Canadian Journal of Urban Research articles from June 2003

Canadian Journal of Urban Research archives from June 2003

Montreal, depictions of a mid-size metropolis.
June 22, 2003... The current period seems to be a good time for overviews of the Montreal urban area and for predictions about its future. Indeed, as Germain and Rose pointed out in their recent portrait of urban issues in Montreal (2000), the city and the...

Montreal, tableaux d'une metropole moyenne.
June 22, 2003... La periode actuelle semble propice aux bilans d'ensemble (et a la prospective) sur Montreal. En effet, ainsi que l'ont fait valoir Germain et Rose dans une synthese recente des enjeux urbains a Montreal (2000), la ville et l'agglomeoration...

From city to city-region: historical perspective on the contentious definitions of the Montreal metropolitan area (1).
June 22, 2003... Resume Cet article vise a dresser l'etat des lieux en ce qui a trait aux approches pour comprendre le developpement des villes dans leur environnement regional immediat. Prenant appui sur le cas de Montreal, notre objectif est d'alimenter...

Montreal, L'ile laboratoire les politiques Publiques a l'epreuve du bien commun urbain.
June 22, 2003... Abstract In Montreal, the recent provincial law on the reorganization of municipal authorities has given rise to a new administration which brings together at the level of the island (and not of the metropolis) around thirty authorities...

The institutionalization of Montreal's CDECS: from grassroots organizations to State apparatus?
June 22, 2003... Resume Durant les annees 1980, les acteurs communautaires et les mouvements urbains ont fait la promotion du developpement economique local a Montreal, en soulignant l'importance d'y inclure des preoccupations sociales et celle d'ameliorer...

Cohabiter dans le sous-sol de Montreal: la commission des services electriques et les entreprises de service public.
June 22, 2003... Abstract For the deployment of its underground technical networks, Montreal has a unique institution: la Commission des services electriques de Montreal (CSEM). The Commission has the responsibility to conceive, build, maintain and manage...

Tourism-based redevelopment and the fiscal crisis of the city: the case of Montreal.
June 22, 2003... Resume Dans les villes nord-americaines, le tourisme devient de plus en plus la pierre angulaire des strategies de developpement economique. Cependant, nous manquons de recherches systematiques sur la fiscalite du tourisme urbain. Depuis...

Citadins et banlieusards. Representations, pratiques et identites *.
June 22, 2003... Abstract In Quebec, the tensions between the central city (or downtown) and the suburbs were recently made manifest--indeed, crystallised--in the debates surrounding the municipal amalgamations that took place in January 2002. Space has...

Bailly, Jean-Paul et Edith Heurgon. Nouveaux rythmes urbains : quels transports?(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Paris : Editions de l'Aube, 2001 ISBN 2876786516 221 p. $15.10 EUR (pbk) La mobilite est d'abord un rapport au territoire, a l'espace ; mais elle s'inscrit egalement dans le temps. C'est la le point de depart du livre prepare pour le...

Bonnet, Michel et Dominique Desjeux (direction) Les territoires de la mobilite.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Paris : Presses universitaires de France, 2000 224 p. ISBN 2130506445 $18.29 EUR Cet ouvrage, dirige par Michel Bonnet et Dominique Desjeux, est une publication du Plan urbanisme construction architecture qui rend compte d'un seminaire qui...

Brebbia, C. A., D. Almorza and H. Klapperich (ed.). Brownfield Sites: Assessment, Rehabilitation & Development.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Southampton: WIT Press, 2002. ISBN 1-85312-918-6 548 p. $ 277.00 US Brownfields, as the legacy of a century of industrialization, are the abandoned, idle or underutilized commercial or industrial properties where past actions have caused...

Green, Gary Paul and Anna Haines Asset Building and Community Development.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2002. 251 pp. 0-7619-2263-6 (pbk) $48.95 US There are two important claires made in the preface of this book. The first is that while it is not a "cookbook" for community development, the book is intended as a resource...

Grinberg, Edward Mobilite restreinte, mobilite etendue.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Paris: L'Harmattan, 2001. ISBN 2747516938 139p. $12.20 EUR (pbk.) Le livre d'Edward Grinberg reste inclassable. Malgre le titre, ce n'est pas vraiment un livre sur la mobilite, du moins pas dans le sens classique du terme. Il s'agit...

Hall, Jr., Kenneth B. & Gerald Porterfield Community by Design: New Urbanism for Suburbs and Small Communities.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... New York: McGraw Hill, 2001. 296 pp.ISBN 0-07-134623-X $49.95 US Books that rail against the blandness, sterility and inhurnan scale of postwar urban America are by now plentiful, and the design movement meant to address these ills, The New...

Legault, Guy R. Cette ville que l'on a batie (Trente ans au service de l'urbanisme et de l'habitation de Montreal, 1956-1986).(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Legault, Guy R. Cette ville que l'on a batie (Trente ans au service de l'urbanisme et de l'habitation de Montreal, 1956-1986). Montreal: Liber, 2002. 264 p. ISBN 2-89578-018-8 $25.00 CAD Beaudet, Gerard. Le pays reel sacrifie (La mise en...

Rousseau, Louis et Frank W. Remiggi, dir. Atlas historique des pratiques religieuses: le Sud-Ouest du Quebec au XlXe siecle.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Rousseau, Louis et Frank W. Remiggi, dir. Atlas historique des pratiques religieuses: le Sud-Ouest du Quebec au XlXe siecle. Ottawa: Presses de l'Universite d'Ottawa, 1998. 235 p. ISBN 2-7603-0452-3 $65.00 CAD Courville, Serge et Normand...

Schonwalder, Gerd Linking Civil Society and the State: Urban Popular Movements, the Left and Local Government in Peru 1980-1992.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Schonwalder, Gerd Linking Civil Society and the State: Urban Popular Movements, the Left and Local Government in Peru 1980-1992 University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002. 243 pp. 0-271-02180-2 $50.00 US In countries...

Scott, Allen J. (ed) Global City-Regions: Trends, Theory, Policy.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Scott, Allen J. (ed) Global City-Regions: Trends, Theory, Policy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. 467 p. ISBN: 0-19-925230-0 $29.95 US (pbk.) This impressive compilation is an edited collection of papers presented to an...

Toussaint, Jean-Yves et Monique Zimmermann (sous la direction de), User, observer, programmer et fabriquer l'espace public.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Toussaint, Jean-Yves et Monique Zimmermann (sous la direction de), User, observer, programmer et fabriquer l'espace public. Lausanne: Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes, 2001. 304 p. ISBN 2-88074-471-7 $45.95 EUR Bassand,...

Van Bastelaer, Beatrice; Henin, Laurent et Lobet-Maris, Claire. Villes virtuelles. Entre Communaute et Cite. Analyse de cas.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Paris: l'Harmattan, 2000. 255 p. ISBN 2-7384-9293-2 $19.82 EUR (pbk.) Les villes virtuelles, concept flou aux definitions parfois contradictoires, peuvent etre percues comme une evolution des experiences des radios libres et des...

Books received.
June 22, 2003... 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,...

A message from the Institute of Urban Studies.
June 22, 2003... For more than 30 years, the Institute of Urban Studies at the University of Winnipeg (IUS) has been active in a wide range of social science research in the urban environment. Along the way, we have forged many partnerships. Between 1989 and...

From the president of CIP David Palubeski, MCIP.
June 22, 2003... The foundation for this journal began two years ago with the restructuring of the CIP National Council. Council sought to create a newly invigorated CIP, and to redefine it as an organization that could engage its members in charting the course...

Message from ACUPP-APUCU.
June 22, 2003... The Association of Canadian University Planning Programs / Association des programmes universitaires canadiens en urbanisme is very pleased to have been one of the 'midwives' for the launch of this scholarly publication on planning in Canada....

Perspectives on a Canadian urban strategy: an overview.(Editorial)
June 22, 2003... This inaugural issue of Canadian Planning and Policy represents a contribution to the urgent task of formulating a national urban strategy in Canada. It embraces a breadth of approaches to urban issues and illustrates the work of different...

A national urban policy for Canada? Prospects and challenges.
June 22, 2003... Resume Cet article passe en revue les publications de 2002 du Groupe de travail du Premier ministre sur les questions urbaines. Il esquisse le role actuel du gouvernement federal en politique urbaine, decrit les tentatives precedentes de...

New fault lines? Recent trends in the Canadian urban system and their implications for planning and public policy.
June 22, 2003... Dans le contexte du debat actuel sur la politique urbaine, le present article examine certaines tendances du systeme urbain canadien et documente les impacts de ces tendances sur la planification et la politique urbaine. Bien que les urbanistes...

Towards smart growth? The difficult implementation of alternatives to urban dispersion.
June 22, 2003... Resume Au cours des dernieres annees, le concept de la croissance intelligente (smart growth) a pris une place grandissante au sein des documents ayant trait a l'amenagement urbain. Ce concept reflete une forte insatisfaction a l'endroit...

The rhetoric of contemporary urbanism: a deconstructive analysis of Central City neighbourhood redevolopment.
June 22, 2003... Resume Prenant appui sur l'exemple du quartier Saint-Roch a Quebec, l'article analyse la rhetorique du discours urbanistique qui depuis une decennie environ justifie et programme la revitalisation des quartiers anciens en Amerique du Nord....

Engaging the urban Aboriginal population in low-cost housing initiatives: lessons from Winnipeg.
June 22, 2003... Resume L'accroissement de la population autochtone dans les villes canadiennes presente des occasions d'ameliorer le developpement economique et culturel des centres urbains au Canada. Il y a beaucoup de problemes auquels font face les...

Developing a planning strategy and vision for rural-urban fringe areas: a case study of British Columbia.
June 22, 2003... Resume La zone peripherique urbaine-rurale pose de nombreaux defies juridiques et politiques en ce qui concerne sa planification et gestion adequate. L'analyse se concentre sur le taux de croissance, le genre et l'emplacement des zones...

Development charges and city planning objectives: the Ontario disconnect.
June 22, 2003... Resume Dans de nombreuses provinces au Canada, des redevances de developpement sont prelevees par les gouvernements municipaux afin de contribuer aux couts d'infrastructure associee a la croissance urbaine. Neanmoins, il n'y a pratiquement...