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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817947803321

Titolo

Urban futures for central Canada : perspectives on forecasting urban growth and form / / editors, Larry S. Bourne [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1974

©1974

ISBN

1-4426-5071-0

1-4426-3233-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 367 pages) : illustrations, 1 map

Collana

Heritage

Disciplina

301.36/0971

Soggetti

Urbanization - Canada

Cities and towns - Growth

Cities and towns - Ontario

Cities and towns - Québec (Province)

Case studies.

Electronic books.

Canada

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Studies in this volume directed by Centre for Urban and Community Studies University of Toronto"--Preliminary page.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Forecasts of urban growth -- Defining the Future urban system / James W. Simmons & Larry S. Bourne -- Forecasting township populations of Ontario, from time-space covariances / Leslie Curry & Geoffrey Bannister -- Forecasting urban populations / Jay Siegel -- Long-range employment forecasting for the Toronto metropolitan region / Jon R. Miron -- Growth and the urban system -- Urban growth and the urban hierarchy / Jay Siegel & Monty Woodyard -- The components of interurban migration streams / Monty Woodyard -- Future interurban transportation in Central Canada / Ross D. MacKinnon -- Intercity linkage patterns / James W. Simmons & Ian J. Lindsay -- Forecasting the regional economy of Ontario / John N.H. Britton & Gerald M. Barber -- Spatial-temporal relationships in the Quebec urban system / Claude Marchand -- The effects of public policy on the future urban system / Hans Blumenfeld -- Growth and urban form -- Trends in future urban



land use / Larry S. Bourne & Peter D. Harper -- Urban transportation in the future / Ross D. MacKinnon -- Household movement trends and social change / James W. Simmons -- The city in the periphery / Gerald Hodge -- The form and function of future communities / Barry Wellman -- Appendixes: Population forecasts for townships in Ontario, 1971-2001 -- Population forecasts for cities in Central Canada, 1971-2001.

Sommario/riassunto

Urban problems are now a dominant social issue: the essays in this volume consider the direction some of these problems may take in Central Canada.