The Canadian Geographer articles from September 2001

The Canadian Geographer archives from September 2001

Between Pinochet and Kropotkin: state terror, human rights and the geographers.(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 2001... John Wiley Lecture delivered to a meeting of the Canadian Association of Geographers and the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, June 2, 2000 Introduction: the State and the Vulnerable The...

Ottawa's Byward Market: a festive bone of contention?
September 22, 2001... An earlier article in this journal discussed urban markets, drawing a distinction between revitalizing historic market districts and recent festival marketplaces; it examined the Byward Market as a classic representative of the former type...

The identification of employment centres in Canadian metropolitan areas: the example of Montreal, 1996.(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 2001... Introduction Immediately after the Second World War, North American metropolitan areas began to experience intrametropolitan population decentralisation from the central city toward the suburbs. At the beginning of the 1960s, several major...

Urban impoverishment and multiple modes of livelihood in Ghana.(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 2001... Introduction The economic crisis that characterized many African economies in the 1970s and early 1980s led to intensification of poverty, particularly among urban residents. The increased urban impoverishment has been due in part to the...

Intermodal freight terminals: locality and industrial linkages.(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 2001... Introduction Freight terminals by their very function occupy large amounts of land in or very near urban centres. The fact that they take up this land means that other functions are excluded over extensive areas of cities. On the other...

Similarity of the flora of the Erie Islands: implications for conservation biology.(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 2001... Using a compiled list of the vascular flora for 21 islands in the western basin of Lake Erie, Preston's resemblance measure and Connor and Simberloff's Null Hypothesis I were applied to native and alien species subsets in order to examine how...

Pour une localisation optimale des centres de transbordement intermodaux entre reseaux de transport: formulation et extensions.
September 22, 2001... Introduction Durant la derniere decennie, de nombreuses publications se sont interessees a differents aspects de la problematique du transport multimodal tels que la complementarite des modes de transport, les modifications de politiques...

Canadian landform examples -- 41: `Les Sillons': a relict foredune plain.
September 22, 2001... `Les Sillons' (meaning `furrows') is the local name given to an outstanding example of a relict foredune plain on Les Iles de la Madeleine, Quebec. This series of shore-parallel dune ridges was built seaward during a period of post-glacial sea...

The Postmodern Urban Condition. (Reviews / Comptes rendus).
September 22, 2001... The Postmodern Urban Condition by Michael J. Dear, Blackwell, Oxford and Malden, MA, 2000, xii + 337 pp. cloth US$64.95 (ISBN 0-631-209875); paper US$26.95 (ISBN 0-631-20988-3) It seems that Los Angeles (LA) is too much for the author --...

Quantitative Geography: Perspectives on Spatial Data Analysis. (Reviews / Comptes rendus).
September 22, 2001... Quantitative Geography: Perspectives on Spatial Data Analysis by A. Stewart Fotheringham, Chris Brunsdon and Martin Charlton, Sage Publications, London, 2000, xii + 270 pp. cloth 49.50 [pounds sterling] (ISBN 0-7619-5947-5); paper 16.99 [pounds...

Dissident Geographies: An Introduction to Radical Ideas and Practice. (Reviews / Comptes rendus).
September 22, 2001... Dissident Geographies: An Introduction to Radical Ideas and Practice by Alison Blunt and Jane Wills, Prentice Hall, Harlow, 2000, xii + 212 pp. paper 18.99 [pounds sterling] (ISBN 0-582-29489-4) This is an exciting book! The authors have...

Citizens and Nation: An Essay on History, Communication, and Canada. (Reviews / Comptes rendus).
September 22, 2001... Citizens and Nation: An Essay on History, Communication, and Canada. by Gerald Friesen, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2000, x + 307 pp. cloth $ 55.00 (IBSN 0-8020-4709-2); paper $22.95 (IBSN 0-8020-8283-1) This is an unusual and...