TY - THES KW - Berlin (Ontario) AU - Elizabeth Bloomfield AB - A study in urban history, organized thematically to include chapters on urban- industrial development in southern Ontario between 1870 and 1930, the urban ethos, a prosopographical analysis of community elites, municipal industrial policies, processes shaping the urban environment to 1912, and later efforts to reshape the urban landscape by planning. The thesis includes many maps and graphs, detailed endnotes and a bibliography; appendices present tables summarizing the roles of community leaders and the entrepreneurs who received municipal inducements. Several published articles and chapters in books have made the thesis findings more accessible to users. C2 - Berliner Journal; Berlin News Record; Berlin Daily Telegraph; Berlin and Waterloo Street Railway Co.; Berlin Board of Health; Berlin Board of Trade; Berlin City Council; Berlin Civic Improvement Association; Berlin Gas and Electric Co.; Berlin Town Council; Berlin Village Council; D. Hibner and Co., Berlin; Dominion Rubber Co., Berlin; Dominion Sugar Co., Berlin; Dominion Tire Factory, Kitchener; Evangelical Association; Breithaupt Leather Co., Berlin; Grand River Railway; Hydro Electric Power Commission of Ontario; Kaufman Lumber Co., Berlin; Kaufman Rubber Co., Berlin; Kitchener Board of Trade; Kitchener Chamber of Commerce; Kitchener City Council; Kitchener City Planning Commission; Kitchener Light Commission; Lang Leather Co., Berlin; Merchant's Rubber Co., Berlin; Pioneer Button Works, Berlin; Preston and Berlin Electric Street Railway Co.; Simpson Furniture Co., Berlin; U.S. Rubber; Waterloo Board of Trade; Waterloo Chamber of Commerce; Waterloo College and Seminary; Waterloo Town Council; Waterloo Village Council; Zion Evangelical Church, Berlin C3 - Berlin; Kitchener; Waterloo C4 - 1830-1930 C7 - English(30) DP - Elizabeth Bloomfield. WATERLOO REGIONAL HISTORY BIBLIOGRAPHY SYSTEM. Most pre-1993 items are also included in the print work Waterloo County to 1972: an Annotated Bibliography of Regional History. Kitchener: Waterloo Regional Heritage Foundation, 1993. ET - PhD ID - 1319 LA - English M1 - Dissertation/Thesis M3 - Print(0) PB - University of Guelph (PhD thesis, History) PY - 1981 EP - 548 l. ill. EP - maps EP - bibl.+ T1 - City-building processes in Berlin/Kitchener and Waterloo, 1870-1930 ER -