Reading a Community: Urban History at the Local Level

Course OutlineOnline ResourcesWeb Workshop
Part One: The General Concepts and the Sources
Introduction to Part One
Module 1 Introduction to the Study of Urban History
Module 2 Introduction to Urban History in Canada
Module 3 Studying a City-Centered Region: The Upper Grand River Valley
Module 4 Studying the Local Community: Guelph as a Case Study


Part Two: The Major Themes and Student Presentations
Introduction to Part Two
Module 5 Towns and the Settlement Process
Module 6 Town and Country Connections
Module 7 The Culture of a Victorian City
Module 8 Victorian Culture and Urban Form
Module 9 The Victorian House and Garden
Module 10 Cities in an Era of Reform, 1900-1920
Module 11 Building the Twentieth Century City
Module 12 Cultural Perceptions of Urbanism

Bibliographies
The Urban Past: An International Urban History by G.A. Stelter
Articles
Article 1 "Studying the Region"
Article 2 "Guelph and the Early Canadian Town Planning Tradition"
Article 3 "Henry Langley and the Making of Gothic Guelph"
Article 4 "Researching a House or Other Building in Guelph"
Article 5 "The Carpenter/Architect and the Ontario Townscape: John Hall, Jr., of Guelph"
Article 6 "The Architect and the Community: W. Frye Colwill and Turn of the Century Guelph"
Walking Tour "Guelph's Heritage: a Walking Tour of the Downtown Core"
Databases
Guelph Electronic Building Database
Collections
The Gordon Couling Collection
The Edward Johnson Collection
The Robert Stewart Lumber Company Records

History Course Outlines
49-347/397 Independent Reading Course - "John Galt: The Scot as Writer and Colonizer"
Atelier
Atelier Introduction

Web Workshop
Outline
Module 1 Introduction to the Internet
Module 2 Uploading and Downloading Files
Module 3 Introduction to HTML
Module 4 Introduction to Online Searching


HTML Tutorials and Guides
Introduction
Introduction to HTML and URLs, by Ian Graham
Tutorials
Writing HTML, Maricopa County Community College
Crash course, PC Week Labs
Resources and Style Guides
HTML Working and Background Materials
Yale Web Style Manager


E-mail
49-464 Course Listserv


Course Announcements
Virtual Corkboard

Gilbert Stelter
Richard Gorrie
James Calnan

Acknowledgments


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