Title & Author:

The Changing Canadian metropolis : a public policy perspective / Frances Frisken, editor.

Publication:

Berkeley : Institute of Governmental Studies Press, University of California, Berkeley ; Toronto : Canadian Urban Institute, 1994.

Description:

2 volumes (xi, 847 pages) : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
V. 1. -- 1. population growth in Canadian metropolises, 1901-1986 / John U. Marshall -- 2. The effects of information technologies on large urban regions / Jerome Durlak -- 3. Possibilities for and limitations on environmental protection in the changing Canadian metropolis / Robert Paehlke -- 4. Gender and employment in service industries : a comparison of two cities / Valerie Preston and Sara McLafferty -- 5. Changing temporal perspectives and the Canadian metropolis / Andrew S. Harvey -- 6. The social complexity of Canadian metropolitan areas in 1986 : a multivariate analysis of census data / Wayne K. D. Davies and Robert A. Murdie -- 7. Ethnic segregation in a multicultural society : a review of recent trends in Montreal and Toronto and reconceptualization of casual factors / Fathali M. Moghaddam -- 8. The process of gentrification : lessons from an inner-city neighbourhood / Joanne M. Sabourin -- 9. Social polarisation and public housing in Canada : a case study of the Metropolitan Toronto Housing Authority / Robert A. Murdie -- 10. The suburbs, then and now / John Sewell -- 11. The federal government and the metropolitan housing problem / George Fallis -- 12. The state's response to homelessness : a view of three countries / Gerald Daly
13. Federal urban activity : intergovernmental relations in an age of restraint / Caroline Andrew -- 14. Urban sprawl in the Montreal area : policies and trends / Francois Charbonneau, Pierre Hamel, and Michel Barcelo -- 15. Provincial transit policymaking for the Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver regions / Frances Frisken -- 16. Metropolitan change and political disruption : the new left, the new right, and the postwar orthodoxy / Warren Magnusson -- 17. Recent developments in the theory of the state and the changing Canadian metropolis : implications of each for the other / Alan Smart -- 18. Party politics in the metropolis : Montreal 1960-1990 / Louise Quesnel -- 19. International cities and municipal paradiplomacy : a typology for assessing the changing Vancouver metropolis / Patrick J. Smith and Theodore H. Cohn -- 20. The urban economy and the power of the local state : the politics of planning in Edmonton and Vancouver / Christopher Leo -- 21. Social polarisation and community response : contesting marginality in Vancouver's downtown eastside / David Ley -- 22. The issue of local autonomy in Edmonton's regional plan process : metropolitan planning in a changing political climate / Peter J. Smith and Patricia Bayne -- 23. Industrial decentralization and the planned industrial park : a case study of metropolitan Halifax / Hugh Millward ad Shelley Dickey -- 24. Municipal government and residential land development : a comparative study of London, Ontario, in the 1920s and 1980s / Andrew Sancton and Byron Montgomery -- 25. Local taxation as an instrument of policy / David M. Nowlan.

Summary:

Students of Canadian urbanism have paid less attention to the influence of public policy on the development and character of urban places than they have to the influence of economic forces, technological change, geography, culture, and language. They also tend to treat large cities in isolation from the metropolitan areas with which their fates are intertwined. In this two-volume study, public policy and metropolitan areas are the principal matters of interest. Volume One looks at linkages between public policy and changes occurring within or impinging on Canada's system of metropolitan areas and its 25 individual components. It considers changes in the Canadian economy and in the forces that drive it, in the nature of work and workplaces, in the participation of women in the labour force, in the social composition of metropolitan populations, and in public attitudes to the environment. Volume Two deals with aspects of urban policymaking at the federal, provincial, municipal and (in some areas) metropolitan or regional levels of government. It shows that policies adopted by all levels of government can have important consequences for metropolitan area development and social character, even though the Canadian constitution clearly makes provincial governments responsible for municipal institutions and local services.

ISBN:

0877723443
9780877723448

Subject:

Urban policy Canada.
Metropolitan government Canada.
Politique urbaine Canada.
Agglomérations urbaines Administration Canada.
Metropolitan government
Urban policy
Canada

Added entries:

Frisken, Frances.

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 107442
Call No.: ID HT127.C48 CAN; ID:94-B2779
Status: Available