Canadian Journal of Urban Research articles from December 2001

Canadian Journal of Urban Research archives from December 2001

Urban quality of life: An overview.
December 22, 2001... This volume of papers reflects a rediscovery of interest in the concepts of quality of life, social well-being, and social or sustainability indicators research. (1) Much of this heightened interest has been generated as a result of...

The contribution of social and experiential community structures to the intra-urban ecology of well-being.(Abstract)
December 22, 2001... Resume Cette etude fait enquete sur La contribution au bien-etre du a l'environnment social, la structure communautaire et a l'importance geographique de Lethbridge en Alberta. Une serie de 11 dimensions pour l'environnement social et de...

Uses and abuses of urban sustainability indicator studies.(Abstract)
December 22, 2001... Resume Les travaux relatifs a l'elaboration d'indicateurs de developpement durable se multiplient dans les municipalites au Canada et aux Etats-Unis. Cet article decoule d'entrevues aupres de chercheurs de premier plan dans trois villes...

Quality of life in Saskatoon: Achieving a healthy, sustainable community.(Abstract)
December 22, 2001... Resume Ce papier compare la qualite de vie (QDV) intra-urbaine de trois quartiers de Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. L'objectif de l'etude etait de determiner dans quelle mesure les caracteristiques des differents quartiers ou lieux influencent...

Economic competitiveness and quality of life in city regions: Compatible concepts?(Abstract)
December 22, 2001... Resume Cet article analyse les travaux de recherche qui portent sur la relation entre la competitivite economique et la qualite de vie dans les regions urbaines. En general, ces travaux de recherche refletent deux themes contradictoires:...

Blighted or booming? An evaluation of community indicators and their creation.(Abstract)
December 22, 2001... Resume Le nouveau mouvement d'indicateurs communautaires prospere en Amerique du Nord et donne lieu des rapports dont le but est de refleter les valeurs et les caracteristiques d'une communaute. Cependant, on remarque que les rapports...

What the people say: A study of quality of life in three towns in Jalisco, Mexico. (Research in Progress).(Abstract)
December 22, 2001... Resume Ce projet sur la qualite de vie (QDV) effectue en collaboration met l'accent sur la cueillette et l'analyse de donnees provenant d'un echantillon d'individus dans trois villes situees pres de Puerto Vallarta, dans la region de...

Domesticating the Street: the reform of public space in Hartford, 1850-1930. (Book Reviews).
December 22, 2001... Baldwin, Peter C. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1999. 362 pp. ISBN 0-8142-5026-2. US$50.00. This work on Hartford, Connecticut explains the transformation of city streets from chaotic, multipurpose social spaces...

Fin de Millenaire Budapest: Lessons from a post socialist city, Metamorphoses of Urban Life. (Book Reviews).
December 22, 2001... Bodnar, Judit. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001. 224 pp. ISBN: 0-8166-3584-6. $29.95 US (Cloth). Change as a constant force must be our signpost in all social investigations. It is in this spirit that this...

A Great Place to Raise Kids: Interpretation, Science, and the Urban-Rural Debate. (Book Reviews).
December 22, 2001... Bonner, Kieran. Montreal, Kingston, London, Buffalo: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997. 241 +xii pp. ISBN: 0-7735-1613-1. $44.95 (Cloth). The widely accepted aphorism that rural communities are a great place to raise...

Urban Policy Issues: Canadian Perspectives, 2nd edition.
December 22, 2001... Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 2002. (Book Reviews) Fowler, Edmund P. David Siegel 302 pp. ISBN: 0-19-54153-0. $28.95. This is an informative and very accessible introductory book on a variety of urban policy...

Housing, Social Policy and Difference: Disability, Ethnicity, Gender and Housing. (Book Reviews).
December 22, 2001... Harrison, Malcolm with Cathy Davis. Bristol: The Policy Press, 2000. 256 pp. ISBN: 1 86134 187 3. ISBN: 1 86134 305 1. $46.80 (Paperback). $117.00 (Hardback). The field of housing studies has received a good deal...

Economics of Cities, Theoretical Perspectives. (Book Reviews).
December 22, 2001... Huriot, Jean-Marie and Jacques- Francois Thisse, editors. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 452 pp. ISBN: 052164190X. $80.00 US. Economics of Cities is a valuable book for anyone seriously interested in the...

Safeguarding Our Common Future: Rethinking Sustainable Development. (Book Reviews).
December 22, 2001... Leman-Stefanovic, Ingrid. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000. 272 pp. ISBN: 0791446522. $22.95 US (Paper). This book serves to critique, refine, and revitalize the idea of sustainable development as advanced...

Globalization and Urban Change: Capital, Culture and Pacific Rim Mega-projects. (Book Reviews).
December 22, 2001... Olds, Kris. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. 328 + xvii pp. ISBN 0-19-823361-2. $119.50 (Hardcover). In a globalized world, 'urban mega-projects' (UMPs) are part and parcel of the various images used to...

The Social Sustainability of Cities: Diversity and the Management of Change. (Book Reviews).
December 22, 2001... Polese, Mario and Richard Stren, editors. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. 334 + x pp. ISBN: 0-8020-8320-X. $24.95. This collection is a worthy contribution to the literature on social sustainability. The book...

Hierarchical Organization in Society: A Canadian Perspective. (Book Reviews).
December 22, 2001... Pooler, James A. Aldershot England: Ashgate, 2000. 240 pp. ISBN: 0754613631. $69.95 US. Geographer James Pooler of the University of Saskatchewan believes that hierarchies have a significant impact on our institutions and...

Urbanism, Health and Human Biology in Industrialized Countries: Society for the Study of Human Biology Symposium Series, Vol. 40. (Book Reviews).
December 22, 2001... Schell, Lawrence and Stanley Ulijaszek, editors. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 340 pp. ISBN: 052 162097X. $70.95 US. Urbanism, Health and Human Biology in Industrial Countries describes, in a series of 15...

High Technology and Low Income Communities: Prospects for the Positive Use of Advanced Information Technology. (Book Reviews).
December 22, 2001... Schon, Donald A., Bish Sanyal and William J. Mitchell, editors. Cambridge, Mass. and London, UK: MIT Press, 1999. 4ll pp. ISBN 0-262-69199-x $27.95 US (paper). This book, a product of a colloquium series entitled "Advanced...

Transportation For Liveable Cities.
December 22, 2001... Rutgers N.J.: Center for urban policy research press, 1999. (Book Reviews) Vuchic, Vucan R. 377 pp. ISBN: 0882851616. $29.95 US. Vucan Vuchic is an expert in urban transportation systems, with an academic career spanning...

Combating Urban Inequalities: Challenges for Managing Cities in the Developing World. (Book Reviews).
December 22, 2001... Werna, Edmundo. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2000. 148+ ix pp. ISBN: 1-84064-347-1. $70.00 US (Hardcover). The basic thesis of this book is that with the forces of globalization there...