Usable Urban Past Planning And Politics

Author : Alan F.J. Artibise
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773580646
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Usable Urban Past Planning and Politics written by Alan F.J. Artibise and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1980-11-15 with total page 399 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 : 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 : Alan F. J. Artibise
Publisher :
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Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Usable Urban Past [sound Recording] : Planning and Politics in the Modern Canadian City written by Alan F. J. Artibise and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul-André Linteau
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
ISBN 13 : 9781550282962
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quebec Since 1930 written by Paul-André Linteau and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of Tables List of Maps List of Figures Preface PART 1: THE DEPRESSION AND THE WAR 1930-1945 Introduction Quebec in 1929 The Depression A Troubled Period The Second World War

Author : J Barry Cullingworth
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134881193
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Culture of Planning written by J Barry Cullingworth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-26 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Jack Masson
Publisher : University of Alberta
ISBN 13 : 9780888642516
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alberta's Local Governments: Politics and Democracy written by Jack Masson and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 1994 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last decade, Alberta municipalities have endured hardships they have not faced since the Great Depression. Changes in the province's political structures appear to have been made primarily to transfer a greater share of the costs of local government to the municipalities, yet surprisingly few municipal politicians have resisted the province's financial policies.

Author : Jim Blanchard
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN 13 : 0887555799
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Diminished Roar written by Jim Blanchard and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2019-09-06 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third instalment in Jim Blanchard’s popular history of early Winnipeg, "A Diminished Roar" presents a city in the midst of enormous change. Once the fastest growing city in Canada, by 1920 Winnipeg was losing its dominant position in western Canada. As the decade began, Winnipeggers were reeling from the chaos of the Great War and the influenza pandemic. But it was the divisions exposed by the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike which left the deepest marks. As Winnipeg wrestled with its changing fortunes, its citizens looked for new ways to imagine the city’s future and identity. Beginning with the opening of the magnificent new provincial legislature building in 1920, A Diminished Roar guides readers through this decade of political and social turmoil. At City Hall, two very different politicians dominated the scene. Winnipeg’s first Labour mayor, S.J. Farmer, pushed for more public services. His rival, Ralph Webb, would act as the city’s chief “booster” as mayor, encouraging U.S. tourists with the promise of“snowballs and highballs.” Meanwhile, promoters tried to rekindle the city’s spirits with plans for new public projects, such as a grand boulevard through the middle of the city, a new amusement park, and the start of professional horse racing. In the midst of the Jazz Age, Winnipeg’s teenagers grappled with “problems of the heart,” and social groups like the Gyro Club organized masked balls for the city’s elite.

Author : Carolyn Whitzman
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774858834
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Suburb, Slum, Urban Village written by Carolyn Whitzman and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2010-01-02 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suburb, Slum, Urban Village examines the relationship between image and reality for one city neighbourhood – Toronto’s Parkdale. Carolyn Whitzman tracks Parkdale’s story across three eras: its early decades as a politically independent suburb of the industrial city; its half-century of ostensible decline toward becoming a slum; and a post-industrial period of transformation into a revitalized urban village. This book also shows how Parkdale’s image influenced planning policy for the neighbourhood, even when the prevailing image of Parkdale had little to do with the actual social conditions there. Whitzman demonstrates that this misunderstanding of social conditions had discriminatory effects. For example, even while Parkdale’s reputation as a gentrified area grew in the post-sixties era, the overall health and income of the neighbourhood’s residents was in fact decreasing, and the area attracted media coverage as a “dumping ground” for psychiatric outpatients. Parkdale’s changing image thus stood in stark contrast to its real social conditions. Nevertheless, this image became a self-fulfilling prophecy, as it contributed to increasingly skewed planning practices for Parkdale in the late twentieth century. This rich and detailed history of a neighbourhood’s actual conditions, imaginary connotations, and planning policies will appeal to scholars and students in urban studies, planning, and geography, as well as to general readers interested in Toronto and Parkdale’s urban history.

Author : Mary Louise McAllister
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780774810630
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Governing Ourselves? written by Mary Louise McAllister and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular rhetoric suggests that the 21st century has ushered in an era of homogeneity. Urbanization, globalization, amalgamation, media conglomeration, and technological convergence have become familiar terms to us -- terms coined to reflect the effect of the complex and diverse forces at work in communities across the country. Given such overwhelming pressures, how are people within these communities able to make decisions about their own environment, either individually or collectively? To what extent can they govern themselves? This stimulating text considers questions of influence and power within local institutions and decision-making processes using numerous illustrations from municipalities across Canada. The challenges to local governance are examined from a wide array of perspectives; communities large and small from Iqualuit to Toronto are offered as examples. In an original approach to the subject, McAllister pays particular attention to smaller and more remote cities of Canada. Case studies of Prince George, British Columbia; Sherbrooke, Quebec; Saint John, New Brunswick; Kitchener and Waterloo, Ontario are used to illustrate historic and contemporary challenges for local governance. Governing Ourselves? covers traditional topics related to Canadian local government structures, institutions, and intergovernmental relations. At the same time, it reaches more broadly into other areas of inquiry that are relevant to geography, urban planning, environmental studies, public administration, sociology, and Canadian studies. A wide-ranging exploration of Canadian communities and their politics, this book is relevant to the practitioner, student, academic, and anyone who wonders whether, in fact, we do govern ourselves.

Author : Eran Razin
Publisher : University of Alberta
ISBN 13 : 9789654932851
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Metropolitan Governing written by Eran Razin and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2006-12-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metropolitan reforms have been implemented in Canada at a scale and frequency greater than anywhere else in the democratic world. Recent Canadian metropolitan reforms are setting precedents and could influence metropolitan agendas worldwide. This edited collection deals with the recent local government reforms in major Canadian cities—Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Winnipeg, and Vancouver—and provides comparative insights from other countries—Britain, the United States, Korea, and Israel. Steps undertaken by Canadian provinces have seemingly preferred in some cases ‘old regionalism' territorial reforms over 'new regionalism' horizontal networks of governance. Canadian experiences indicate that both weak metropolitan mechanisms and neighborhood-level governments tend to be unstable, often not fulfilling expectations. Moreover, it seems that only old regionalism deals effectively with sharing fiscal burdens, whereas new regionalism approaches can be effective in development. The cross-national case studies provide a perspective on the role of different political systems and political cultures in determining the metropolitan governance agenda and the reforms undertaken, revealing considerable similarities in the agenda and diversity in responses.