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City Lives and City Forms : Critical Research and Canadian Urbanism /

Focusing on a series of pivotal issues confronting Canadian cities and city-dwellers today, this volume address key themes in urban studies:the interaction between social relations and urban landscape, the status of the city in the new world economy, and the sociocultural complexity of urban populat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Peake, Linda, 1956- (Editor ), Caulfield, Jon (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, 1996.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Jon Caulfield
  • pt. 1. People, Places, Cultures. 1. The New Middle Class in Canadian Central Cities / David Ley. 2. Monster Homes: Hong Kong Immigration to Canada, Urban Conflicts, and Contested Representations of Space / Alan Smart and Josephine Smart. 3. 'Urban' and 'Aboriginal': An Impossible Contradiction? / Evelyn Peters. 4. Excavating Toronto's Underground Streets: In Search of Equitable Rights, Rules, and Revenue / Jeffrey Hopkins. 5. Feel Good Here? Relationships between Bodies and Urban Environments / Rob Shields. 6. Metropolis Unbound: Legislators and Interpreters of Urban Form / Engin F. Isin
  • pt. 2. The Economy of Cities. 7. Economic Restructuring and the Diversification of Gentrification in the 1980s: A View from a Marginal Metropolis / Damaris Rose. 8. Restructuring the Local State: Economic Development and Local Public Enterprise in Toronto / Graham Todd.