The Canadian Geographer articles from December 2004

The Canadian Geographer archives from December 2004

Reimagining sustainable cultures: constitutions, land and art.
December 22, 2004... Introduction Evidence of ancient human lifeways in silent landscapes inevitably raises questions, and many of the questions that have given life to this paper were formed in solitary observation of inuksuit on tundra, or standing stones on...

Crime and disorder, and house sales and prices around the casino sites in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
December 22, 2004... Introduction A new urban casino's external effects on its neighbourhood are modelled from two theories about people's activities and their effects on the locations and timings of either crime and disorder offences, or property sales and...

Dimensions and dynamics of residential segregation by income in urban Canada, 1991-1996.
December 22, 2004... Introduction The study of residential segregation has long been a staple of Anglo-American urban research. Racial segregation tends to be the overriding concern of studies of residential segregation in the United States (Farley et al 1978;...

Introductory remarks: special thematic papers in transport geography.
December 22, 2004... Transportation is a complex and increasingly prominent part of our lives. The complexity is evident not only in the systems of movement themselves, but in the multifaceted impacts these systems have on their environment--social, economic and...

Muddy shore to modern port: redimensioning the Montreal waterfront time-space.
December 22, 2004... Introduction In Montreal, as in most port cities, the waterfront has long been the primacy interface between the city and the markets of the world. Over the last two centuries or so, since the onset of industrialisation, cityports across...

Dealing with globalisation at the regional and local level: the case of contemporary containerization.
December 22, 2004... This paper considers the challenges that ocean container companies face in developing global operations in the ocean and land realms. The recent horizontal and vertical integration of the ocean carriers and the subsequent formation of global...

What about effective access to cars in motorised households?
December 22, 2004... Introduction Literature on urban travel behaviour usually defines captive users of public transit systems as individuals without car access (Rutherford and Wekerle 1988; Polzin et al. 2000). Analysts estimate the proportion of carless...

Picturing Place: Photography and the Geographical Imagination.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Picturing Place: Photography and the Geographical Imagination edited by Joan M. Schwartz and James R. Ryan, I.B. Tauris, London and New York, 2003, xiv + 354 pp., pp., cloth C$75 (ISBN 1-86064-751-0), paper C$27.50 (ISBN 1-86064-752-9) ...

Healing Places.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Healing Places by Wilbert M. Gesler, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, MD, 2003, ix+144pp., cloth U5560.00 (ISBN 0-7425-1955-4), paper US$22.95 (ISBN 0-7425-1956-2) The therapeutic landscape concept has been given much thought...

Geomorphologie structurale terre et corps planetaires solides relief et geodynamic.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Geomorphologie structurale terre et corps planetaires solides relief et geodynamic par J.P. Peulvast, et J.R. Vanney, 2002, Tome 2 editions, Gordon & Breach, Paris et du BRGM, Orleans, 524 pp., 195 figures, 17 x 24cm, US$75.00 (ISBN...

A companion to political geography.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... A Companion to Political Geography edited by John Agnew, Katharyne Mitchell and Gerard Toal, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, 2003, xii + 494 pp., cloth US$104.95 (ISBN 0-6312-2031-3) This is a useful hook for students of political...

Redundant Masculinities? Employment Change and White Working Class Youth.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Redundant Masculinities? Employment Change and White Working Class Youth by Linda McDowell, Blackwell Publishing, Malden, MA, 2003, xi + 287 pp., cloth US$86.43 (ISBN 1-4051-0585-2), paper US$53.16 (ISBN 1-4051-0586-0) Redundant...

Tilting: House Launching, Slide Hauling, Potato Trenching and Other Tales from a Newfoundland Fishing Village.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Tilting: House Launching, Slide Hauling, Potato Trenching and Other Tales from a Newfoundland Fishing Village by Robert Mellin, Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 2003, ix+245pp., cloth US$24.95 (ISBN 1-56898-383-2) Tilting is a...

From Love Canal to Environmental Justice: The Politics of Hazardous Waste on the Canada-U.S. Border.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... From Love Canal to Environmental Justice: The Politics of Hazardous Waste on the Canada-U.S. Border by Thomas H. Fletcher, Broadview Press, Peterborough, 2003, 239 pp., paper C$26.95 (ISBN 1-55111-434-8) Eclectic in method, well...

Tom Lee McKnight (1928-2004).(Obituary)(Obituary)
December 22, 2004... Tom McKnight died in Los Angeles on February 16, 2004, at the age of seventy-five. Tom was born in Dallas, and although he spent most of the past fifty years in Southern California, he will always be, in my mind, a Texan. His BA was from...