UID:
almafu_9959239038502883
Format:
1 online resource (x, 347 pages) :
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Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-282-00294-5
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9786612002946
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1-4426-7298-6
Content:
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 populations. The fifteen essays presented here reflect the current preoccupations and perspectives of critically oriented urban researchers in Canada. The essays in Part 1, 'People, Places, Cultures,' examine the nature of urban space and the links between this space and social relations, illustrating the fundamental principle that urban spaces are 'built values' and 'built politics' - physical expressions of social process. Part 2, 'The Economy of Cities,' explores recent fundamental shifts in the economic character of Canadian cities, whose effect on the social and physical landscapes has been as dramatic as the explosive onset of industrialism was in the last century. Part 3, 'Urban Social Movements,' focuses on the practices of social movements, including those oriented to gender, race, and the environment.Consisting largely of applied case studies, rather than broad thematic essays, City Lives and City Forms presents an overall argument for focused critical research in the urban field and suggests possible directions for the future.
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Description based upon print version of record.
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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.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8020-6950-9
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8020-0514-4
Language:
English
DOI:
10.3138/9781442672987
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