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academic article
- Book review: The Address Book. What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power. Urban Studies. 57:2994-2996. 2020
- The world’s first slum improvement programme: Calcutta’s bustees, 1876–1910. Planning Perspectives. 35:321-344. 2020
- Hometown advantage: the making of a modern suburb. Urban Geography. 41:247-267. 2020
- A Portrait of North American Urban Historians. Journal of Urban History. 45:1237-1245. 2019
- The Federal Impact on Early Postwar Suburbanization. Housing Policy Debate. 28:854-875. 2018
- Observation of topological phenomena in a programmable lattice of 1,800 qubits. Nature Nature: New biology. 560:456-460. 2018
- Landlords, tenants, and the legal status of secondary suites in Hamilton, Ontario. Canadian Geographer / Geographie Canadien. 61:540-549. 2017
- Secondary suites. Introduction to the Special Section. Canadian Geographer / Geographie Canadien. 61:480-482. 2017
- Secondary suites: A survey of evidence and municipal policy. Canadian Geographer / Geographie Canadien. 61:493-509. 2017
- 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
- Alan Ehrenhalt 2012: The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City. New York: Knopf.. 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 offilteringis 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. 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. 29:895-915. 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. Business History. 47:59-85. 2005
- The Suburban Origins of Redlining: A Canadian Case Study, 1935-54. Urban Studies. 40:2661-2686. 2003
- The Suburban Worker in the History of Labor. International Labor and Working-Class History. 64:8-24. 2003
- From 'black-balling' to 'marking': the suburban origin of redlining in Canada, 1930s-1950s. Canadian Geographer / Geographie Canadien. 47:338-350. 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. 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
- Introduction. Journal of Urban History. 27:259-261. 2001
- The Geography of North American Cities and Suburbs, 1900-1950. 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. 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. 20:3-3. 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
- Special Issue on Housing. Urban History Review/Revue d'Histoire Urbaine. 25:3-4. 1997
- The Impact of Industrial Decentralization on the Gendered Journey to Work, 1900-1940. Economic Geography. 73:94-94. 1997
- The Journey to Work: A Historical Methodology. Historical Methods. 30:97-109. 1997
- Chicago's Other Suburbs. Geographical Review. 84:394-394. 1994
- The Making of a Working-Class Suburb in Hamilton's East End, 1900-1945. Journal of Urban History. 20:486-511. 1994
- Whitehand, J. W. R. and P. J. Larkham, Eds. 1991. Urban Landscapes. International Perspectives.. 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'S 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'S 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. 81:318-318. 1991
- Self-Building in the Urban Housing Market. Economic Geography. 67:1-1. 1991
- Working-Class Home Ownership in the American Metropolis. Journal of Urban History. 17:46-69. 1990
- Making sense of social movements: the Canadian experience. Political Geography Quarterly. 9:197-202. 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
- Household work strategies and suburban homeownership in Toronto, 1899 - 1913. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 8:97-121. 1990
- Self-Building and the Social Geography of Toronto, 1901-1913: A Challenge for Urban Theory. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 15:387-387. 1990
- American Suburbs. Journal of Urban History. 15:98-103. 1988
- The interpretation of Canadian urban reform: a reply to Caulfield. 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. 30:154-158. 1986
- WORKING-CLASS HOME OWNERSHIP AND HOUSING AFFORDABILITY ACROSS CANADA IN 1931. Histoire Sociale. 19:121-138. 1986
- Home ownership and class in modern Canada. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 10:67-86. 1986
- HOUSING IN CANADIAN CITIES - AN AGENDA AND REVIEW OF SOURCES. Urban History Review/Revue d'Histoire Urbaine. 14:259-266. 1986
- RESIDENTIAL SEGREGATION AND CLASS FORMATION IN CANADIAN CITIES: A CRITICAL REVIEW. Canadian Geographer / Geographie Canadien. 28:186-196. 1984
- A Political Chameleon: Class Segregation in Kingston, Ontario, 1961–1976. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 74:454-476. 1984
- The Spatial Approach to the Urban Question: A Comment. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 2:101-105. 1984
- CITY-POLITICS IN CANADA - MAGNUSSON,W, SANCTON,A. Canadian Geographer / Geographie Canadien. 28:97-98. 1984
- Residential Segregation and Class Formation in the Capitalist City: A Review and Directions for Research. Progress in Human Geography. 8:26-49. 1984
- Housing tenure and social classes in Kingston Ontario 1881–1901. Journal of Historical Geography. 7:271-289. 1981
- AN 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
- Eugenie L. Birch, Shahana Chattaraj and Susan M. Wachter (eds.) 2016: Slums: How Informal Real Estate Markets Work . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 41:372-373. 2017
- Evicted. Poverty and profit in the American city. Housing Studies. 31:891-892. 2016
- Michael A. Pagano (ed.) 2015: Return of the Neighborhood as an Urban Strategy . Urbana: University of Illinois Press. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 40:889-890. 2016
- Book review: Scenes from the Suburbs: The Suburb in Contemporary US Film and Television. Urban Studies. 53:446-448. 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 / Zoned in the USA: The Origins and Implications of American Land Use Regulation. 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 edited by Jefferey M.Sellers, DanielKübler, MelanieWalter-Rogg, and R. AlanWalks, ECPR Press, Colchester, 2014, 534 pp., cloth $120.97 (ISBN 978-19073. Canadian Geographer / Geographie Canadien. 59:e48-e49. 2015
- Tactical Urbanism: Short-term Action for Long-term Change, by Mike Lydon and Anthony Garcia. 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
- Peter Scott. The Making of the Modern British Home: The Suburban Semi and Family Life between the Wars. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013 Pp. 270. $99.00 (cloth).. Journal of British Studies Albion. 54:241-243. 2015
- CONFRONTING SUBURBAN POVERTY IN AMERICA by E. Kneebone and A. Berube. Brookings Institution Press, Washington, D.C., 2013. No of pages: xiv + 169. Price: $28.95 (hardback). ISBN 978-0-8157-2390-5. Population, Space and Place. 20:483-484. 2014
- The merger delusion: How swallowing its suburbs made an even bigger mess of Montreal by PeterTrent, McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal, 2012, 700 pp., cloth C$39.95 (ISBN 9780773539327). Canadian Geographer / Geographie Canadien. 58:e19-e20. 2014
- Nikhil Rao, House, But No Garden. Apartment Living in Bombay's Suburbs, 1898–1964. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013. ix + 300pp. 39 figures. Bibliography. $90.00 hbk; $30 pbk.. Urban History Urban History Yearbook. 41:177-178. 2014
- 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 American Dream Rebranded. Reviews in American History. 41:717-722. 2013
- The Routledge Handbook of Urban Ecology.Ian Douglas, David Goode, Michael C. Houck, and Rusong Wang, editors. Urban Geography. 33:315-316. 2012
- A Review of “Neighborhood and Life Chances: How Place Matters in Modern America”. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 102:249-251. 2012
- Review: Dark Territory in the Information Age: Learning from the West German Census Controversies of the 1980s, Seeking Asylum: Human Smuggling and Bureaucracy at the Border. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 29:568-570. 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
- . Journal of Historical Geography. 34:539-540. 2008
- Teaford, Jon C. 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
- Sprawl: A compact history.. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 96:666-667. 2006
- The Prefabricated Home (review). Technology and Culture. 47:852-853. 2006
- Dreaming suburbia. Detroit and the production of post-war space and culture. Urban Studies. 42:1664-1665. 2005
- Book reviews. Social and Cultural Geography. 6:151-155. 2005
- The secret life of cities. The social reproduction of everyday life by H. Jarvis, A. C. Pratt and Peter C.-C. Wu. Prentice Hall, Harlow, 2001. No. of pages: xv + 199. ISBN 0 130 87318 7.. Population, Space and Place. 11:67-68. 2005
- . Journal of Historical Geography. 30:193-195. 2004
- . Journal of American History. 89:1570-1570. 2003
- My blue heaven: Life and politics in working-class suburbs of Los angeles, 1920-1965. Urban Studies. 40:637-638. 2003
- 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. 2003
- From cottage to bungalow: Houses and the working class in metropolitan Chicago, 1869-1929. Urban Morphology. 7:52-54. 2003
- Korinek, Valerie J. Roughing it in the Suburbs. Reading Chatelaine Magazine in the Fifties and Sixties. Urban History Review/Revue d'Histoire Urbaine. 31:54-55. 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
- Baxandall, Rosalyn, and Elizabeth Ewen. Picture Windows: How the Suburbs Happened. Urban History Review/Revue d'Histoire Urbaine. 29:69-70. 2000
- Amnesia and Myopia. Journal of Urban History. 26:669-678. 2000
- Review: Homeplace. The Making of the Canadian Dwelling over Three Centuries by Peter Ennals, Deryck W. Holdsworth. 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
- POLICY REVIEW Is Canadian Housing Policy More Progressive than that of the US?. Housing Studies. 13:727-729. 1998
- Book ReviewsThe New Middle Class and the Remaking of the Central City. By David Ley. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. vii+383. $85.00.. American Journal of Sociology. 104:250-252. 1998
- Teaford, Jon C. Post-Suburbia. Government and Politics in the Edge Cities. Urban History Review/Revue d'Histoire Urbaine. 26:54-55. 1997
- Thomas F. Mcllwraith, Looking for Old Ontario, Two Centuries of Landscape Change. Urban History Review/Revue d'Histoire Urbaine. 26:69-70. 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
- Jean Wardle Bradley, A Home Across the Water. 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
- NATURE'S 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.. Journal of American History. 80:270-270. 1993
- THE URBAN FACTOR - SOCIOLOGY OF CANADIAN CITIES - DRIEDGER,L. Canadian Geographer / Geographie Canadien. 37:87-88. 1993
- Housing the North American City. By Michael Doucet and John Weaver (Montreal, Quebec, Canada: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1991. xvii plus 572 pp.). Journal of Social History. 26:392-394. 1992
- The New Urban Frontier: Urbanisation and City-Building in Australasia and the American West.. Journal of American History. 79:618-618. 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
- 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
- McMahon, Michael. Metro's Housing Company: The First 35 Years. Urban History Review/Revue d'Histoire Urbaine. 19:145-146. 1990
- KINGSTON - BUILDING ON THE PAST - OSBORNE,BS, SWAINSON,D. Canadian Geographer / Geographie Canadien. 33:371-372. 1989
- Bottles, Scott. Los Angeles and the Automobile. The Making of the Modern City. 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
- Book reviews : Knox, P. 1987: Urban social geography. An introduction, second edition. New York: Longman and John Wiley. x + 403 pp. £12.95 paper. Progress in Human Geography. 12:612-613. 1988
- THE RISE OF THE COMMUNITY BUILDERS - THE AMERICAN REAL-ESTATE INDUSTRY AND URBAN LAND PLANNING - WEISS,MA. Queen's quarterly. 95:956-957. 1988
- CLASS AND SPACE - THE MAKING OF URBAN-SOCIETY - THRIFT,N, WILLIAMS,P. Environment and Planning A. 20:1558-1558. 1988
- . Journal of Historical Geography. 14:310-311. 1988
- Whitehand, J.W.R. The Changing Face of Cities: A Study of Development Cycles and Urban Form.. 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. Economic Geography. 62:267-267. 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
- Book reviews: Badcock, B. 1984: Unfairly structured cities. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. xiii + 395 pp. £27.50 cloth, £8.50 paper. Progress in Physical Geography. 9:457-458. 1985
- 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
- The American urban system. A geographical perspective. Urban Ecology. 7:363-365. 1983
- 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
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book
- The Suburban land question: A global survey 2018
- 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 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, 1901-19491. Urban Geography. 815-837. 2009
- How the Past Matters: North American Cities in the Twentieth Century. Journal of Urban Affairs. 159-174. 1998