City Lives and City Forms: Critical Research and Canadian Urbanism

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City Lives and City Forms

Critical Research and Canadian Urbanism

Edited by: Jon Caulfield and Linda Peake

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1996

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Focusing on a series of pivotal issues confronting Canadian cities and city-dwellers today, this volume address key themes in urban studies, including the interaction between social relations and urban landscape.

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Caulfield Jon :

Jon Caulfield is in the Division of Social Sciences, York University, and author of City Form and Everyday Life: Toronto's Gentrification and Critical Social Practice.

Peake Linda :

Linda Peake is in the Division of Social Science, York University.

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Social Sciences Political Science Political Science, other

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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Contributors
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Introduction
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Part 1: People, Places, Cultures
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1. The New Middle Class in Canadian Central Cities
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David Ley

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2. Monster Homes: Hong Kong Immigration to Canada, Urban Conflicts, and Contested Representations of Space
33
Alan Smart and Josephine Smart

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3. 'Urban' and 'Aboriginal': An Impossible Contradiction?
47
Evelyn Peters

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4. Excavating Toronto's Underground Streets: In Search of Equitable Rights, Rules, and Revenue
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Jeffrey Hopkins

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5. Feel Good Here? Relationships between Bodies and Urban Environments
82
Rob Shields

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6. Metropolis Unbound: Legislators and Interpreters of Urban Form
98
Engin F. Isin

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Part 2: The Economy of Cities
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7. Economic Restructuring and the Diversification of Gentrification in the 1980s: A View from a Marginal Metropolis
131
Damaris Rose

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8. Restructuring the Local State: Economic Development and Local Public Enterprise in Toronto
173
Graham Todd

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9. The Impact of Global Finance in Urban Structural Change: The International Banking Centre Controversy
195
Michael Goldrick

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10. Women and Work in a Canadian Community
215
Beth Moore Milroy

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11. Unemployment and Labour Markets in Hamilton during the Great Depression
239
Robert Lewis

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Part 3: Urban Social Movements
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12. New Social Movements and Women's Urban Activism
263
Gerda Wekerle and Linda Peake

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13. Anti-Racism Organizing and Resistance: Blacks in Urban Canada, 1940s-1970s
282
Agnes Calliste

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14. Challenging Spatial Control of the City: Capitalism, Ecological Crisis, and the Environmental Movement
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Franz Hartmann

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15. Victoria Regina: Social Movements and Political Space
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Warren Magnusson

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https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442672987

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City Lives and City Forms

Overview

About this book

Author / Editor information

Topics

Table of contents

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Introduction

1. The New Middle Class in Canadian Central Cities

2. Monster Homes: Hong Kong Immigration to Canada, Urban Conflicts, and Contested Representations of Space

3. 'Urban' and 'Aboriginal': An Impossible Contradiction?

4. Excavating Toronto's Underground Streets: In Search of Equitable Rights, Rules, and Revenue

5. Feel Good Here? Relationships between Bodies and Urban Environments

6. Metropolis Unbound: Legislators and Interpreters of Urban Form

7. Economic Restructuring and the Diversification of Gentrification in the 1980s: A View from a Marginal Metropolis

8. Restructuring the Local State: Economic Development and Local Public Enterprise in Toronto

9. The Impact of Global Finance in Urban Structural Change: The International Banking Centre Controversy

10. Women and Work in a Canadian Community

11. Unemployment and Labour Markets in Hamilton during the Great Depression

12. New Social Movements and Women's Urban Activism

13. Anti-Racism Organizing and Resistance: Blacks in Urban Canada, 1940s-1970s

14. Challenging Spatial Control of the City: Capitalism, Ecological Crisis, and the Environmental Movement

15. Victoria Regina: Social Movements and Political Space

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