From Walk-up to High-Rise: Ottawa's Historic Apartment Buildings by Shannon Ricketts, Susan Ross 2017

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Covering the timeframe from 1900 to 1975,  From Walk-up to High-Rise tells how apartment living emerged in 20th-century Ottawa. Focusing on Centretown, Sandy Hill and Lowertown East, it looks at the demographic and economic pressures that helped shape these new housing forms, the entrepreneurs and designers who created them, and the people who lived there.