Canadian urban regions
Subtitle: trajectories of growth and change
By: edited by Larry S. Bourne ... [et al.].
Publisher: OUP Canada
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780195433821
Subjects: Growth; Sociologie urbaine; Villes; Urban Sociology; Cities and towns; Croissance
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Dynamics of change in the Canadian urban system.; title: Introduction and overview :; title: growth and change in Canadian cities  -- Larry S. Bourne ... [et al.] ;; title: Candian cities in a global context  -- Mario Polèse and Jim Simmons ;; title: Growth and change in the Canadian urban system  -- Larry S. Bourne ... [et al.] ;; title: Political economy, governance, and urban policy in Canada  -- Jim Simmons ... [et al.] ;; title: Canada's changing city-regions :; title: the expanding metropolis  -- Richard Shearmar and Tom Hutton ;; title: Economic restructuring and trajectories of socio-spatial polarization in the twenty-first-century Canadian city  -- R. Alan Walks; title: The case studies :; title: Canada's power metropolises.; title: Case studies overview :; title: a profile of Canada's major metropolitan areas  -- Jim Simmons and Larry S. Bourne ;; title: Montreal :; title: rising again from the same ashes  -- Richard Shearmur and Norma Rantisi ;; title: Ottawa-Gatineau :; title: capital formation  -- Caroline Andrew, Brian Ray, and Guy Chiasson ;; title: The Greater Toronto region :; title: the challenges of economic restructuring, social diversity, and globalization  -- Larry S. Bourne, John N.H. Britton, and Deborah Leslie ;; title: "Heart of the new West" :; title: oil and gas, rapid growth, and consequences in Calgary  -- Byron Miller and Alan Smart ;; title: Vancouver :; title: restructuring narratives in the transnational metropolis  -- Trevor Barnes ... [et al.]; title: Perspectives on theory, policy, and practice.; title: Perspectives on theory, policy, and the future urban economy -- Tom Hutton ... [et al.].