The City Below The Hill : : The Slums of Montreal, 1897 / / Herbert Brown Ames.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Ames, Herbert Brown,
• MitwirkendeR: Rutherford, P.F.W.,
• TeilnehmendeR: Rutherford, Paul.
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1972
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (136 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; An introduction --; Contents --; 1. Introduction --; 2. Employment --; 3. The composition of the family --; 4. Family incomes and workers' wages --; 5. The homes of the wage-earners --; 6. Comparative rentals --; 7. Density and overcrowding --; 8. The poor of the west end --; 9. The death rate --; 10. Nationalities and religions --; The housing of the working classes
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781442656291; 9783110490947
• DOI: 10.3138/9781442656291
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Herbert Brown Ames.

The city below the hill is a detailed investigation of social conditions in a working class quarter of Montreal during the 1890s. Based on a house-to-house survey of the neighbourhood, this study catalogues and analyses the life of working people after the first years of rapid industrialization. Sir Herbert Brown Ames was one of the first to recognize that urbanization was inevitable and to set about improving the quality of city life. In this study, first published in book form in 1897, he moves towards the concept of urban ecology—the city is an organism defined by, and expressing itself in, a myriad of social and economic phenomena. As an organic whole its well-being depends upon the well-being of all its citizens. Within this pioneering work are the seeds of the town planning and social welfare movements that later tried to change the urban landscape. The city below the hill is crammed with facts and statistical analyses of late nineteenth century urban workers. A landmark in the development of urban consciousness in Canada and of sociological research, it is one of the first major efforts to solve problems that are still with us.