"This should be required reading for all involved in urban planning as neighbourhoods play a critical role in the quality of urban living. This thorough investigation of the concept of neighbourhood and of the evolving understanding and reality of neighbourhoods since the origins of Canadian urbanization provides essential knowledge to anyone interested in cities and their improvement. The knowledge of neighbourhoods Richard Harris provides advances the understanding of cities and of how to make them more equitable and efficient.Good neighbourhoods make good cities."--Pierre Filion, Professor Emeritus in the School of Planning, University of Waterloo "Richard Harris is to be congratulated for this first systematic book on neighbourhoods in Canadian cities and suburbs. His text ranges comprehensively through time and across the nation, and in a period when redevelopment is again threatening valued urban places, the significance and resilience of urban neighbourhoods is a message that needs to be heard. Harris achieves his objectives admirably."--David Ley OC, Professor Emeritus of Urban Geography, University of British Columbia "With his meticulous scholarship, Richard Harris provides us with the definitive guide to the Canadian neighbourhood, its history, and its geography.

In this deep, dazzling, and detailed study, he once again redefines what it means to live in urban Canada and offers, at the same time, an encompassing and engrossing social portrait of an urbanizing country."--Roger Keil, Distinguished Research Professor, York University "Richard Harris a réussi son pari! Le quartier est au coeur de nos modes de vie et révèle la complexité changeante des villes. Cette synthèse historique, dense et foisonnante des connaissances sur la nature et l'évolution des quartiers au Canada (et aux USA) sera un apport personnel et précieux en Études urbaines."--Annick Germain, Professeure titulaire, Directrice des programmes conjoints en études urbaines, Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Montréal.