Urban policy issues
Subtitle: Canadian perspectives
By: edited by Edmund P. Fowler and David Siegel.
Contributors: Fowler, Edmund P., 1942-; Siegel, David
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
Subjects: Urban policy -- Canada.; Politique urbaine -- Canada.
Description: "This collection examines how Canadian municipal governments have responded to some of the most fundamental changes to the municipal system since its origins in the nineteenth century. It focuses on issues of housing, transportation, and public health, charting current changes such as the growth in size and scope of municipalities and pointing to an increase in power of municipal governments.

While it is unlikely that provincial governments will ever formally accede any direct policy making powers to the municipalities, the editors conclude that these changes mean the local governments will gradually obtain a de facto status as real policy-making bodies."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
First edition edited by: Richard A. Loreto, Trevor Price.
Table of contents: title: Introduction,; title: Urban public policy at the turn of the century -- Edmund P. Fowler and David Siegel; title: Urban demographics in Canada -- David K. Foot; title: Urban finance at the turn of the century : be careful what you wish for -- David Siegel; title: Metropolitan and regional governance -- Andrew Sancton; title: Housing policy in the new millennium : the uncompassionate landscape -- Barbara Wake Carroll; title: Municipal social security in Canada -- Rodney Haddow; title: Transportation policy in Canadian cities -- Edmund P. Fowler and Jack Layton; title: Sustainable cities -- Trevor Price; title: City environmental policy : connecting the dots -- Edmund P. Fowler and Franz Hartmann; title: Public policy on recreation and leisure in urban Canada -- Bryan J.A. Smale and Donald G. Reid; title: Culture, heritage, and the arts -- Donna Cardinal; title: Urban development : planning aspirations and political realities -- Christopher Leo; title: Infrastructure -- Caroline Andrew and Jeff Morrison; title: From public health to the healthy city -- Trevor Hancock; title: Education policies : challenges and controversies -- Peter Woolstencroft.