Canadian Journal of Urban Research articles from June 2000

Canadian Journal of Urban Research archives from June 2000

Regulatory hurdles to conserving heritage property in Toronto.
June 1, 2000... Resume Cet article analyse diverses reglementations et politiques concernant le patrimoine dans le contexte des processus habituels d'emission des permis de construction. L'etude de plusieurs cas torontois, allant de l'emission d'un permis...

Sheltering refugees: the housing experience of refugees in Metropolitan Vancouver, Canada.
June 1, 2000... Resume La recherche sur l'habitation des immigrants, en depit de quelques progres dans la comprehension de cette importante dimension d'un multiculturalisme equitable, demeure tres jeune et ne permet pas encore d'apprehender les veritables...

Restructuring and employment insecurities: the case of building cleaners.
June 1, 2000... Resume Cette etude dresse le portrait de l'industrie de l'entretien menager a Toronto, notamment des changements dans la composition ethnique de sa main d'oeuvre. L'auteur s'interesse a l'impact de ses changements sur la position que les...

British Columbia's Growth Strategies Act: a policy critique.
June 1, 2000... Resume L'adoption recente, en Colombie Britannique, de la Loi sur les strategies de croissance (Growth Strategies Act) constitue une etape majeure dans l'etablissement de principes de planification a l'echelle de la province, tout en...

Unmasking administrative evil.
June 1, 2000... Adams, Guy B. and Danny L. Balfour. Unmasking Administrative Evil. Thousand Oaks/London/New Delhi: Sage Publications, Inc., 1998. 207 + xxiv pp. ISBN: 0-7619-0669-X (PB). $24.95 U.S. Administrative evil is largely ignored in public...

Battered women, children and welfare reform: the ties that bind.
June 1, 2000... Brandwein, Ruth A., ed. Battered Women, Children, and Welfare Reform: The Ties That Bind. Sage Series on Violence Against Women Thousand Oaks/London/New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1999. 185 + xx pp. ISBN: 0-7619-1149-9 (PB). $29.95 U.S. ...

Recreation and tourism as a catalyst for urban waterfront redevelopment: an international survey.
June 1, 2000... Craig-Smit, Stephen J. and Michael Fagence, eds. Recreation and Tourism as a Catalyst for Urban Waterfront Redevelopment: An International Survey. Westport, CT and London: Praeger Publishers, 1995. 192 + x pp. ISBN: 0-275-94550-2. $55.00...

Tales of the city: a study of narrative and urban life.
June 1, 2000... Finnegan, Ruth. Tales of the City: A Study of Narrative and Urban Life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 212 pp. + 14 fig. ISBN: 0-521-62334-0 (Cloth). ISBN: 0-521-62623-4 (PB). $59.95 U.S. (Cloth)/$22.95 U.S. (PB). We...

Community organizing: building social capital as a development strategy.
June 1, 2000... Gittell, Ross and Avis Vidal. Community Organizing. Building Social Capital as a Development Strategy. Thousand Oaks/London/New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1998. 196 + x pp. ISBN: 0-8039-5792-0 (PB). $23.95 U.S. At the outset I must...

Workforce development networks: community-based organizations and regional alliances.
June 1, 2000... Harrison, Bennett and Marcus Weiss. Workforce Development Networks: Community-Based Organizations and Regional Alliances. Thousand Oaks/London/New Delhi: Sage Publications, Inc., 1998. 190 + x pp. ISBN: 0-7619-0848-X (PB). $24.95 U.S. ...

Urbanization of injustice.
June 1, 2000... Merrifield, Andy and Erik Swyngedouw, eds. The Urbanization of Injustice. New York: New York University Press, 1997. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-8147-5575-5 (Cloth). ISBN: 0-8147-5576 (PB). $50.00 U.S. (Cloth)/$17.50 U.S. (PB). Certainly, to have...

Space, culture and power: new identities in globalizing cities.
June 1, 2000... Oncu, Ayse and Petra Weyland, eds. Space, Culture and Power: New Identities in Globalizing Cities. London/New Jersey: Zed Books Ltd., 1997. 208 + viii pp. ISBN: 1-85649-504-3 (PB). This book has a different take on globalization. As...

Situationist city.
June 1, 2000... Sadler, Simon. The Situationist City. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1998. 233 + ix pp. ISBN: 0-262-19392-2. $35.00 U.S. This attractive, square, hardcover book brings to North-American readers an episode in the history of modern...

Race, class, women and the state: the case of domestic labour.
June 1, 2000... Schecter, Tanya. Race, Class, Women and the State: The Case of Domestic Labour. Montreal/New York/London: Black Rose Books, 1998. 185 + vi pp. ISBN: 1-55164-108-9. $24.95 U.S. Schecter sets out to shed new analytical light on the now...

Cultivated wilderness: or, what is landscape?
June 1, 2000... Shepheard, Paul. The Cultivated Wilderness: Or, What Is Landscape? MIT Press Series in Contemporary Architectural Discourse. Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press, 1997. 233 + xv pp. ISBN: 0-262-69194-9 (PB). $12.50 U.S. If municipal...

City in Roman Palestine.
June 1, 2000... Sperber, Daniel. The City in Roman Palestine. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. 200 + x pp. ISBN: 0-19-509882-X (Cloth). $72.00 U.S. Sperber's The City in Roman Palestine is a welcome--if prohibitively expensive--addition...

New directions in urban public housing.
June 1, 2000... Varady, David P., Wolfgang F.E. Preiser and Francis P. Russell, eds. New Directions in Urban Public Housing. Rutgers: State University of New Jersey, Centre for Urban Policy Research, 1998. 287 + xviii pp. ISBN: 0-88285-160-8. $19.95 U.S....

Places and people: multilevel modelling in geographical research.
June 1, 2000... Westet, G.P. and R.N. Verhoeff, eds. Places and People: Multilevel Modelling in Geographical Research. Utrecht: Urban Research Centre Utrecht URU, 1997. 128 pp. ISBN: 90-6809-247-2. Places and People: Multilevel Modelling in...