Publications – Robert Lewis

BOOKS

Robert Lewis, Chicago’s Industrial Decline: The Failure of Redevelopment, 1920–1975. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020)
Robert Lewis, Calculating Property Relations: Chicago’s Wartime Industrial Mobilization, 1940-1950. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2016).
Robert Lewis, Chicago Made: Factory Networks and the Industrial Metropolis, 1865-1940. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008).
Robert Lewis, editor. The Manufacturing Suburb: Building Work and Home on the Metropolitan Fringe. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004).
Robert Lewis, Manufacturing Montreal: The Making of an Industrial Landscape, 1850-1930. (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2000).

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Paul Hess and Robert Lewis, “Property Rights, Redevelopment Areas, and Toronto Ratepayer Associations in the 1950s,” Journal of Urban History, 45 (2019): 279-99
Robert Lewis, “Comments on urban agency: relational space and intentionality,” Urban History, 44 (2017): 137-44
Robert Lewis and Paul Hess, “Refashioning Urban Space in Post-War Toronto: The Wood-Wellesley Redevelopment Area, 1952-1972,” Planning Perspectives, 31 (2016): 563-84
Robert Lewis and Matti Siemiatycki, “Building on Time and Budget: Price’s Dock, Bombay, 1875-1880,” Journal of Policy History, 27 (2015): 722-45.
Robert Lewis, “Modern industrial policy and zoning: Chicago, 1910-1930,” Urban History, 40 (2013): 92-113
Richard Harris and Robert Lewis, “A Happy Confluence of Planning and Statistics: Bombay and Calcutta in the 1901 Census.” Planning Perspectives, 28 (2013): 125-38.
Robert Lewis and Richard Harris, “Segregation and the social relations of place: Bombay, circa 1901,” South Asia, 36 (2013): 1-19.
Richard Harris and Robert Lewis, “Numbers didn’t count: the streets of colonial Bombay and Calcutta,” Urban History, 39 (2012): 639-58
Robert Lewis, “Place-based corporate hegemony: General Electric in Tell City, Indiana, 1943-1947,” Journal of Historical Geography, 36 (2010): 432-40.
Jason Cooke and Robert Lewis, “Bridging nature: the urban political ecology of capital circulation in Chicago, 1909-1930,” Urban Geography, 31 (2010): 348-68.
Robert Lewis, “Rationalizing the workplace: Canadian textile firms, 1929-1935,” Enterprise and Society, 10 (2009): 498-528.
Robert Lewis, “Industrial districts and manufacturing linkages: Chicago’s printing industry, 1880-1950,” Economic History Review, 62 (2009): 366-87.
Robert Lewis, “World War II manufacturing and the postwar southern economy,” Journal of Southern History, 73 (2007): 837-66.
Robert Lewis, “Planned districts in Chicago: firms, networks and boundaries, 1900-1940,” Journal of Planning History, 3 (2004): 29-49.
Robert Lewis, “Local production practices and Chicago’s automotive industry, 1900-1930,” Business History Review, 77 (2003): 611-38.
Robert Lewis, “The industrial suburb is dead, long live the industrial slum: suburbs and slums in Chicago and Montreal, 1850-1950,” Planning Perspectives, 17 (2002): 123-44
Robert Lewis, “The changing fortunes of American central-city manufacturing, 1870-1950,” Journal of Urban History, 28 (2002): 573-98.
Robert Lewis, “Redesigning the workplace: the North American flexible factory in the interwar period,” Technology and Culture, 42 (2001): 665-84.
Robert Lewis, “A city transformed: manufacturing districts and suburban growth in Montreal, 1850-1929,” Journal of Historical Geography, 27 (2001): 20-35. [Reprinted with modifications in Lewis (ed.), The Manufacturing Suburbs (2004), 76-91]
Richard Walker and Robert Lewis, “Beyond the crabgrass frontier: industry and the spread of North American cities, 1850-1950,” Journal of Historical Geography, 27 (2001): 3-19. [Reprinted with changes in Lewis (ed.), The Manufacturing Suburbs (2004), 16-31]
Richard Harris and Robert Lewis, “The geography of North American cities, 1900-1950: a reinterpretation,” Journal of Urban History, 27 (2001: 262-92. [Reprinted in B. Nicolaides and A. Wiese (eds), The Suburb Reader (New York: Routledge, 2006), 125-33.]
Richard Harris and Robert Lewis, “Constructing a fault(y) zone: misrepresentations of American cities and suburbs, 1900-1950,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 88 (1998): 622-39.
Richard Harris and Robert Lewis, “How the past matters: North American cities in the twentieth century,” Journal of Urban Affairs, 20 (1998): 159-74.
Robert Lewis, “Productive strategies and manufacturing reorganization in Montreal’s central district, 1850-1900,” Urban Geography, 16 (1995): 4-22.
Robert Lewis, “Productive and spatial strategies in the Montreal tobacco industry, 1850-1918,” Economic Geography, 70 (1994): 370-89.
Robert Lewis, “Restructuring and the formation of an industrial district in Montreal’s East End, 1850-1914,” Journal of Historical Geography, 20 (1994): 143-57.
Robert Lewis, “The segregated city: class residential patterns and the development of industrial districts in Montreal, 1861 and 1901,” Journal of Urban History, 16 (1991): 123-52.
Robert Lewis, “The development of an early suburban industrial district: the Montreal ward of Saint-Ann, 1851-1871,” Urban History Review, 19 (1991): 166-80.
Robert Lewis, “Homeownership reassessed for Montreal in the 1840s,” Canadian Geographer, 34 (1990): 150-52.
Steven Hertzog and Robert Lewis, “A city of tenants: homeownership and social class in Montreal, 1847-1881,” Canadian Geographer, 30 (1986): 316-23.

BOOK CHAPTERS

Robert Lewis, “Divided space: racial transition areas and relocation, 1947-1960” in Robert Sweeny (ed.), Sharing Spaces: Essays in Honour of Sherry Olson. Ottawa: les presses de l’Université d’Ottawa and the Museum of Canadian History, 2020), 17-38.
Nick Lombardo and Robert Lewis, “Urban historical geography,” in Barney Warf (ed.), Oxford Bibliographies in Geography (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018).
Robert Lewis and Nick Lombardo, “Economic historical geography,” in Barney Warf (ed.), Oxford Bibliographies in Geography (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016).
Richard Harris and Robert Lewis, “Introduction,” in E. P. Richards, Report by Request of the Trust on the Condition, Improvement, and Town Planning of the City of Calcutta and Contiguous Areas. (Ware, Herts.: Jennings and Bewley, 1914, Reprinted 2015)
Robert Lewis, “The urban revolution,” in Lisa Benton-Short (ed), Cities of North America (Totowa: Rowman and Littlefield, 2014), 59-84.
Robert Lewis, “Networks and the industrial metropolis: Chicago’s Calumet District, 1870-1940,” in Clemens Zimmermann (ed.), Industrial Cities, History and Future (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013), 89-114.
Richard Harris and Robert Lewis, “Colonial anxiety counted: plague and census in Bombay and Calcutta, 1901,” in Robert Peckham and David Pomfret (eds.), Imperial Contagions: Medicine and Cultures of Planning in Asia, 1880-1949 (Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong Press, 2013), 94-126.
Robert Lewis, “Manufacturing and the suburbs” in Robert Lewis (ed.), The Manufacturing Suburb: Building Work and Home on the Metropolitan Fringe (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004), 1-15.
Robert Lewis, “Running rings around the city: North American industrial suburbs, 1850-1950,” in Richard Harris and Peter Larkham (eds.), Changing Suburbs (London: E & FN Spon, 1999), 146-67.
Robert Lewis, “Unemployment and labour markets in Hamilton during the Great Depression,” in Jon Caulfield and Linda Peake (eds.), City Lives and City Forms (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996), 239-59.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Robert Lewis, “Historical geographies of industry” Audrey Kobayashi (ed.), International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2020, 2nd edition), Vol. 7, 261-68. [An updated version of “Historical geographies of industry” in Robert Kitchen and Nigel Thrift (eds.), International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2009), 426-32]
Robert Lewis, “Stories of Chicago: narrative, theory and evidence: a review essay,” Journal of Urban History, 38 (2012): 1138-44.
Robert Lewis, The following entries in David Goldfield (ed.), Encyclopedia in American Urban History (Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2007):
Volume I: “Concentric zone theory” (pp. 182-84); “Financial districts” (pp. 267-69); “Industrial suburb” (pp. 376-77)
Volume II: “Metropolitan area” (pp. 458-60; “Multi-centered metropolis and multiple nuclei theory” (pp.503-504); “Satellite city” (pp. 705-706); and “Suburbanization” (pp. 776-79).