| Lecturer | Dan Horner Associate Professor, Department of Criminology / Chair, Department of Criminology, Toronto Metropolitan University |
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| Date | Monday, April 20, 2026 17:30-19:00 |
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| Venue | Room 821, 8F Central Library, Sophia University Yotsuya Campus | |
| Language | English |
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| Admission | Free | |
| No registration is required. | ||
| Over the course of the nineteenth-century, the port city of Montreal transformed from a remote colonial outpost of the British Empire into an industrial metropolis. Migrants from near and far came to the city in search of economic opportunity. Infrastructure was built, forests were felled, and streams were filled in. Social relations were altered to suit the ever-changing needs of capital. It was on the city’s urban fringe- the liminal spaces where the countryside butted up against the urban core- that the scale of this transformation is most visible. By focusing on the edge of town rather than the city centre, we can learn a great deal about how industrializing cities worked: How a diverse array of people made ends meet in a challenging environment, how landscapes were altered to meet a variety of human needs, and how new practices in urban governance- from policing to street-lighting- faded in efficacy as they approached the city limits. |
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