Thank you for reading the spring 2017 issue of Urban History Review / Revue d’histoire urbaine. The timing of the summer 2018 publication of this issue may seem strange to readers. We are roughly eighteen months behind in our publication schedule. Internal changes in the journal’s editorial composition, coupled with challenges presented by the fast-moving scholarly publishing business (particularly acute for niche journals like UHR/RHU) slowed our publication process for the past few years. But our ongoing efforts to adapt have yielded a healthy pipeline of future issues that promises to get our publication schedule back on time and provide a set of practices and relationships that will enable the journal to maintain relevance. Most notably, this is the first issue for which Harold Bérubé joins me as co-editor, serving as the editor for French-language content. Although there are no French-language articles in this particular issue, Dr. Bérubé has been a critical participant in the journal’s planning and has managed the pipeline of French-language articles that may appear in future issues. We also welcome two new associate editors. Joining our team of Jordan Stanger-Ross, Michèle Dagenais, and Stephen Bocking are Daniel Ross and Nicholas Kenny. They perform many of the important tasks necessary to maintain the intellectual vibrancy of the journal, including reviewing a good share of articles, guest editing special issues, and generally promoting the journal as a place to submit excellent scholarship on Canada’s urban history. Indeed, Dr. Ross is guest editor of a forthcoming special issue of UHR/RHU (with Matthieu Caron) on bad behaviour in Canadian cities. This is merely one of several guest-edited themed issues under development. But relying on our editorial board is not enough. For any journal to make a case for its ongoing existence, there must be a vibrant scholarly community underpinning it, with which it engages in iterative synergistic exchange. While the robustness of Canadian urban history scholarship is evident in the excellent articles appearing in our recent issues and several award- winning books of the past few years, there is unrealized potential for leadership in organizing intellectual exchange among this scholarly community. For this reason, we are pleased to announce the creation of an urban history committee formally organized under the Canadian Historical Association, called the Canadian Urban History Caucus. The immediate outcome, like that of many years past, will be a themed panel organized annually for the CHA conference. In the meantime, we have assembled an issue about which we are very excited. The first article, by Mary Anne Poutanen and Jason Gilliland, is called “Mapping Work in Early Twentieth-Century Montreal: A Rabbi, a Neighbourhood, and a Community.” It provides an account of Montreal’s Yiddish-speaking immigrant community during the early twentieth century from the perspective of the activities of an orthodox rabbi’s interactions with it. In addition to the article’s merit as an important contribution to urban religious community history and Canadian Jewish history, its methodological approach is particularly noteworthy. The authors use Historical Geographic Information Systems (HGIS) analysis of their extensive data sources to spatially map the rabbi’s activities over time. Doing so underscores many interesting facts, notably the relationship between the rabbi’s spatial mobility and social mobility. Canadian HGIS research has received a lot of attention recently, thanks to an edited volume by Jennifer Bonnell and Marcel Fortin. There are many ways of integrating GIS into the study of Canadian urban history, and Poutanen and Gilliland’s article provides a successful and innovative example for others. The second article represents a substantial contribution to the growing (yet under-researched) topic of Canadian planning history. In “Politicking for Postwar Modernism: …