Phillip Gordon Mackintosh is Associate Professor of Geography, Brock University. He is the author of Newspaper City: The Liberal Press and Toronto's Street Surfaces, 1860-1935 (2017), numerous publications on turn-of-the-twentieth-century cultures of urban reform and city planning, historical cycling, and urban historical geographies of class, gender, and race, and is co-editor of The World of Niagara Wine (2013).

Richard Dennis is Emeritus Professor of Geography, University College London (UCL). His books include Cities in Modernity (2008) and English Industrial Cities of the Nineteenth Century (1984). He has written for numerous publications on housing, public transport, and imaginative literature in nineteenth- and twentieth-century London and Toronto. He is an editorial committee member of The London Journal, and previously was associate editor of Journal of Urban History and series editor of Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography.

Deryck W. Holdsworth is Emeritus Professor of Geography, Pennsylvania State University. He is the co-author of Homeplace: The Making of the Canadian Dwelling over Three Centuries (1998) and was co-editor of the Historical Atlas of Canada, Volume III, Addressing the Twentieth Century (1990). He has authored numerous journal articles on office buildings, folk and industrial housing, and insights from historical hotel guest registers.