Canadian Urban Growth Trends

Implications for a National Settlement Policy

By Ira M. Robinson
Categories: Geography, Geography, Urban Studies, Planning & Architecture
Series: Human Settlement Issues
Publisher: UBC Press
Ebook (EPUB) : 9780774845120, 179 pages, January 2011
Ebook (PDF) : 9780774857833, 179 pages, October 2007
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Table of contents

Illustrations

Tables

Foreword / H. Peter Oberlander

Preface

1. Misconceptions about Present and future Canadian Urbanization:
Conventional Wisdom

2. Recent Urban Growth Trends

3. Reasons for Changes: Some Tentative Hypotheses

4. The Future Pattern of Settlement

5. Planning for the Emerging Settlement Pattern: Problems and
Opportunities

6. Need for a National Settlement Policy

Epilogue: Some Research and Information Needs

Notes

Appendix: Habitat '76 Recommendations for Settlement Policies
and Planning

Bibliography

Description

Canadian Urban Growth Trends is a penetrating analysis of the
conditions and the sometimes perplexing recent trends in urban
population growth in Canada which presents a strong argument for the
adoption of a settlements policy at the federal level.