Canadian Journal of Urban Research articles from January 2006

Canadian Journal of Urban Research archives from January 2006

The ironies of new urbanism.(Report)
January 1, 2006... Abstract New urbanism principles increasingly influence planning practice and policy in several countries. This review suggests that experience with new urbanism projects has begun to expose some contradictions between theory and practice....

House prices in a heritage area: the case of St. John's, Newfoundland.(Report)
January 1, 2006... Abstract Does the designation of a heritage conservation area have a significant effect on house values? Previous studies, almost all based on American data, do not provide a simple answer to the question. Using data on the sales prices of...

Does compatible mean same as?: lessons learned from the residential intensification of surplus hydro lands in four older suburban neighbourhoods in the City of Toronto.(Case study)
January 1, 2006... Abstract We now have increasing opportunity to make inner suburbs more sustainable through intensification initiatives such as infill. This paper investigates NIMBY, the major obstacle that besets intensification in the inner suburbs. It...

Agir contre la pauvrete dans une ville de taille moyenne : les representations des intervenants locaux (1).(Report)
January 1, 2006... Abstract This article presents some of the data gathered during the research phase or a local roundtable on poverty. Informants were asked about their vision of the causes of poverty and of the ways to eliminate it. Causes were seen as...

The NIMBY syndrome and the health of communities.(Not In My Backyard)(Report)
January 1, 2006... Abstract The aim of this paper is to extract from the current literature a set of NIMBY syndrome approaches. It gives a positive account of NIMBY and develops a synthetic conceptual framework combining different readings of the NIMBY...

Why do municipal electors not vote?(Report)
January 1, 2006... Abstract Voter turnout in Canada has declined in the last several decades and is now among the lowest in the western world. In this paper, we examine, through telephone surveys, the reasons why electors did not exercise their right to vote...

Characteristics of university student housing and implications for urban development in mid-sized cities.(Report)
January 1, 2006... Abstract Despite the visible imprint of student housing on urban landscapes, little has been written about the nature of student housing. The current study examines the nature of student rental housing in a mid-sized Canadian city from a...

Bridgman, Rae: Street Cities: Rehousing the Homeless.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Bridgman, Rae Street Cities: Rehousing the Homeless Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2006. 219 pp. ISBN: 1-55111-533-6 StreetCities describes the evolution of two alternative supportive housing projects for chronically homeless men...

Cowan, Robert: The Dictionary of Urbanism.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Cowan, Robert The Dictionary of Urbanism Streetwise Press, 2005. 500 pp. ISBN: 0-9544330-0-9 This unique and amazing dictionary embraces urban terms, historical and contemporary personalities, geographical accounts, and more. Writing in a...

Gillette, Howard Jr.: Camden After the Fall: Decline and Renewal in a Post-Industrial City.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Gillette, Howard Jr. Camden After the Fall: Decline and Renewal in a Post-Industrial City University of Pennsylvania, 2005. 323 pp. ISBN: 0812219686 Howard Gillette Jr. offers us an often fascinating account of how city and state...

Kuban, Ron: Edmonton's Urban Villages: The Community League Movement.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Kuban, Ron Edmonton's Urban Villages: The Community League Movement Edmonton: The University of Alberta Press, 2005. 249, xxi, appendices, index. ISBN: 0-88864-438-8 pbk Edmonton's community league movement has been a remarkable, 87-year,...

Miles, Malcolm and Tim Hall, Eds.: Interventions: Advances in Art and Urban Futures.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Miles, Malcolm and Tim Hall, Eds. Interventions: Advances in Art and Urban Futures, Vol. 4 Intellect: Bristol England and Portland Oregon, 2005. 180 pp. ISBN: 1-84150-118-2 Interventions gathers an internationally diverse group of artists...

Parker, Simon: Urban Theory and the Urban Experience: Encountering the City.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Parker, Simon Urban Theory and the Urban Experience: Encountering the City London and New York: Routledge, 2004. 210 pp. ISBN: 0-415-24592-3 pbk In this book, Simon Parker, (Lecturer in Politics at the University of York [U.K.]), intends...

Porter, David and Chester Mirsky: Megamall on the Hudson: Planning, Wal-Mart and Grassroots Resistance.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Porter, David and Chester Mirsky Megamall on the Hudson: Planning, Wal-Mart and Grassroots Resistance Vancouver: Trafford Publishing, 2002. 521 pp. ISBN: 1-55369-855-X Megamall on the Hudson chronicles the struggle of a small group of...

Stiftel, Bruce and Vanessa Watson (Eds): Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning 1.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Stiftel, Bruce and Vanessa Watson (Eds) Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning 1 London: Routledge, 2005. 355 pp. ISBN: 0-415-34693-2 Planning journals that enjoy an international status mostly carry studies originating from a select...

Whybrow, Nicholas: Street Scenes: Brecht, Benjamin and Berlin.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Whybrow, Nicholas Street Scenes: Brecht, Benjamin and Berlin Bristol: Intellect Books, 2004. 239 pp. ISBN: 1-84150-114-X In Street Scenes: Brecht, Benjamin and Berlin, Nicolas Whybrow presents his readers with a recollection of the city of...

Books received.
January 1, 2006... This listing includes all books received for review since the last issue of CJUR. If you are interested in reviewing one of these publications for CJUR or would like to suggest a publication for review, please contact the Book Review Editor,...