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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461035303321

Titolo

The form of cities in central Canada : selected papers / / edited by L. S. Bourne, R. D. MacKinnon, J. W. Simmons

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1973

©1973

ISBN

1-4426-3234-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (259 p.)

Collana

University of Toronto Department of Geography Research Publications ; ; 11

Disciplina

301.36/3/09713

Soggetti

Cities and towns - Ontario

Cities and towns - Québec (Province)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Contents -- Editors' Comments -- 1. The Area of Interest: Urban Definitions in Canada -- 2 Methodological Problems in Measuring Urban Expansion -- Editors' Comments -- 3. Urban Form and City Size: An Ontario Example -- 4. Descriptive Patterns of Urban Land Use: A Summary -- 5. Application of the Lowry Model of Urban Structure to Toronto -- Editors' Comments -- 6. Components of Urban Land Use Change and Physical Growth -- 7. Spatio-Temporal Trends in Urban Population Density: A Trend Surface Analysis -- 8. Measuring Accessibility Change -- 9. Net Migration Patterns -- Editors' Comments -- 10. Community Ties and Support Systems: From Intimacy to Support -- 11. Ethnic Differences in the Residential Search Process -- 12. Discretionary and Nondiscretionary Aspects of Activity and Social Contact in Residential Selection -- 13. Household Relocation Patterns -- Editors' Comments -- 14. Subdivision Activity in the Periphery of the Toronto Urban Field -- 15. Migration in the Toronto-Centred Region

Sommario/riassunto

Do Canadian cities have a distinctive form? How has this form evolved over time; and what has been the impact of growth, transportation changes and differing lifestyles on the contemporary Canadian urban



environment? The research summarized in the present volume is directed at these kinds of questions. This book is an anthology of research papers and reports building around a common theme: urban development in Central Canada. Within this context, specific interests focus on the spatial structure of the city, land use distributions, patterns of population density and intercity migration, networks of interaction, communities, and lives. This collection of papers will be of interest as a general reference which is not just descriptive, but one which includes a range of examples of analytical approaches. As such it is also designed as a contribution to the growing literature on urban research and policy formulation in Canada.(University of Toronto Department of Geography Research Publications 12)