Issues of urban policy are increasingly complex and important. Whether considered from a social, demographic, or economic perspective, Canada is overwhelmingly an urban nation and healthy, prosperous cities are the key to its well-being. What then, is our national policy toward urban affairs? In Urban Affairs leading experts in a variety of disciplines explore this question.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 307.76/0971
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- 21
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- n-cn---
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- 9780773570146 0773523529
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- HT127
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- U733 2002eb
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- 1 electronic text (vi, 400 p.)
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- Canada
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)jme00326333 (OCoLC)180704163 (CaOOCEL)400583
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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Introduction: Urban Affairs in Canada: Changing Roles and Changing Perspectives 12
- PART ONE: BUILDING CIVIL SOCIETY 30
- 1 Immigration and Canadian Cities: Building Inclusion 32
- 2 Aboriginal People in Urban Areas 54
- 3 Bright New Vision or Same Old Story? Looking for Gender Justice in the Eco-city 80
- 4 "The Voice of Women" in Canadian Local Government 102
- 5 What Causes Inner-city Decay, and What Can Be Done about It? 128
- PART TWO: GOVERNANCE 158
- 6 Is Urban Affairs a Priority on the Public Agenda? 160
- 7 Toronto's Legal Challenge to Amalgamation 166
- 8 Signs of Life? The Transformation of Two-tier Metropolitan Government 188
- PART THREE: PLANNING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 208
- 9 Community Economic Development in Canadian Cities: From Experiment to Mainstream 210
- 10 Urban Issues and the New Policy Challenges: The Example of Public Consultation Policy in Montreal 230
- 11 From the National to the Local: Recent Lessons for Economic Development Policy 248
- 12 Postmodern Planning: All Talk, No Action? 274
- PART FOUR: FISCAL CHALLENGES 296
- 13 Emerging Trends in Urban Affairs – A Municipal Manager's View 298
- 14 Some Puppets; Some Shoestrings! The Changing Intergovernmental Context 312
- 15 Have Fiscal Issues Put Urban Affairs Back on the Policy Agenda? 318
- CONCLUSION 338
- 16 The City as the Hope of Democracy 340
- Bibliography 354
- Index 404
- A 404
- B 404
- C 404
- D 404
- E 404
- F 404
- G 405
- H 405
- I 405
- J 405
- K 405
- L 405
- M 405
- N 405
- O 405
- P 405
- Q 405
- R 405
- S 405
- T 405
- U 405
- V 406
- W 406
- About the Authors 408
