Richard Harris: Publications

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Books
Contributions to Books
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Peer Reviewed Books

Creeping Conformity How Canada became Suburban, 1900-1960 (University of Toronto Press, 2004).

Changing Suburbs. Foundation, Form and Function, edited, with Peter Larkham (London: E and FN Spon, 1999).

Unplanned Suburbs. Toronto's American Tragedy, 1900-1950. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996).

Democracy in Kingston. A social movement in urban politics, 1965-1970 Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press (January, 1988).

Editor (with G. Pratt) of a special issue on Housing Tenure and Social Class, Research Report Series. SB: 10, National Swedish Institute for Building Research, Gavle, Sweden. October, 1987.

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Peer Reviewed Contributions to Books

Harris, R., “Slums” and “Industrial City” in R. Kitchen and N. Thrift, eds., International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2009).

Harris, R., “Toronto”, in Peter Stearns, ed., Encyclopedia of the Modern World. Vol VII (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), pp.273-275

Harris, R., 2008.  The Evolution of Urban Housing Policy in the British West Indies, 1929-1960s. In Rivke Jaffe, ed. The Caribbean City (Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle)

Harris, R.,“Building Regulations”, “Building Industry”, “Land Developers and Development”, “Redlining”, “Single Family Detached House”, and “Social Geography of Cities and Suburbs”. In D. Goldfield (ed.) Encyclopedia of American Urban History (Thousand Oaks, Ca.: Sage, 2007).

Harris, R., “Housing. Dreams, Responsibilities, and Consequences,” In Trudi Bunting and Pierre Filion, eds. Canadian Cities in Transition (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2006). 3rd. edtn.

Harris, R., Self-built housing and shanties; Melrose Park; Stone Park; Home building and Sanborn Insurance Atlases, in J. Grossman, A.D. Keating and J.L. Reiff, eds., The Encyclopedia of Chicago (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2004).

Harris, R., “Suburbanization and the Employment Linkage” in Robert Lewis, ed. Manufacturing Suburbs. Building Work and Home on the Metropolitan Fringe (Philadelphia: Temple University Press 2004).

Harris, R., “Suburbs” and “Housing” in Gerald Hallowell, ed. The Oxford Companion to Canadian History. (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2004).

Harris, R., Canadian Cities in a North American Context in T. McIlwraith and T. Muller, eds., North America. The Historical Geography of a Changing Continent. 2nd edition. Boulder, Co.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001, pp. 445-462.

Harris, R., The Making of Landscape in Unplanned Suburbs. in Heather Nicol and Greg Halseth, eds. (Re)Developing the Urban Edge. (Waterloo, Ontario: University of Waterloo Press, 2000), pp. 229-266.

Harris, R., Housing in Trudi Bunting and Pierre Filion, eds. Canadian Cities in Transition: The 21st Century. (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2000) pp.380-403.

Harris, R., The Making of American Suburbs, 1900-1950s in R. Harris and P. Larkham, eds. Changing Suburbs (London: E and FN Spon, 1999), pp.91-110.

Harris, R., "Working Class in Suburbs"; "Residential Construction"; "Canadian and American Cities Compared"; "Land Developers and Development"; "Building Regulations"; "Residential
Differentiation"; "Urban" in N.L. Shumsky, ed. Encyclopedia of Urban America: the cities and suburbs (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC Clio, 1999).

Harris, R., "Homeownership"; "Residential Development"; "Lodging Accommodation"; "Owner-building"; "Subdivision" in Willem van Vliet, ed. Encyclopedia of Housing (Thousand Oaks: Sage) 1998.

Harris, R., "Reading Sanborns for the Spoor of the Owner-Builder, 1890s-1950s" in A. Adams and S. McMurry, eds. Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture. Vol. VII (Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee Press, 1997), pp. 251-267.

Harris, R., "The meaning of home, home ownership and public policy". (with G. Pratt) In L. Bourne and D. Ley (eds.) The Social Geography of Canadian Cities (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1993), pp. 281-297.

Harris, R., "Social Mix, Housing Tenure and Community Development", in John Miron (ed.) House, Home and Community. Progress in Housing Canadians, 1945-1986. (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1993), pp. 308-319.

Harris, R., The Unplanned Blue-Collar Suburb in its Heyday, 1900-1940. In Don Janelle, ed., Geographical Snapshots of North America (New York: The Guilford Press, 1992).

Harris, R., Synthesis in Human Geography: A Demonstration of Historical Materialism. In S. MacKenzie and A. Kobayashi, (eds) The Making of Human Geography (London: Hutchinson, 1989).

Harris, R., Housing. In T. Bunting and P. Filion (eds.) Canadian Cities in Transition (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1991).

Harris, R., The Geography of Employment and Residence in New York since 1950. Dual City Restructuring New York City edited by John Mollenkopf and Manuel Castells (New York: Russell Sage, 1991).

Introduction (with G. Pratt), in R. Harris and G. Pratt, Housing Tenure and Social Class, Research Report Series. SB: 10, National Swedish Institute for Building Research, Gavle, Sweden. October, 1987.

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Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

Harris, R., (2009). “A New Form of Credit. The State Promotes Home Improvement, 1934-1954.” Journal of Policy History. (in press).

Harris, R.  (2009). “The Birth of the Housing Consumer in the United States, 1918-1960.” International Journal of Consumer Studies (in press).

Harris, R. (2009). “The Birth of the North American Home Improvement Store, 1905-1929” Enterprise and Society  (in press).

Harris, R.  (2008).  “Tulips in Winter. A Sales Job for the Tract House.” Buildings and Landscapes. 15: 1-10.

Harris, R. (2008).  “Development and Hybridity Made Concrete in the Colonies.” Environment and Planning. A. 40,1: 15-36.

Harris, R.  (2008).  “Style for the Zeitgeist. The stealthy revival of historicist housing since the late 1960s.” (with Nadine Dostrovsky). The Professional Geographer 60,3 (2008): 314-332.

Harris, R.  (2008).  “Hybrid Housing. Improvement and Control in Colonial Zanzibar” (with Garth Myers). Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 66,4 (2007): 476-493.

Harris, R. (2008)  “From Trusteeship to Development.  How class and gender complicated Kenya’s housing policy, 1939-1963.” Journal of Historical Geography. 34 (2008): 311-337.

Harris, R. (2008).  “The Suburban Culture of Building and the Reassuring Revival of Historicist Housing since the Late 1960s.” (with Nadine Dostrovsky) Home Cultures. 5,2 (2008): 167-196.

Harris, R.  (2007)  “‘Shauri Ya Sera Kali’: The Colonial Regime of Urban Housing in Kenya to 1939.” (with Alison Hay). Urban History 34,3 (2007): 504-530.

Harris, R., (2007), “From Miser to Spendthrift. Public Housing and the Vulnerability of Colonialism in Barbados, 1935-1965.” Journal of Urban History 33,3: 443-466.

Harris, R.  (2007).  “New Plans for Housing in Urban Kenya, 1939-1963.” (with Alison Hay) Planning Perspectives, 22: 195-223.

Harris, R., (2007). “The Rise of Housing in International Development. The Effects of Economic Discourse” (with Godwin Arku). Habitat International 31, 1: 1-11.

Harris, R., (2006), “Cities as the Industrial Districts of Housebuilding” (with M. Buzzelli). International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 30, 4 : 894-917..

Harris, R., (2060, “Housing and Economic Development: The Evolution of an Idea Since 1945” (with Godwin Arku). Habitat International 30, 4 : 1007-1017.

Harris, R., (2005), How Healthy Were the Suburbs? (with Michael Mercier) Journal of Urban History 31, 6: 767-798.

Harris, R., (2005), Housing as a Tool of Economic Development Since 1929 (with Godwin Arku). International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 29, 4: 895-915.

Harris, R., (2005) Making Leeway in the Leewards, 1929-1951. The Negotiation of Colonial Development. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 33, 3: 393-418.

Harris, R., (2005) House Building in the Machine Age, 1920s-1970s. Realities and Perceptions of Modernisation in North America and Australia (with Michael Buzzelli). Business History 47, 1: 59-85.

Harris, R., (2003) The Suburban Worker in the History of Labor. International Labor and Working Class History 64 : 8-24.

Harris, R., (2003)The Suburban Origins of Redlining. A Canadian Case Study, 1935-1954 (with Doris Forrester) Urban Studies 40, 13: 2661-2686.

Harris, R., (2003) A Double Irony. The Originality and Influence of John F.C. Turner. Habitat International 27, 2 (2003): 245-269.

Harris, R., (2003) A Mixed Message. The Agents and Forms of International Housing Policy, 1945-1973 (with Ceinwen Giles). Habitat International 27, 2: 167-191.

Harris, R., (2003) From ‘Black-balling’ to ‘Marking.’ The Suburban Origins of Redlining in Canada, 1930s-1950s. The Canadian Geographer 47, 3: 338-350.

Harris, R., (2003) Small is Transient. Housebuilding firms in Ontario, Canada 1978-1998 (with M. Buzzelli) Housing Studies 18, 3: 369-386.

Harris, R., (2002) Response. The boundary effect and vertical inequity in the residential property tax (with M. Lehman) Environment and Planning A 34, 2: 361-365.

Harris, R., (2002) Build Your Own Home. State-assisted self-help housing in Canada, 1942-75. Planning Perspectives 17: 345-372.

Harris, R., (2002) Response. The boundary effect and vertical inequity in the residential property tax (with M. Lehman) Environment and Planning A 34, 2 : 361-365.

Harris, R., (2001) Flattered but not Imitated. The Nova Scotia Housing Commission, 1936-1973. Acadiensis XXXI, 1 (2001) :103-128.

Harris, R., (2001) The urban geography of low-income housing: Cairo (1947-1996) exemplifies a model (with Malak Wahba). International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 26, 1: 58-79.

Harris, R., (2001) Canada’s Reluctant Housing Program: The Veteran’s Land Act, 1942-1975 (with Tricia Shulist). The Canadian Historical Review 82, 2: 253-282.

Harris, R., (2001) Social and geographic inequities in the residential property tax: a review and case study. Paper Environment and Planning A 33: 881-900.

Harris, R., (2001) The Geography of North American Cities and Suburbs, 1900-1950: A New Synthesis (with Robert Lewis), Journal of Urban History 27, 3: 262-293.

Harris, R., (2000) A Test for Geographers. The Geography of Educational Achievement in Toronto and Hamilton, 1997 (with Michael Mercier), The Canadian Geographer 44, 4: 210-227.

Harris, R., (2000) More American than the United States.: Housing in Urban Canada in the Twentieth Century. Journal of Urban History 26,4: 456-478.

Harris, R., (2000) To Market! To Market! The Changing Role of the Australian Timber Merchant 1945-1965 The Australian Economic History Review 40,1: 22-50.

Harris, R., (1999) Housing and Social Policy. An Historical Perspective on Canadian-American Differences - A Comment Urban Studies 36, 7: 1169-1175.

Harris, R., (1999) Aided Self-Help Housing. A Case of Amnesia: Editors Introduction Housing Studies 14, 3: 277-280.

Harris, R., (1999) Slipping through the cracks. The origins of aided self-help housing 1918-1953. Housing Studies
14, 3: 281-309.

Harris, R., (1998) Constructing a Fault(y) Zone: Misrepresentations of American Cities and Suburbs, 1900-1950 (with Robert Lewis) Annals, Association of American Geographers 88, 4: 622-639.

Harris, R., (1998) A Cranks Fate and the Fêting of a Visionary: Reflections on the history of aided self-help housing, Third World Planning Review 20, 3: iii-viii.

Harris, R., (1980) The Silence of the Experts. Aided Self-Help Housing. 1939-1954. Habitat International 22, 2: 165-189.

Harris, R., (1998) Where Credit is Due. Residential Mortgage Finance in Canada, 1900-1954 (with Doris Ragonetti) Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics 16, 2: 223-238.

Harris, R., (1998) How the Past Matters. North American Cities in the Twentieth Century (with Robert Lewis). Journal of Urban Affairs 20, 2: 159-174.

Harris, R., (1997) A Burp in Church: Jacob L. Cranes Vision of Aided Self-Help Housing. Planning History Studies 11, 1 (1997): 3-16.

Harris, R., (1997)The Journey to Work. An Historical Methodology. (with A. Victoria Bloomfield) Historical Methods 30,2: 97-109.

Harris, R., (1997)The Impact of Industrial Decentralization on the Gendered Journey to Work, 1900-1940 (with A. Victoria Bloomfield) Economic Geography 73, 1997:94-117.

Harris, R., (1994) Chicago’s Other Suburbs. Geographical Review, 84,4: 394-410.

Harris, R., (1994) "The Flexible House: The Housing Backlog and the Persistence of Lodging, 1891-1951". Social Science History, 18, 1: 31-53.

Harris, R., (1994) The Making of a Working-Class Suburb in Hamilton's East End, 1900-1945 (with Matt Sendbuehler). Journal of Urban History 20, 4: 486-511.

Harris, R., (1993) Describing the Canadian City. The Housing Atlases of 1941. The Canadian Geographer, 37, 4: 143-147.

Harris, R., (1993) Industry and Residence. The Decentralization of New York City, 1900-1940. Journal of Historical Geography, 19, 2: 169-190.

Harris, R., (1992) Hamilton's East End: The Early Working-Class Suburb. (with Matt Sendbuehler) The Canadian Geographer, 36, 4: 381-386.

Harris, R., (1992) The End Justified the Means. Boarding and Rooming in a City of Homes, 1891-1951. Journal of Social History, 26, 2: 331-358.

Harris, R., (1992) Canada's All Right': The Lives and Loyalties of Immigrant Families in a Toronto Suburb, 1900-1945, The Canadian Geographer 36, 1: 13-30.

Harris, R., (1991) A Working-class Suburb for Immigrants, Toronto 1909-1931, The Geographical Review 81, 3 (1991): 318-332.

Harris, R., (1991) The Impact of Building Controls on Residential Development in Toronto, 1900-1940. Planning Perspectives 6: 269-296.

Harris, R., (1991) Self-building in the urban housing market. Economic Geography 67: 1-21.

Harris, R., (1990) The Impact of Self-Building on the Social Geography of Toronto 1901-1913: A challenge for urban theory Transactions, Institute of British Geographers 15, 4 (1990): 387-402.

Harris, R., (1990)Working-Class Home Ownership in the American Metropolis Journal of Urban History 17, 1: 46-69.

Harris, R., (1990) The Growth of Toronto: A Cartographic Essay. (with M.Luymes) Urban History Review 18, 3: 244-255.

Harris, R., (1990) The Local Culture of Property. A Comparative History of Housing Tenure in Montreal and Toronto since 1862 (with M.Choko) Annals of the Association of American Geographers 80, 1 (1990): 73-95.

Harris, R., (1990) Household Work Strategies and Suburban Home Ownership in Toronto, 1899-1913. Environment and Planning D Society and Space 8: 97-121.

Harris, R., (1989) A Defense of Urban 'Reform'. Urban History Review, 17, 3: 209-210.

Harris, R., (1988) The interpretation of urban reform: A reply to Caulfield International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 12, 3: 485-9.

Harris, R., (1988) American Suburbs: A sketch of a new interpretation Journal of Urban History 15,1: 98-103.

Harris, R., (1987) A social movement in urban politics. A reinterpretation of urban reform in Canada. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 11, 3: 363-381.

Harris, R., (1987) Housing in Canadian Society: The HIFE Files The Canadian Geographer 31, 3: 262-7.

Harris, R., (1987) The Myth of the Promised Land: The Social Diffusion of Home Ownership in Britain and North America. (with C.Hamnett) Annals of the Association of American Geographers 77, 2: 173-190.

Harris, R., (1986) Housing Affordability and Working Class Homeownership Across Canada in 1931 Histoire sociale/Social History 19, No. 37: 121-138.

Harris, R., (1986) Class Differences in Urban Homeownership: An Analysis of Recent Canadian Trends Housing Studies 1,3: 133-146.

Harris, R., (1986) Boom and Bust: The Effects of House Price Inflation on Homeownership Patterns in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver The Canadian Geographer 30,4: 302-315.

Harris, R., (1986) Homeownership and Class in Modern Canada. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 10,1: 167-86.

Harris, R., (1986) Housing in Canadian Cities: An Agenda and review of sources. Urban History Review XV, 1: 39-52.

Harris, R., (1986) How Reliable is the Modern City Directory? (with B. Moffat) The Canadian Geographer 30,2: 154-8.

Harris, R., (1986) Urban Geography. A review for part of the 'Focus' section on Historical Materialism in Geography. (with D. Rose) The Canadian Geographer 30,3: 265-7.

Harris, R., (1985) The Unnoticed Home Ownership Boom in Toronto, 1899-1911 Histoire sociale/Social History 18: 433-7.

Harris, R., (1985) The New Left in Urban Politics. Queen's Quarterly 92,3: 572-89.

Harris, R., (1984) A Political Chameleon: Class Segregation in Kingston, Ontario, 1961-1976. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 74,3: 454-76.

Harris, R., (1984) Residential Segregation and Class Formation in Canadian Cities: A Critical Review. The Canadian Geographer 28,2: 186-96.

Harris, R., (1984) Residential Segregation and Class Formation in the Capitalist City: a Review and Directions for Research. Progress in Human Geography 8,1: 26-49.

Harris, R., (1984) The Spatial Approach to the Urban Question: A Comment. Environment and Planning D. Society and Space 2,1: 101-5.

Harris, R., (1983) Space and Class: A Critique of Urry. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 7,1 : 115-121.

Harris, R., (1981) An Historical Approach to Mobility Research. (with E.G.Moore) The Professional Geographer 32, 1: 22-30.

Harris, R., (1981) Housing Tenure and Social Class in Kingston, Ontario, 1881-1901. (with G.Levine and B.S.Osborne) Journal of Historical Geography 7,3: 271-89.

Harris, R., (1979) Residential Mobility and Public Policy. (with E.G.Moore) Geographical Analysis 11,2: 175-3.

Harris, R., (1978) Directions for Mobility Research in Relation to Public Policy. (with E.G.Moore) In J. Pipkin and M. LaGory (eds.) Theory and Practise: The Contribution of the Social Sciences to Urban Planning (New York: SUNY at Albany.

 

 

 

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