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Shaping the urban landscape : aspects of the Canadian city-building process /
This is a collection of essays focusing on the process of city-building in Canada. The authors weigh the relative broad social, economic and technological trends as they attempt to explain the shaping of this urban landscape.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ottawa, Canada : Don Mills, Ont. :
Carleton University Press ; Distributed by Oxford University Press,
1982.
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| Colección: | Carleton library series ;
125. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; I: INTRODUCTION; II: URBAN GROWTH STRATEGIES; III: EVOLVING URBAN FORM; Notes on Editors; Notes on Contributors; 1. The City Building Process in Canada; 2. Ideology and Political Economy in Urban Growth: Guelph, 1827-1927; 3. Montreal Banks and the Urban Development of Quebec, 1840-1914; 4. Staples and the New Industrialism in the Growth of Post-Confederation Halifax; 5. In Pursuit of Growth: Municipal Boosterism and Urban Development in the Canadian Prairie West, 1871-1913; 6. Physical Expansion and Socio-Cultural Segregation in Quebec City, 1765-1840
- 7. Speculation and the Physical Expansion of Mid-Nineteenth Century Hamilton8. The subdivision Process in Toronto, 1851-1883; 9. Building Halifax, 1841-1871; 10. Reshaping the Urban Landscape? Town Planning Efforts in Kitchener/Waterloo, 1912-1926; 11. The Development and Beautification of an Industrial City: Maisonneuve, 1883-1918; 12. From Land Assembly to Social Maturity: The Suburban Life of Westdale (Hamilton), Ontario, 1911-1951; 13. Politics, Space, and Trolleys: Mass Transit in Early Twentieth-Century Toronto; 14. ""C.P.R. Town"": The City-Building Process in Vancouver, 1860-1914