Industrial Efficiency, Social Order and Moral Purity: Housing Reform Thought in English Canada, 1900–1950
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Industrial Efficiency, Social Order and Moral Purity: Housing Reform Thought in English Canada, 1900–1950
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Abstract |
The author traces the evolution of reform ideology in the housing sphere in the first half of the twentieth century by critically analyzing the ideas and practices of a number of key housing reformers and agencies. Among the reformers examined by the author is Montrealer Herbert Ames (1863-1954), author of the 1897 statistical examination of social conditions in Montreal's working-class inhabitants of Point St. Charles and Griffintown titled "The City Below the Hill." References by the author are also made to the federal Commission of Conservation, 1909-21, which extended its activities into the academy, inaugurating lecture courses at the University of Toronto and McGill University in 1919-20, and the work of Leonard Marsh (1906-1983) a McGill University economist and the Director of McGill’s social science research program between 1930 and 1941.
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Urban History Review / Revue d'histoire urbaine
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Vol. 25
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no. 2
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30-40
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March 1997
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en
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Purdy, Sean. “Industrial Efficiency, Social Order and Moral Purity: Housing Reform Thought in English Canada, 1900–1950.” Urban History Review / Revue d’histoire urbaine Vol. 25, no. 2 (March 1997): 30–40. https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/uhr/1997-v25-n2-uhr0615/1016069ar.pdf.
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