Titre et auteur:

Urban Canada : sociological perspectives / edited by Harry H. Hiller.

Publication:

Don Mills, Ont. ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Description:

350 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Urbanization and the city / Harry H. Hiller -- Canadian urbanization in historical and global perspective / Harry H. Hiller -- The dynamics of Canadian urbanization / Harry H. Hiller -- Analyzing and interpreting the city : theory and method / John Hannigan -- Rural and urban : differences and common ground / Bill Reimer -- Social ties and community in urban places / Keith N. Hampton -- Immigration and the city / Eric Fong -- Urban aboriginal people / J. Rick Ponting -- Urban inequality : poverty in Canadian cities / Tracy Peressini -- Cities and social pathology / A.R. Gillis -- Gender and the city : urban restructuring, social exclusion, and gender claims / Gerda R. Wekerle -- The new urban political economy / John Hannigan -- The city as a social organization / William Michelson -- Adapting to change : issues in the evolution and restructuring of Quebec cities / Louis Guay and Pierre Hamel -- Toronto : the form of the city / Jon Caulfield.

Résumé:

"The 13 contributors to Urban Canada: Sociological Perspectives explore a broad range of topics in Canadian urban sociology, historical and contemporary. Each chapter begins with an introduction by the editor, placing its subject in a broader context, and concludes with a glossary, study questions, suggested readings, and an extensive bibliography."--Jacket.

Ressources:
Publisher description
Publisher description

ISBN:

0195419359 (paperback)
9780195419351 (paperback)

Sujet:

Sociology, Urban Canada Textbooks.
Urbanization Canada Textbooks.
Sociologie urbaine Canada Manuels.
Urbanisation Canada Manuels.
Sociology, Urban.
Urbanization.
Sociologie urbaine.
Urbanisation.
Vie urbaine.
Canada.

Classification/genre:

Statistics.
Textbooks.

Vedettes secondaires:

Hiller, Harry H., 1942-

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main canada 256034
Cote: HT127 .U73 2005
Statut: Disponible