplanned Suburbs Toronto's American Tragedy, 1900 to 1950 1999
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conference paper
- HOUSING POLICY FOR THE COLONIAL CITY: THE BRITISH AND DUTCH EXPERIENCE COMPARED, 1901-1949. Urban Geography. 815-837. 2009
- How the past matters: North American cities in the twentieth century. Journal of Urban Affairs. 159-174. 1998