Reviews / Comptes rendus Suburb, Slum, Urban Village: Transformations in Toronto’s Parkdale Neighbourhood, 1875–2002 by Carolyn Whitzman ROBERT MURDIE 381 The Early Northwest: History of the Prairie West Series Volume 1 by Gregory P. Marchildon MERLE MASSIE 382 Handbook of Tourist Behavior: Theory and Practice by Metin Kozak and Alain Decrop LISA RUTH BRUNNER 383 Thinking Planning and Urbanism by Beth Moore Milroy PIERRE FILION 384 Tides of Change on Grand Manan Island: Culture and Belonging in a Fishing Community by Joan Marshall AHMED KHAN 386 Civil Rights Memorials and the Geography of Memory by Owen J. Dywer and Derek H. Alderman ADRIENNE BURK 387 Southeast Asian Development by Andrew McGregor CANDICE GARTNER 388 Suburb, Slum, Urban Village: Transformations in Toronto’s Parkdale Neighbourhood, 1875– 2002 by Carolyn Whitzman, University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver, 2009, xiii+222 pp., cloth C$85.00 (ISBN 978-0-7748-1535-2), paper C$29.95 (ISBN 978-0-7748-1536-9) This is a book about neighbourhood change in an area of Toronto that has gone through at least three cycles of ups and downs, from suburb to slum to urban village. Whitzman’s temporal canvas is relatively unique among neighbourhood studies in that she covers 125 years of Parkdale’s history from its initial de- velopment to 2002. The book begins with a wonderful, but brief, personal perspective as Whitzman recalls her life in Parkdale, first as a graduate student in a run-down flat in one of Parkdale’s grand villas, and then several years later in a much more attractive part of Parkdale north of Queen Street. As the title suggests, Whitzman separates Park- dale’s history into three distinct periods based on images drawn from a host of quantitative and qualitative sources. These include daily and com- munity newspapers, oral histories, assessment records, land registry records, city council min- utes and census tract data from 1951 onwards. The basic theoretical argument, following an ex- tensive literature review in Chapter 1, is that changing perceptions of a neighbourhood reflect both investment considerations and the desires and fears of those who can choose where to The Canadian Geographer / Le G´ eographe canadien 54, no 3 (2010) 381–389 DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0064.2010.00319.x C  / Canadian Association of Geographers / L’Association canadienne des g´ eographes