Canadas Urban Past

Author : Stephane Castonguay
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822977710
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Metropolitan Natures written by Stephane Castonguay and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2011-07-30 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the oldest metropolitan areas in North America, Montreal has evolved from a remote fur-trading post in New France into an international center for services and technology. A city and an island located at the confluence of the Ottawa and St. Lawrence Rivers, it is uniquely situated to serve as an international port while also providing rail access to the Canadian interior. The historic capital of the Province of Canada, once Canada's foremost metropolis, Montreal has a multifaceted cultural heritage drawn from European and North American influences. Thanks to its rich past, the city offers an ideal setting for the study of an evolving urban environment. Metropolitan Natures presents original histories of the diverse environments that constitute Montreal and it region. It explores the agricultural and industrial transformation of the metropolitan area, the interaction of city and hinterland, and the interplay of humans and nature. The fourteen chapters cover a wide range of issues, from landscape representations during the colonial era to urban encroachments on the Kahnawake Mohawk reservation on the south shore of the island, from the 1918-1920 Spanish flu epidemic and its ensuing human environmental modifications to the urban sprawl characteristic of North America during the postwar period. Situations that politicize the environment are discussed as well, including the economic and class dynamics of flood relief, highways built to facilitate recreational access for the middle class, power-generating facilities that invade pristine rural areas, and the elitist environmental hegemony of fox hunting. Additional chapters examine human attempts to control the urban environment through street planning, waterway construction, water supply, and sewerage.

Author : Alan F. J. Artibise
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 9780774801348
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Canada's Urban Past written by Alan F. J. Artibise and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major reference work containing more than 7,000 entries bringstogether for the first time virtually all of the material that existsin the field of Canadian urban studies - up to 1980.

Author : Alan F. Artibise
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780774801690
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Canada's Urban Past written by Alan F. Artibise and published by . This book was released on 2002-02-02 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major reference work containing more than 7,000 entries bringstogether for the first time virtually all of the material that existsin the field of Canadian urban studies - up to 1980.

Author : Maxwell Hartt
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774866195
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quietly Shrinking Cities written by Maxwell Hartt and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Gilbert Stelter
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773584854
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Canadian City written by Gilbert Stelter and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1984-12-15 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emphasis is on urban society, with new essays on social structure, the family, ethnicity and immigration, and religion. Other sections are devoted to urban growth, the physical environment, and urban government and reform.

Author : James W. Simmons
Publisher : CNIB, [197-]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Canada written by James W. Simmons and published by CNIB, [197-]. This book was released on 1969 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gilbert A. Stelter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cities and Urbanization written by Gilbert A. Stelter and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alan F. J. Artibise
Publisher : McGill Queens University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780770517939
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Usable Urban Past written by Alan F. J. Artibise and published by McGill Queens University Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of original essays serves both the historians and geographers who seek a deeper understanding of Canada's urban past, and the planners, politicians and citizens who seek to preserve or to change their cities today.

Author : Harry H. Hiller
Publisher : Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Canada written by Harry H. Hiller and published by Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book a succint discussion on urban issues with specific focus on Canadian materials and the Canadian context. Several features include Aboriginal urbanization in Canada, extensive focus on both the rural and urban econmy, immigration, crime, and gender. The overall emphasis of the text is to unite experts in the field of urban sociological issues from a Canadian perspective.

Author : Carolyn Hughes Tuohy
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487519877
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Policy Transformation in Canada written by Carolyn Hughes Tuohy and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2019-04-08 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canada's centennial anniversary in 1967 coincided with a period of transformative public policymaking. This period saw the establishment of the modern welfare state, as well as significant growth in the area of cultural diversity, including multiculturalism and bilingualism. Meanwhile, the rising commitment to the protection of individual and collective rights was captured in the project of a "just society." Tracing the past, present, and future of Canadian policymaking, Policy Transformation in Canada examines the country's current and most critical challenges: the renewal of the federation, managing diversity, Canada's relations with Indigenous peoples, the environment, intergenerational equity, global economic integration, and Canada's role in the world. Scrutinizing various public policy issues through the prism of Canada’s sesquicentennial, the contributors consider the transformation of policy and present an accessible portrait of how the Canadian view of policymaking has been reshaped, and where it may be heading in the next fifty years.