Power and place
Subtitle: Canadian urban development in the North American context
By: edited by Gilbert A. Stelter and Alan F.J. Artibise.
Contributors: Stelter, Gilbert Arthur, 1933-; Artibise, Alan F. J.; Canadian-American Urban Development Conference (1982 : University of Guelph)
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Vancouver
Language: eng
Number of pages: 398
Subjects: Cities and towns -- Canada -- History -- Congresses.; Community power -- Canada -- History -- Congresses.; City planning -- Canada -- History -- Congresses.; Municipal government -- Canada -- History -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Essays originating at the Canadian-American Urban Development Conference held at the University of Guelph in August 1982.
Table of contents: value: Power and the place in urban history / Gilbert A. Stelter; value: The impact of the public sector on the Canadian urban system / James W. Simmons; value: Private vs. public enterprise / Robert H. Babcock; value: Community leadership and decision-making / Elizabeth Bloomfield; value: American influences and local needs / Peter J. Smith; value: Land tenure and concepts of architecture and the city / Phyllis Lambert; value: The land development process in Edmonton, Alberta / John Gilpin; value: An entrepreneur in the Halifax building world / Susan Buggey; value: Suburban street railway strategies in Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver, 1896-1930 / Christopher Armstrong and H.V. Nelles; value: Single-sector communities in Northern Ontario / Oiva W. Saarinen; value: Urban autonomy in Canada / John H. Taylor; value: Metropolitan reform and the restructuring of local governments in the North American city / Philip Wichern; value: The politics of suburban growth / Michael P. McCarthy; value: Value differences and their meaning for urban development in Canada and the U.S. / John Mercer and Michael A. Goldberg.