
A History of the Edmonton City Market 1900-2000
Urban Values and Urban Culture
- 247 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Kathryn Chase Merrett celebrates 100 years of the Edmonton City Market in this groundbreaking local history. Richly textured with archival photographs, drawings, maps, and anecdotes by vendors and customers of the city market, this book reveals how the market managed to thrive in the heart of a city that grew from a frontier outpost to a high–rise metropolis. In this original study, Merrett sheds light on the turbulent relationship between a city's cultural and agricultural values and the civic aspirations of the city's officials. A History of the Edmonton City Market brings a comprehensive study of a long–lived and much–loved institution to life by seamlessly integrating details of the city market with wider contexts of urban, economic, and cultural studies.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Illustrations
- 1. The Market and the City, I
- 2. A castle in the Air, 1892—1916
- 3. Blue Sky Trading in Edmonton: The Bloom in the Bust, 1916—1939
- 4. The Market and the Civic Centre, 1940—1964
- 5. The 'New' City Market, 1965—2000
- 6. The Market and the City, II
- Notes
- References
- Index