The Politics of Canadian Urban Development

Table of Contents

• Table of Contents 6
• Preface 9
• Introduction 12
• The Scope of the Study 14
• The Relative Inconsequence of Provincial Decisions on Urban Affairs 16
• The Municipal-Provincial Political Threat 25
• The Recent Federal Initiative 30
• The Implications for Alberta 38
• Chapter 1. Federal attempts to cope: regional underdevelopment, 1935 to 1970 42
• The ARDA, FRED, and DREE Legislation 44
• The Regional Development Incentives Act, 1969 53
• Federal-Provincial Inter-relations Under the 1969 Incentives Act 58
• The Direction and Trend 63
• Chapter 2. Federal attempts to cope: degraded city areas, 1935 to 1952 68
• The Dominion Housing Act, 1935; the Home Improvement Plan, 1937; and the Municipal Improvements Assistance Act, 1938 68
• The First National Housing Act, 1938 76
• Wartime Developments and the 1944 National Housing Act 88
• Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation, 1945 98
• Housing and the Changing Economic Scene 106
• Chapter 3. Federal attempts to cope: administration and money, 1952 to 1962 112
• The Problems of 1952-54 112
• Increasing Federal Administrative Involvement, 1954-56 115
• The Trend to the Construction of Multiple-Family Dwellings, 1952-56 122
• Early Approaches to the Problem of Municipal Finance 124
• Increasing Federal Direct Aid, 1956-1960, and Provincial Tax-Sharing Issues 128
• Federal Direct Aid to Local Authorities, 1960-62 137
• Chapter 4. The swing to the downtown city centre, 1963 to 1969 148
• Planning and the Growth of Manufacturing 148
• The Municipal Development and Loan Board, 1963-68 153
• Fundamental Changes in the NHA, 1964: the Downtown Centre 161
• New Organizational Measures and the Financial Risk of Highrise Blocks 170
• The 1966-67 Housing Crisis and the Relative Freeing of Interest Rates 174
• Alberta's 1967-68 Boom 183
• Chapter 5. Federal attempts to cope: gearing up national urban policy, 1967 to 1969 195
• Early Thoughts on a New Federal Initiative, 1967 195
• Coping with the Issues, 1967-68 203
• The Hellyer Task Force, 1968, and the Crisis Over the Constitution, 1969 211
• The 1969 Amendments to the NHA 227
• Chapter 6. Urban policy for Canada, 1969 to 1971 239
• The Need for Co-ordination 239
• The Political Struggle and the Clarification of Ideas 248
• The "Urban Canada" Studies, 1970 256
• Assumptions 257
• Prognoses 274
• A National Urban Policy? 276
• Chapter 7. The federal direction, 1935 to 1971, and some conclusions 301
• The Federal-Lending Institution Relationship 301
• The Vicarious Use of Urban Affairs 310
• The Federal Drive for Unity 319
• The Provincial Role in the Urban Policy for Canada 324
• Bibliography 334