Canadian Cities in Transition
The Twenty-First Century
2nd Edition
Published in April 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
584 pages
978-0-19-541288-8 (ISBN)
Description
Canadian Cities in Transition brings together newly commissioned articles in order to provide a detailed overview of recent trends affecting Canadian cities, and future policy implications these trends will have on Canadian cities. Aimed at students studying urban geography, and focusing specifically on the Canadian city, it provides the most current research available. Divided into five sections-national perspectives, regional perspectives, intra-urban perspectives, urban functions, and social issues and the public sector-the book covers a wide range of subjects. Starting with the Canadian city in the global context, and urbanization in historical perspective, it concludes with an examination of issues such as the inner city, housing, the urban retail landscape, and planning and development. The second edition is a significant revision from the first, with numerous new articles, new contributors, and a much more closely linked editorial structure.
The new second edition includes more emphasis on planning, on the environment, and on urban design, as well as more information on the contemporary social and economic transformations which are affecting society as a whole and echoed in cities.
The new second edition includes more emphasis on planning, on the environment, and on urban design, as well as more information on the contemporary social and economic transformations which are affecting society as a whole and echoed in cities.
More details
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Canada
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
fig., halftones
halftones and line figures
ISBN-13
978-0-19-541288-8 (9780195412888)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Previous edition
Trudi E. Bunting
Canadian Cities in Transition
Book
02/1991
Oxford University Press, Canada
€27.86
Article exhausted; check for reprint
Persons
Content
CONTRIBUTORS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Cities and Transition: Changing Patterns or Urban Growth and Form in Canada; Urban Canada in Transition to the Twenty-First Century: Trends, Issues, and Visions; PART ONE: THE CONTEXT: URBAN SYSTEMS; Canadian Cites in Continental Context: Global and Continental Perspectives on Canadian Development; The Core-Periphery Structure of Canada's Urban Systems; Growth and Transition in the Canadian Urban System; Canadian Cities and Shifting Fortunes of Economic Development; PART TWO: CITY-WIDE PROCESSES; Cities as Real Estate; Transportation and Communication; The City as Social Space; Form and Energy in the Urban Built Environment; PART THREE: INTERNAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE CITY; Central and Suburban Downtowns; The Inner City; Suburbs; The City's Countryside; PART FOUR: LAND USES AND ACTIVITIES; Employment and Transitions in the City; Housing; Dynamics of the Canadian Retail Environment; PART FIVE: GOVERNANCE AND PLANNING; The Municipal Role in the Governance of Canadian Cities; Planning Canadian Cities: Contexts, Continuity, Change; Contemporary Planning: Issues and Innovations; PART SIX: PRESSING ISSUES; The Ecological Restructuring of Urban Form; Cities of the Everyday: Socio-Spatial Perspectives on Gender, Difference, and Diversity; Urban Homelessness in Canada; Power and Decision-Making in the City: Political Perspectives; APPENDIX 1: URBAN DEFINITIONS, STATISTICS CANADA, 1996; APPENDIX 2: SELECTED DATA ON CANADA'S CENSUS METROPOLITAN AREAS, 1996; INDEX