Canadian Journal of Urban Research articles from December 2007

Canadian Journal of Urban Research archives from December 2007

Placing social policy? Reflections on Canada's New Deal for Cities and Communities.(Report)
December 22, 2007... Abstract This article analyses the New Deal for Cities and Communities pursued by the federal Liberal government between 2004 and 2006. Situating the initiative in broader urban policy debates about the merits of place-based interventions...

Density, size, dispersion: towards understanding the structural dynamics of mid-size cities.(Survey)
December 22, 2007... Abstract This paper draws on a variety of evidence--distance-decay density gradients; case study of one particular mid-size metropolitan area, Kitchener, Ontario; assessment of mid-size city core areas North America-wide by planners and...

Local urban form measures related to land-use and development period: a case-study for Halifax, Nova Scotia.(Case study)
December 22, 2007... Abstract This case-study employs micro-level measures of urban morphology to examine changing patterns and densities of development in the urban and suburban portions of metropolitan Halifax. It focuses on relationships between land use...

Saint-Laurent: transformations urbaines d'une ville de banlieue Quels changements dans la relation centre/peripherie?(Report)
December 22, 2007... Abstract Contemporary suburbia attracts activities especially those of the high technology sector. In addition, it remains the place where most North Americans prefer to live. This trend often means that, conversely, central cities tend to...

Les trajectoires residentielles des nouveaux immigrants a Montreal: une analyse longitudinale et conjoncturelle.(residential trajectories of new immigrants in Montreal in the 1990s)
December 22, 2007... Abstract Using the data from the longitudinal study "L'etablissement des nouveaux immigrants (ENI)," this paper analyses the residential trajectories of new immigrants in Montreal during the 1990's. Two methodologies were applied. First,...

Linking social exclusion and health: explorations in contrasting neighbourhoods in Hamilton, Ontario.(Report)
December 22, 2007... Abstract While a substantial body of literature in the UK focuses on social exclusion, attention to this complex relationship is gaining some momentum in the Canadian context. "[his paper contributes to this growing area of research by...

Finance, insurance and real estate firms and the nature of agglomeration advantage across Canada and within metropolitan Toronto.
December 22, 2007... Abstract This study compares the spatial patterns of finance, insurance and real estate firm concentration at inter-urban (for urban areas across Canada) and intra-urban (for the Toronto census metropolitan area) scales and attempts to...

Beauregard, Robert A.: When America Became Suburban.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Beauregard, Robert A. When America Became Suburban. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2006. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-8166-4885-9 "... they lived well. They also turned away... This loss of urbanity was the burden...

Edwards, Justin D. and Douglas Ivison, Eds.: Downtown Canada: Writing Canadian Cities.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Edwards, Justin D. and Douglas Ivison, Eds. Downtown Canada: Writing Canadian Cities. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. 227 pp. ISBN: 0-8020-8668-3 Downtown Canada gathers essays from established and emerging...

Fainstein, Susan S. and Lisa J. Servon, Eds.: Gender and Planning: A Reader.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Fainstein, Susan S. and Lisa J. Servon, Eds. Gender and Planning: A Reader. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey, 2005. ISBN: 0-8135-3499-2 Having witnessed an apparent decline in publications on women, gender...

Gurstein, Penny & Leonora Angeles, Eds.: Learning Civil Societies: Shifting Contexts for Democratic Planning and Governance.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Gurstein, Penny & Leonora Angeles, Eds. Learning Civil Societies: Shifting Contexts for Democratic Planning and Governance. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-8020-9119-9 Civil society is a "work...

Haydn, Florian and Robert Temel, Eds.: Temporary Urban Spaces: Concepts for the Use of City Spaces.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Haydn, Florian and Robert Temel, Eds. Temporary Urban Spaces: Concepts for the Use of City Spaces. Berlin: Birkhauser, 2006. 272 pp. ISBN: 3-7643-7460-8 Henri Lefebvre argued that for ideas to have meaning they must have...

Lorinc, John: The New City: How the Crisis in Canada's Urban Centres is Reshaping the Nation.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Lorinc, John The New City: How the Crisis in Canada's Urban Centres is Reshaping the Nation Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2006. 378 pp. ISBN: 0143056042 It is gratifying to those of us interested in urban studies to note the...

Teelucksingh, Cheryl, Ed.: Claiming Space: Racialization in Canadian Cities.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Teelucksingh, Cheryl, Ed. Claiming Space: Racialization in Canadian Cities. Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006. 202 pp. ISBN: 0-88920-499-3 Despite what its title suggests, this book is not a systematic...