The Canadian Geographer articles from September 2006

The Canadian Geographer archives from September 2006

Ghettos in Canada's cities? Racial segregation, ethnic enclaves and poverty concentration in Canadian urban areas.
September 22, 2006... Introduction Are there urban ghettos in Canada? There has been increasing interest in analyzing the impacts of growing visible minority populations in Canadian cities, particularly in terms of their links to levels of concentrated poverty...

Codification, patents and the geography of knowledge transfer in the electronic musical instrument industry.
September 22, 2006... Introduction Economic geographers have long recognized industrial learning as a situated process that is territorially and socially embedded. The vast literature on industrial districts, clusters and learning regions that accumulated...

Situating design in the Canadian household furniture industry.
September 22, 2006... Introduction In recent years, the emergence of a so-called 'design economy' has garnered a great deal of attention in the media, as well as in academia (Molotch 1996; Gibney and Luscombe 2000; Hutton 2000; Scott 2000). Julier (2000, 1),...

Culture, religion and curriculum lessons from the 'three books' controversy in Surrey, BC.
September 22, 2006... I find that the separation of the church and the state is one of the most beautiful inventions of modern times (Pierre Pettigrew, Foreign Minister, 2005, commenting on the same-sex marriage debate in Canada). ...

Entre integration economique et cohesion sociale: les cooperatives forestieres et le developpement regional au Quebec.
September 22, 2006... Introduction Le present article s'inscrit dans le contexte d'un projet de recherche visant a explorer les relations entre mondialisation, cohesion sociale et mouvement cooperatif au Canada. (1) Dans ce texte, nous tentons de mieux...

Health hazards and socio-economic status: a neighbourhood cohort approach, Vancouver, 1976-2001.
September 22, 2006... Introduction As students of health and health care, geographers have infused health research with a range of perspectives, approaches and techniques. An important contribution to the wider health community has been to shed light on the...

Urban brownfields redevelopment in Canada: the role of local government.
September 22, 2006... Introduction As in many U.S. and European cities, the legacy of a negligent past has left scars on Canada's urban landscapes in the form of numerous underused industrial and commercial brownfield sites. An article in Canada's popular...

Manufacturing Suburbs: Building Work and Home on the Metropolitan Frontier.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Manufacturing Suburbs: Building Work and Home on the Metropolitan Frontier edited by Robert Lewis, Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 2004, viii + 294 pp., paper US$24.95 (ISBN 1-59213-086-0) If the recent pace of loft creation in...

In the Space of Theory: Postfoundational Geographies of the Nation-State.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... In the Space of Theory: Postfoundational Geographies of the Nation-State by Matthew Sparke, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis and London, 2005, xxxv + 395 pp., paper US$25.94 (ISBN 0-8166-3190-5) For more than two decades,...

Nature-based Tourism in Peripheral Areas: Development or Disaster?(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Nature-based Tourism in Peripheral Areas: Development or Disaster? edited by C. Michael Hall and Stephen Boyd, Channel View Publications, Toronto, 2005, x + 281 pp., paper $US44.95 (ISBN 1845410009) Nature-based Tourism in Peripheral...

Geodiversity: Valuing and Conserving Abiotic Nature.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Geodiversity--Valuing and Conserving Abiotic Nature by Murray Gray, Wiley, 2004, xiii + 434 pp., cloth US$207.99 (ISBN 0-470-84895) The term 'geodiversity' is unfamiliar to many, perhaps, but its obvious similarity to the ubiquitous...

Spaces of Hate, Geographies of Discrimination and Intolerance in the U.S.A.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Spaces of Hate, Geographies of Discrimination and Intolerance in the U.S.A. edited by Colin Flint, Routledge, London and New York, 2004, xi + 265 pp., paper $23.95 (ISBN 0-415-93587) Colin Flint has assembled 13 provocative essays that...

British Atlantic, American Frontier: Spaces of Power in Early Modern British America.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... British Atlantic, American Frontier: Spaces of Power in Early Modern British America by Stephen J. Hornsby, University Press of New England, Hanover and London, 2005, xv + 307 pp., cloth US$60.00 (ISBN 1-58465-426-0), paper US$29.95 (ISBN...