selected scholarly activity
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books
- The rise of the neighbourhood in Canada, 1880s-2020s 2025
- Preface 2018
- Preface 2018
- The Suburban land question: A global survey 2018
- The Suburban land question: Introduction 2018
- What's in a Name? Talking about Urban Peripheries. 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
- Preface 2003
- Unplanned Suburbs Toronto's American Tragedy, 1900 to 1950 1999
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chapters
- Creating suburbs in North America: A mutual blind spot. 329-349. 2023
- Slums. 244-265. 2023
- A dose of density: The urban counter-revolution. 109-123. 2022
- Industrial City. 223-229. 2020
- Using Toronto to explore three suburban stereotypes, and vice versa. 23-44. 2020
- The Routledge Companion to the Suburbs. 29-38. 2019
- An effective Public Partnership for suburban land development: Fleurhof, Johannesburg. 258-279. 2018
- Conclusion: What are the Suburban land questions?. 302-310. 2018
- Concluding suggestions. 334-345. 2017
- Doubts about "suburbs" in Canada. 89-111. 2017
- The turning point in urban policy for british colonial Africa, 1939-1945. 127-152. 2016
- Suburbanization and Suburbanism. 660-666. 2015
- "International policy for urban housing markets in the global south since 1945": Essay written for cities of the global south reader (2015). 122-133. 2014
- The Routledge Handbook on Cities of the Global South. 109-121. 2014
- Self-Help. 304-309. 2012
- Self-Help and Informal Sector Housing in the United States and Canada. 286-291. 2012
- Self-Help and Informal Sector Housing in the United States and Canada. 286-291. 2011
- Self-Help: Policy Assistance. 304-309. 2011
- Industrial City. 383-388. 2009
- Industrial City. V5-V5-388. 2009
- Slums. 157-162. 2009
- Slums. V10-V10-162. 2009
- Suburbanization and the employment linkage. 221-236. 2004
- Suburban foundation, form and function. 1-31. 2003
- The making of American Suburbs, 1900-1950s: A reconstruction. 91-110. 2003
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conferences
- Housing Policy for the Colonial City: The British and Dutch Experience Compared, 1901-19491. Urban Geography. 815-837. 2009
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journal articles
- Broken city: Land speculation, inequality, and urban crisis ByPatrick M.Condon,Vancouver:University of British Columbia Press.2024.274 pages. $32.95 (paperback). ISBN: 9780774869553. Canadian Geographer. 68:e65-e66. 2024
- How “Neighborhood” Arose, Changed, and Grew: A Bilingual Canadian Story. Journal of Urban History. 50:009614422311702-009614422311702. 2024
- Completing the Picture of the Depression Housing Crisis. Enterprise & Society. 25:1-24. 2024
- The political economy of land: Rent, financialization and resistance , by Mika Hyötyläinen and Robert Beauregard (eds.) The political economy of land: Rent, financialization and resistance , by Mika Hyötyläinen and Robert Beauregard (eds.), London, Routledge, 2023. Journal of Urban Affairs. 46:1257-1259. 2024
- The Depression Housing Crisis: Which Owners and Investors Hurt Most?. Histoire Sociale. 57:49-69. 2024
- A History of Council Housing in 100 Estates. Housing Studies. 39:1105-1107. 2024
- Book review: The Changing American Neighborhood: The Meaning of Place in the Twenty-First Century. Urban Studies. 61:980-982. 2024
- Gentrification is inevitable and other lies , by Leslie Kern Gentrification is inevitable and other lies , by Leslie Kern, London, Verso, 2022. Journal of Urban Affairs. 46:653-655. 2024
- Response: An invitation to conversation across disciplines. Journal of Urban Affairs. 46:475-476. 2024
- The state of urban research: Views across the disciplines. Journal of Urban Affairs. 46:425-462. 2024
- Property wrongs: The seventy‐year fight for public housing in Winnipeg By DougSmith, Fernwood: Halifax and Winnipeg. 2023. 256 pages. $28 (paperback). ISBN: 9781773635972. Canadian Geographer. 68:e7-e8. 2024
- A Local Housing Market in the Great Depression. Social Science History. 48:93-119. 2024
- Collateral damage. Personal lenders and the creation of national mortgage markets in North America, 1890s-1960s. Housing Studies. ahead-of-print. 2024
- How neighborhoods came to matter more over time: A broad historical sketch. Journal of Urban Affairs. ahead-of-print:1-19. 2024
- The tenant class By RicardoTranjan, Toronto: Between the Lines. 2023. 144 pages. $22.95 (paperback). ISBN: 9781771136228. Canadian Geographer. 67:e45-e46. 2023
- Carl Abbott, Suburbs. A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. 140pp. 10 b/w images. Ppk £8.99.. Urban History. 50:845-847. 2023
- The Canadian Home: The Fate of Owners and Investors in the Great Depression. Canadian Historical Review, The. 104:251-273. 2023
- Canadian Suburban. Reimagining Space and Place in Postwar English Canadian Fiction by CherylCowdy, McGill‐Queens University Press, Montreal and Kingston, 2022, 200 pp. hardback $65.00 (ISBN 978‐0228010647). Canadian Geographer. 66. 2022
- Book review: Deindustrializing Montreal. Urban Studies. 59:3233-3235. 2022
- The Heart of Toronto: Corporate Power, Civic Activism, and the Remaking of Downtown Yonge Street. American Review of Canadian Studies, The. 52:503-505. 2022
- Concluding Comments. Urban History Review/Revue d'Histoire Urbaine. 50:82-85. 2022
- The State of Urban History in Canada. Urban History Review/Revue d'Histoire Urbaine. 50:5-15. 2022
- Sick City. Disease, Race, Inequality and Urban Land by Patrick M. Condon, James Taylor Chair at the University of British Columbia School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Vancouver, 2021 166 pp., paperback $25 (ISBN 978‐1777456009). Canadian Geographer. 66:E22-E23. 2022
- The three tenures: A case of property maintenance. Urban Studies. 59:1926-1943. 2022
- Book review: Built Up: An Historical Perspective on the Contemporary Principles and Practices of Real Estate Development. Urban Studies. 58:3055-3057. 2021
- Book review: The Address Book. What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power. Urban Studies. 57:2994-2996. 2020
- Neighbourhood upgrading: A fragmented global history. Progress in Planning. 142:100432-100432. 2020
- The changing place of condominiums across a metropolitan area, 1970–2015. Canadian Geographer. 64:294-309. 2020
- The Kinks. Songs of the Semi-Detached. Home Cultures. 17:144-148. 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
- How newspapers portray suburbs: A paradox. Journal of Urban Affairs. 40:974-991. 2018
- Modes of Informal Urban Development. Journal of Planning Literature. 33:267-286. 2018
- Observation of topological phenomena in a programmable lattice of 1,800 qubits. Nature. 560:456-460. 2018
- Landlords, tenants, and the legal status of secondary suites in Hamilton, Ontario. Canadian Geographer. 61:540-549. 2017
- Secondary suites. Introduction to the Special Section. Canadian Geographer. 61:480-482. 2017
- Secondary suites: A survey of evidence and municipal policy. Canadian Geographer. 61:493-509. 2017
- Suburban jungle [2]. Economist. 411. 2015
- Using Toronto to Explore Three Suburban Stereotypes, and Vice Versa. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space. 47:30-49. 2015
- Segregation and the Social Relations of Place, Bombay, 1890–1910. South Asia. 36:589-607. 2013
- The Rise of Filtering Down: The American Housing Market Transformed, 1915-1929. Social Science History. 37:515-549. 2013
- AlanEhrenhalt2012: 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. 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
- Preface. Hematology/Oncology Clinics of North America. 24:xiii-xiv. 2010
- Meaningful types in a world of suburbs. Research in Urban Sociology. 10:15-47. 2010
- The Birth of the North American Home Improvement Store, 1905–1929. Enterprise & Society. 10:687-728. 2009
- The Birth of the North American Home Improvement Store, 1905–1929. Enterprise & Society. 10:687-728. 2009
- A New Form of Credit: The State Promotes Home Improvement, 1934–1954. Journal of Policy History. 21:392-423. 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 Geographpy. 34:311-337. 2008
- Development and Hybridity Made Concrete in the Colonies. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space. 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 (JSAH). 66:476-493. 2007
- ‘Shauri ya Sera Kali’: the colonial regime of urban housing in Kenya to 1939. Urban History. 34:504-530. 2007
- New plans for housing in urban Kenya, 1939–63. Planning Perspectives. 22:195-223. 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, The. 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. 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
- ‘Build Your Own Home’: state-assisted self-help housing in Canada, 1942–75. Planning Perspectives. 17:345-372. 2002
- 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: Economy and Space. 34:367-368. 2002
- No Terror Souses. Journal of Urban History. 28:247-257. 2002
- Richard Harris and Tricia Shulist: Canada's Reluctant Housing Program: The Veterans' Land Act, 1942-75. Canadian Historical Review, The. 82:253-282. 2001
- Social and Geographic Inequities in the Residential Property Tax: A Review and Case Study. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space. 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. 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
- Aided Self-help Housing, a Case of Amnesia: Editor's Introduction. Housing Studies. 14:277-280. 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 American Association of Geographers. 88:622-639. 1998
- Invincible green suburbs, brave new towns: social change and urban dispersal in postwar England. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space. 30:2092-2093. 1998
- A crank's fate and the feting of a visionary: reflections on the history of aided self-help housing. 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
- Introduction. Journal of Cross - Cultural Psychology. 25:3-7. 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. 37:143-147. 1993
- Industry and residence: The decentralization of New York City, 1900-1940. Journal of Historical Geographpy. 19:169-190. 1993
- HAMILTON'S EAST END: THE EARLY WORKING‐CLASS SUBURB. Canadian Geographer. 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. 36:13-30. 1992
- Residential property in Montreal and Toronto 1921-1951, two cities, two different worlds. Inrs Urbanisation Etudes Et Documents. 65. 1992
- The impact of building controls on residential development in Toronto, 1900–40. Planning Perspectives. 6:269-296. 1991
- 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
- Household Work Strategies and Suburban Homeownership in Toronto, 1899–1913. Environment & 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 American Association of Geographers. 80:73-95. 1990
- The Growth of Toronto, 1861-1941. Urban History Review/Revue d'Histoire Urbaine. 18:244-255. 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
- Changes in homeownership in Montreal and Toronto since the middle of the XIXth century. Inrs Urbanisation Etudes Et Documents. 61. 1989
- 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
- The evolution of housing tenure in Montreal and Toronto since the mid-nineteenth century. Research Paper University of Toronto Centre for Urban Community Studies. 166. 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. 31:262-267. 1987
- The Myth of the Promised Land: The Social Diffusion of Home Ownership in Britain and North America. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 77:173-190. 1987
- The growth of home ownership in Toronto, 1899-1913.. Growth of Home Ownership in Toronto 1899 1913. 1987
- BOOM AND BUST: THE EFFECTS OF HOUSE PRICE INFLATION ON HOMEOWNERSHIP PATTERNS IN MONTREAL, TORONTO, AND VANCOUVER. Canadian Geographer. 30:302-315. 1986
- Class differences in urban home ownership: An analysis of recent Canadian trends. Housing Studies. 1:133-146. 1986
- HOW RELIABLE IS THE MODERN CITY DIRECTORY?. Canadian Geographer. 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
- Housing in Canadian Cities: An Agenda and Review of Sources. Urban History Review/Revue d'Histoire Urbaine. 14:258-266. 1986
- RESIDENTIAL SEGREGATION AND CLASS FORMATION IN CANADIAN CITIES: A CRITICAL REVIEW. Canadian Geographer. 28:186-196. 1984
- A Political Chameleon: Class Segregation in Kingston, Ontario, 1961–1976. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 74:454-476. 1984
- The Spatial Approach to the Urban Question: A Comment. Environment & Planning. D, Society and Space. 2:101-105. 1984
- CITY-POLITICS IN CANADA - MAGNUSSON,W, SANCTON,A. Canadian Geographer. 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
- Space and class: a critique of Urry. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 7:115-121. 1983
- Housing tenure and social classes in Kingston Ontario 1881–1901. Journal of Historical Geographpy. 7:271-289. 1981
- Residential segregation - some theoretical propositions.. Transition Quarterly Journal of the Socially and Ecologically Responsible Geographers. 10:12-19. 1981
- AN HISTORICAL APPROACH TO MOBILITY RESEARCH∗. Professional Geographer. 32:22-29. 1980
- Residential Mobility and Public Policy. Geographical Analysis. 11:175-183. 1979
- Flattered but not imitated: Co-operative self-help and the Nova Scotia Housing Commission, 1936-1973. Acadiensis. 31:103-128.
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other
- 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. 372-373. 2017
- Evicted. Poverty and profit in the American city. Housing Studies. 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. 889-890. 2016
- Book review: Scenes from the Suburbs: The Suburb in Contemporary US Film and Television. Urban Studies. 446-448. 2016
- Global Suburbs: Urban Sprawl from the Rio Grande to Rio de Janeiro. Buildings & Landscapes. 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. 808-811. 2015
- Zoned in the USA: The Origins and Implications of American Land Use Regulation. Housing Studies. 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 978‐1907301377). Canadian Geographer. E48-E49. 2015
- Tactical Urbanism: Short-term Action for Long-term Change, by Mike Lydon and Anthony Garcia. American Planning Association. Journal of the American Planning Association. 154-155. 2015
- North American Odyssey: Historical Geographies for the Twenty‐First Century. Geographical Review. 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. 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. 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. 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. 177-178. 2014
- The American Dream Rebranded. Reviews in American history. 717-722. 2013
- Safe as Houses? A Historical Analysis of Housing Prices. Housing Studies. 1098-1101. 2013
- Imagining Toronto. Canadian Geographer. E12-E13. 2013
- Perverse cities: Hidden subsidies, wonky policy, and urban sprawl. Canadian Geographer. E12-E13. 2013
- The Routledge Handbook of Urban Ecology.Ian Douglas, David Goode, Michael C. Houck, and Rusong Wang, editors. Urban Geography. 315-316. 2012
- A Review of “Neighborhood and Life Chances: How Place Matters in Modern America”. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 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 & Planning. D, Society and Space. 568-570. 2011
- Cities Surround the Countryside. Urban Aesthetics in Postsocialist China. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 1083-1085. 2011
- Suburban Beijing. Housing and Consumption in Contemporary China. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 1083-1085. 2011
- Sex and the Revitalized City: Gender, Condominium Development, and Urban Citizenship. Housing Studies. 768-770. 2010
- From Yard to Garden: The Domestication of America's Home Grounds. Journal of American History. 220-220. 2009
- . Journal of Historical Geographpy. 539-540. 2008
- Teaford, Jon C. The Metropolitan Revolution: The Rise of Post-Urban America. Urban History Review/Revue d'Histoire Urbaine. 64-65. 2008
- Housing and dwelling: Perspectives on modern domestic architecture. Housing Studies. 987-988. 2007
- The social structures of the economy. Urban Studies. 202-204. 2007
- House thinking. A room-by-room look at how we live. Housing Studies. 950-951. 2006
- The Prefabricated Home (review). Technology and Culture. 852-853. 2006
- Sprawl: A compact history.. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 666-667. 2006
- Dreaming suburbia. Detroit and the production of post-war space and culture. Urban Studies. 1664-1665. 2005
- Book reviews. Social & Cultural Geography. 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. 67-68. 2005
- . Journal of Historical Geographpy. 193-195. 2004
- . Journal of American History. 1570-1570. 2003
- My blue heaven: Life and politics in working-class suburbs of Los angeles, 1920-1965. Urban Studies. 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. 2003
- From cottage to bungalow: Houses and the working class in metropolitan Chicago, 1869-1929. Urban Morphology. 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. 54-55. 2003
- Metropolis in the making. Los Angeles in the 1920s. Urban Studies. 830-831. 2002
- Red tape and housing costs: How regulation affects new residential development. Urban Studies. 2550-2551. 2001
- From tenements to the Taylor homes. In search of an urban housing policy in twentieth-century America. Housing Studies. 381-382. 2001
- America's original GI town: Park Forest, Illinois. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space. 2080-2081. 2000
- Baxandall, Rosalyn, and Elizabeth Ewen. Picture Windows: How the Suburbs Happened. Urban History Review/Revue d'Histoire Urbaine. 69-70. 2000
- Amnesia and Myopia. Journal of Urban History. 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 (JSAH). 271-273. 2000
- Crowding and health in low-income settlements. Housing Studies. 401-403. 1999
- From self-help housing to sustainable settlement. Capitalist development and urban planning in Lusaka, Zambia. Housing Studies. 401-403. 1999
- The city: Los Angeles and urban theory at the end of the twentieth century. Journal of Historical Geographpy. 501-503. 1998
- POLICY REVIEW Is Canadian Housing Policy More Progressive than that of the US?. Housing Studies. 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. 250-252. 1998
- Teaford, Jon C. Post-Suburbia. Government and Politics in the Edge Cities. Urban History Review/Revue d'Histoire Urbaine. 54-55. 1997
- Thomas F. Mcllwraith, Looking for Old Ontario, Two Centuries of Landscape Change. Urban History Review/Revue d'Histoire Urbaine. 69-70. 1997
- Modern housing for America. Policy struggles in the New Deal Era - Radford,G. Housing Studies. 412-413. 1997
- The Third European Conference on Urban History, Budapest, 29-31 August 1996. Journal of Historical Geographpy. 203-205. 1997
- Jean Wardle Bradley, A Home Across the Water. Urban History Review/Revue d'Histoire Urbaine. 73-74. 1997
- ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INSTITUTE-OF-BRITISH-GEOGRAPHERS, UNIVERSITY-OF-NORTHUMBRIA, NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, 2-6 JANUARY 1995. Journal of Historical Geographpy. 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 Geographpy. 349-351. 1995
- PARADISE, CLASS, COMMUTERS, AND ETHNICITY IN RURAL ONTARIO - BARRETT,SR. Canadian Historical Review, The. 302-304. 1995
- NATURE'S METROPOLIS. Antipode. 163-165. 1994
- CITY OF QUARTZ - EXCAVATING THE FUTURE IN LOS-ANGELES - DAVIS,M. Antipode. 255-256. 1993
- Homes in the Heartland: Balloon Frame Farmhouses of the Upper Midwest, 1850-1920.. Journal of American History. 270-270. 1993
- THE URBAN FACTOR - SOCIOLOGY OF CANADIAN CITIES - DRIEDGER,L. Canadian Geographer. 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. 392-394. 1992
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