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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461524403321

Titolo

Shaping the urban landscape [[electronic resource] ] : aspects of the Canadian city-building process / / edited by Gilbert A. Stelter and Alan F.J. Artibise

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ottawa, Canada, : Carleton University Press

Don Mills, Ont., : Distributed by Oxford University Press, 1982

ISBN

1-283-53152-6

9786613843975

0-7735-8486-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (446 p.)

Collana

Carleton library series ; ; no. 125

Altri autori (Persone)

StelterGilbert Arthur <1933->

ArtibiseAlan F. J

Disciplina

307.7/6/0971

Soggetti

City planning - Canada - History

Urbanization - Canada - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; I: INTRODUCTION; II: URBAN GROWTH STRATEGIES; III: EVOLVING URBAN FORM; Notes on Editors; Notes on Contributors; 1. The City Building Process in Canada; 2. Ideology and Political Economy in Urban Growth: Guelph, 1827-1927; 3. Montreal Banks and the Urban Development of Quebec, 1840-1914; 4. Staples and the New Industrialism in the Growth of Post-Confederation Halifax; 5. In Pursuit of Growth: Municipal Boosterism and Urban Development in the Canadian Prairie West, 1871-1913; 6. Physical Expansion and Socio-Cultural Segregation in Quebec City, 1765-1840

7. Speculation and the Physical Expansion of Mid-Nineteenth Century Hamilton8. The subdivision Process in Toronto, 1851-1883; 9. Building Halifax, 1841-1871; 10. Reshaping the Urban Landscape? Town Planning Efforts in Kitchener/Waterloo, 1912-1926; 11. The Development and Beautification of an Industrial City: Maisonneuve, 1883-1918; 12. From Land Assembly to Social Maturity: The Suburban Life of Westdale (Hamilton), Ontario, 1911-1951; 13. Politics, Space,



and Trolleys: Mass Transit in Early Twentieth-Century Toronto; 14. ""C.P.R. Town"": The City-Building Process in Vancouver, 1860-1914

15. Canadian Resource Towns in Historical Perspective