Daniel Ross

Historian of the city, politics, and society

Category Archives: urban history

Talking the Heart of Toronto

Since The Heart of Toronto was released two months ago, I’ve had the chance to talk about my research with some of Canada’s longest-running and hardest-working history podcasts.

June 10, 2022 · Leave a comment

Histories of Urban Knowledge

A new special issue of the Urban History Review is out, based on work presented at our 2019 Savoirs urbains conference.

March 7, 2022 · Leave a comment

Coming soon: The Heart of Toronto

I’m excited to see my research on Yonge Street and the remaking of downtown Toronto getting closer and closer to publication.

November 8, 2021 · Leave a comment

Saving Chinatown, 1971 to 2021

For more than fifty years, saving Chinatown has been on the urban agenda, and that struggle, led by community members and their allies, has been tightly bound up in larger transformations in our cities and society.

July 26, 2021 · Leave a comment

Retail, Capital, and the Making of Downtown

I am grateful to announce that my research on capital, retail, and the making of Canadian downtowns has been financed by the FRQSC.

April 30, 2021 · Leave a comment

Will bars and restaurants survive COVID-19?

I was interviewed by Christine Sismondo for a Toronto Star piece published today which asks: how will bars and restaurants survive COVID-19?

May 13, 2020 · Leave a comment

Histories of urban knowledge

This year I’ve been part of a team of Montreal-based historians organizing the Écrire l’histoire des savoirs urbains/Histories of urban knowledge conference.

September 16, 2019 · Leave a comment

Yonge Street transforms

One of the challenges of writing the history of urban transformations is that they don’t have definite endings and beginnings.

May 11, 2019 · Leave a comment

Planning the postwar Canadian city

This week, I was pleased to see my review of Richard White’s Planning Toronto in print in the Canadian Historical Review.

December 7, 2018 · Leave a comment

Digital classroom: Vanished urban landscapes

This winter, students in my class on the North American city created a group blog on Montreal’s vanished urban landscapes.

April 18, 2018 · Leave a comment

Digital classroom: Making a map of Montréal migration history

This fall, students in my class on the history of immigration created a collaborative map of Montréal’s migration history.

February 8, 2018 · 1 Comment

The history of Toronto road rage

I was interviewed this week by the Toronto Star for a feature piece on the history of competition for street space in the city.

January 26, 2018 · Leave a comment

Sidewalks, streets, and urban modernity

What do sidewalks and street pavements tell us about the historical city? Quite a bit, it turns out. I recently reviewed Phillip Gordon Mackintosh’s Newspaper City (UTP, 2017) for Historical Geography.

January 3, 2018 · Leave a comment

The Jaques murder, continued

The 1977 murder of shoeshine boy Emanuel Jaques continues to draw attention forty years later. I discussed the event and its impact on the city with the Globe & Mail.

July 21, 2017 · Leave a comment

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