Canadian Journal of Urban Research articles from June 2005

Canadian Journal of Urban Research archives from June 2005

Tackling the challenges of inner city marginalization: a partnership approach.
June 22, 2005... Winnipeg's inner city has the dubious reputation of being one of the worst areas of poverty, poor quality housing, and marginalized populations in Canada. Through an extensive research, education, training, and development program, the Winnipeg...

Social investment in the inner city: community and capital in West Broadway, Winnipeg (1).
June 22, 2005... Abstract Substantial efforts in housing and community development have been focussed onto the West Broadway neighbourhood of inner city Winnipeg in order to stem processes of decline. This paper focuses on the effects of housing work in...

Building community capacity with non-profit boards in the inner city.
June 22, 2005... Abstract This article presents an adult education approach to community development with board members of non-profit childcare facilities, family resource and women's centres. Community organizations are important vehicles for development...

Voices from the margins: understanding street youth in Winnipeg.
June 22, 2005... Abstract This paper aims to inform the development of services and policies to address youth homelessness. This research addressed the following questions: (1) How youth became involved with the street? (2) What their lives were like on...

Challenges faced by aboriginal youth in the inner city.
June 22, 2005... Abstract Aboriginal youth in Winnipeg's inner city experience poverty, unemployment, as well as the effects of colonization, racism, and alienation. To meet their families' economic needs, many have been pushed into activities that place...

Factors affecting inner-city boys' reading: are male teachers the answer?
June 22, 2005... Abstract Eighteen inner-city first and second grade boys participated in a pilot study on the effect of sex of reading teacher on boys' attitudes toward and performance in reading. Each boy participated with either male or female research...

Investigating the impact of a career education program on school engagement.
June 22, 2005... Abstract The Career Trek program is designed to instil some protective factors that develop positive self-esteem in participants and promote school engagement. In addition, the program tries to challenge the general motivational decline...

Two-tier banking: the rise of fringe banks in Winnipeg's inner city.
June 22, 2005... Abstract This paper uses results from a study of fringe banking of an inner city neighbourhood in Winnipeg to understand the growth of fringe banks. While fringe financial services are more expensive than mainstream bank services, the...

Cities: the good and the world class.(Toronto: No Mean City, 3rd ed.)(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Arthur, Eric Toronto: No Mean City. Third Edition. Revised by Stephen A. Otto, with new essays by Christopher Hume, Catherine Nasmith, Susan Crean, and Mark Kingwell. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. 315 pp. ISBN 0-8020-6787-2 ...

Cowie, Jefferson and Joseph Heathcott, eds: Beyond the Ruins: The Meanings of Deindustrialization.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Cowie, Jefferson and Joseph Heathcott, eds Beyond the Ruins: The Meanings of Deindustrialization. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003. 372 pp. ISBN 0-8014-3921-3 (cloth), 0-8014-8871-0 (paper) Cowie and Heathcott--based respectively at...

Hanna, Stephen P. and Vincent J. Del Casino Jr., eds: Mapping Tourism.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Hanna, Stephen P. and Vincent J. Del Casino Jr., eds Mapping Tourism Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press, 2003. 219 pp. ISBN 0-8166-3956-6 Mapping Tourism investigates "how tourism maps work as integral parts of the production...

Jackson, John M., John M. Bertnick, & Gregory P. Stein: The Mighty Niagara: One River Two Frontiers.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Jackson, John M., John M. Bertnick, & Gregory P. Stein The Mighty Niagara: One River Two Frontiers. Amherst NY: Prometheus Books, 2002. 486 pp. ISBN: 1573929808 Students of Canadian-American relations will welcome this book, a large...

Jouve, Bernard et Booth, Philip, dirs: Democraties metropolitaines.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Jouve, Bernard et Booth, Philip, dirs Democraties metropolitaines. Quebec : Presses de l'Universite du Quebec, 2004. 335 pp. ISBN 2-7605-1236-3 Cet ouvrage collectif aborde les transformations des relations intergouvernementales et de la...

Kaufmann, Vinceut, Fritz Sager, Yves Ferrari, Dominique Joye: Coordonner transports et urbanisme.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Kaufmann, Vinceut, Fritz Sager, Yves Ferrari, Dominique Joye Coordonner transports et urbanisme. Lausanne : Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes, 2003. 220 pp. ISBN 2-88074-518-7 Avec l'accroissement de la preoccupation...

Lacaze, Jean-Paul: Renouveler l'urbanisme. Prospective et methodes.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Lacaze, Jean-Paul Renouveler l'urbanisme. Prospective et methodes. Paris: Presses de l'ecole nationale des Ponts et chaussees, 2000. 189 pp. ISBN: 2859783237 L'auteur est un enseignant universitaire, chercheur, mais surtout un grand commis...

Leloup, Xavier: La ville et l'Autre. Effets de composition et registres du rapport a L'Autre dans un espace pluriel (Ixelles).(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Leloup, Xavier La ville et l'Autre. Effets de composition et registres du rapport a L'Autre dans un espace pluriel (Ixelles). Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique, Presses universitaires de Louvain, 2002. 468 pp. ISBN 2-930344-19-9 Cet ouvmge...

Page, Max: The Creative Destruction of Manhattan 1900-1940.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Page, Max The Creative Destruction of Manhattan 1900-1940. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1999. 303 pp. ISBN 0-226-64469-3. Although the title of the book invokes Joseph Schumpeter's oxymoronic descriptive for capitalist...

Reitel, Bernard, Patricia Zender, Jean Luc Permay et Jean Pierre Renard: Villes et Frontieres.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Reitel, Bernard, Patricia Zender, Jean Luc Permay et Jean Pierre Renard Villes et Frontieres Paris : Economica / Anthropos Collection Villes, 2002. 275 pp. ISBN 2717844589 Villes et Frontieres is about cities and borders, and how and why...

Making space for planning debates in Canada/Faire place aux debats sur l'amenagement au Canada.
June 22, 2005... For the last three years Canadian Planning and Policy--Amenagement etpolitique au Canada has been published as an annual supplement to Canadian Journal of Urban Research--Revue canadienne de recherche urbaine. Many readers will recall that the...

Le << retour a la ville >> : un reinvestissement symbolique.
June 22, 2005... Dans les pays industrialises, les decennies d'apres-guerre, marquees par l'intensification des developpements peripheriques, sous forme de grandes zones residentielles et de nouveaux espaces de consommation et de production, ont ete...

Rethinking place in planning: opportunities in Northern and Aboriginal planning in Nunavut, Canada.
June 22, 2005... Introduction There is increasing discourse in the planning discipline with regards to the democratic deficit, a term used to describe the conceptual cleft existing between the state (or other regulatory decisionmaking bodies) and civil...

Toward a culturalist city: a planning agenda for peripheral mid-size cities.
June 22, 2005... Mid-size cities are pertinent subjects of research both on the scientific level and as regards the development of public policy. Above and beyond their size, which may vary from 50,000 to 500,000 inhabitants according to conventions, these...

Vers une definition du projet urbain, la planification du reamenagement du Vieux-Port de Montreal.
June 22, 2005... Le terme > sous-entend a la fois une operation particuliere d'amenagement et un concept tres specifique, une alternative a la planification traditionnelle. Il est alors entendu comme etant une pratique planificatrice ouverte et souple, comme le...

Evaluation in integrated waste management: understanding the crisis and improving practice through planning theory.
June 22, 2005... Introduction CBC Reporter: "The Chair of Toronto's Public Works Committee says he doubts Ottawa will stay out of the Adam's Mine issue. The Federal government is considering a request for an [federal] environmental assessment of the...

Barriers to Canadian municipal response to climate change.(air pollution control efforts)
June 22, 2005... INTRODUCTION In October 1988, leaders and policy experts from 46 countries participated in the Toronto Conference on the Changing Atmosphere where the first voluntary targets of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions were made. The...

Diversity and North American planning curricula: the need for reform.(diversity, educational planning)
June 22, 2005... Introduction In recent times, leading North American (1) planning educators as well as practitioners (Rodriguez 1992; Friedmann and Kuester 1994; Thomas 1996; Burayidi 2000; Wolfe 2003; Sandercock 2003; Goonewardena et al. 2004; Milroy...