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Shaping the urban landscape : aspects of the Canadian city-building process
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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 shap...
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.
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- Creator
- editors, Gilbert A. Stelter, Alan F.J. Artibise
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- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Ottawa, Canada : Carleton University Press ; Don Mills, Ont. : Distributed by Oxford University Press, 1982
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- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (436 pages) : illustrations
- ISBNs
- 1283531526, 9786613843975, 0773584862, 0886290023
- OCLC
- ocn767669341, ocn923236329
- Includes bibliographical references.
- English
- 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 Hamilton 8. 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; 15. Canadian Resource Towns in Historical Perspective