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Author |
: Lisa Benton-Short |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 431 |
Release |
: 2013-12-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781442213159 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1442213159 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cities of North America by : Lisa Benton-Short
This timely textprovides a comprehensive overview of the dramatic and rapidly evolving issues confronting the cities of North America. Metropolitan areas throughout the United States and Canada face a range of dynamic and complex concerns—including the redistribution of economic activities, the continued decline of manufacturing, and a global growth in services. The contributors provide compelling examples: Inner cities have experienced both gentrification and continued areas of segregation and poverty. Downtown revitalization has created urban spectacles that include festivals, marketplaces, and sports stadiums. Older, inner-ring suburbs now confront decline and increased poverty, while the outer-ring suburbs and exurbs continue to expand, devouring green space. The book explores how the combined processes of urbanization and globalization have added new responsibilities for city governments at the same time leaders are grappling with planning, economic development and finance, justice, equity, and social cohesion. Cities have become the stage upon which new forms of ethnic, racial, and sexual identities are constructed and reconstructed. They are also connected to wider ecological processes as urban spaces are compromised by manmade and natural disasters alike. Introducing contemporary spatial arrangements and distributions of activities in metropolitan areas, this clear and accessible book covers economic, social, political, and ecological changes. It is also the only text to include the physical geography of urban areas. Bringing together leading geographers, it will be an ideal resource for courses on urban geography and geography of the city. Contributions by: Matthew Anderson, Lisa Benton-Short, Geoff Buckley, Christopher DeSousa, Bernadette Hanlon, Amanda Huron, Yeong-Hyun Kim, Nathaniel M. Lewis, Robert Lewis, Deborah Martin, Lindsey Sutton, John Tiefenbacher, Thomas J. Vicino, Katie Wells, and David Wilson.
Author |
: Justin D. Edwards |
Publisher |
: University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages |
: 241 |
Release |
: 2005-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780802086686 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0802086683 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Downtown Canada by : Justin D. Edwards
Downtown Canada is a collection of essays that addresses Canada as an urban place. The contributors focus their attention on the writing of Canada's cities and call attention to the centrality of the city in Canadian literature.
Author |
: Maxwell Hartt |
Publisher |
: UBC Press |
Total Pages |
: 220 |
Release |
: 2021-04-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780774866194 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0774866195 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis Quietly Shrinking Cities by : Maxwell Hartt
At 5 percent, Canada’s population growth was the highest of all G7 countries when the most recent census was taken. But only a handful of large cities drove that growth, attracting human and monetary capital from across the country and leaving myriad social, economic, and environmental challenges behind. Quietly Shrinking Cities investigates this trend and the practical challenges associated with population loss in smaller urban centres. Maxwell Hartt meticulously demonstrates that shrinking cities need to rethink their planning and development strategies in response to a new demographic reality, questioning whether population loss and prosperity are indeed mutually exclusive.
Author |
: Trudi E. Bunting |
Publisher |
: Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 552 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015064917225 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis Canadian Cities in Transition by : Trudi E. Bunting
As the federal government's recent 'New Deal for Cities' suggests, the importance of cities is now widely recognized. Large urban centres are seen at once as primary engines of the economy and as concentrations of societal problems: poverty, homelessness, criminality, environmental degradation. Calls are thus mounting not only for the allocation of more resources but for the adoption of new policies, grounded in urban realities, that will enable Canadian cities to function more effectively. This third edition of Canadian Cities in Transition has been completely revised and updated. Examining the uneven development and uncertain future of Canadian cities, 41 specialists in the field-urban geographers, political scientists, urban planners, civil engineers-offer state-of-the-art understanding of everything from the evolution of the Canadian urban system to site-specific design, problems of transportation and infrastructure, the containment of urban sprawl, the impacts of immigration and gentrification, and the sustainability of cities-both environmentally and economically. The 27 chapters are supported by abundant illustrative material-maps, tables, figures, and photographs-and followed by two appendices, one discussing the changing nature of urban research and the other presenting essential data on Canada's census metropolitan areas. In addition, for the first time this new edition includes a comprehensive bibliography. Required reading for students of Canadian urban geography and urban studies, Canadian Cities in Transition: Local Through Global Perspectives will also be an invaluable resource for anyone concerned about the future of Canada's cities. Book jacket.
Author |
: Bert Sperling |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 866 |
Release |
: 2007-05-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780470068649 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0470068647 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cities Ranked & Rated by : Bert Sperling
Evaluates more than four hundred metropolitan areas in the United States and Canada, rating such factors as job market, housing costs, crime rates, climate, health care, education, and quality of life.
Author |
: Katherine A.H. Graham |
Publisher |
: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages |
: 293 |
Release |
: 2014-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780773596306 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0773596305 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis Canada in Cities by : Katherine A.H. Graham
The federal government and its policies transform Canadian cities in myriad ways. Canada in Cities examines this relationship to better understand the interplay among changing demographics, how local governments and citizens frame their arguments for federal action, and the ways in which the national government uses its power and resources to shape urban Canada. Most studies of local governance in Canada focus on politics and policy within cities. The essays in this collection turn such analysis on its head, by examining federal programs, rather than municipal ones, and observing how they influence local policies and work with regional authorities and civil societies. Through a series of case studies - ranging from federal policy concerning Aboriginal people in cities, to the introduction of the federal gas tax transfer to municipalities, to the impact of Canada's emergency management policies on cities - the contributors provide insights about how federal politics influence the local political arena. Analyzing federal actions in diverse policy fields, the authors uncover meaningful patterns of federal action and outcome in Canadian cities. A timely contribution, Canada in Cities offers a comprehensive study of diverse areas of municipal public policy that have emerged in Canada in recent years.
Author |
: Canada. Department of Agriculture |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 426 |
Release |
: 1894 |
ISBN-10 |
: PRNC:32101027585114 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis Census of Canada, 1890-91 by : Canada. Department of Agriculture
Author |
: John Lorinc |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 417 |
Release |
: 2016-12-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780735233454 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0735233454 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis New City by : John Lorinc
Shaped by immigration, and demographics, our hub cities demonstrate what’s best about Canada: our commitment to education, tolerance, culture, and innovation. Since the early 1990s, however, troubling trends have threatened to undermine our much-envied quality of life. In The New City, award-winning urban affairs writer John Lorinc offers a compelling vision of how to make Canada’s metropolitan centres sustainable, livable, and competitive. Incisive and broad-ranging, this is a timely reminder that all Canadians must confront urban issues if the country is to succeed in the tumultuous economy of the 21st century.
Author |
: National Geographic Society (U.S.) |
Publisher |
: National Geographic Books |
Total Pages |
: 324 |
Release |
: 2015 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781426215643 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1426215649 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Destinations of a Lifetime by : National Geographic Society (U.S.)
"Plan where, when, and how to plot your adventure with National Geographic's worldwide network of travel experts and insider tips from locals"--Cover.
Author |
: Heather A. Howard |
Publisher |
: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press |
Total Pages |
: 264 |
Release |
: 2011-04-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781554583140 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1554583144 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis Aboriginal Peoples in Canadian Cities by : Heather A. Howard
Since the 1970s, Aboriginal people have been more likely to live in Canadian cities than on reserves or in rural areas. Aboriginal rural-to-urban migration and the development of urban Aboriginal communities represent one of the most significant shifts in the histories and cultures of Aboriginal peoples in Canada. The essays in Aboriginal Peoples in Canadian Cities: Transformations and Continuities are from contributors directly engaged in urban Aboriginal communities; they draw on extensive ethnographic research on and by Aboriginal people and their own lived experiences. The interdisciplinary studies of urban Aboriginal community and identity collected in this volume offer narratives of unique experiences and aspects of urban Aboriginal life. They provide innovative perspectives on cultural transformation and continuity and demonstrate how comparative examinations of the diversity within and across urban Aboriginal experiences contribute to broader understandings of the relationship between Aboriginal peoples and the Canadian state and to theoretical debates about power dynamics in the production of community and in processes of identity formation.