The Myth of the North American City

Continentalism Challenged

By Michael Goldberg & John Mercer
Publisher: UBC Press
Ebook (EPUB) : 9780774843294, 328 pages, November 2011
Ebook (PDF) : 9780774857031, 328 pages, January 1986

Table of contents

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Preface

1. On Comparing American and Canadian Cities

2. Values and Culture: A Context for Comparing American and Canadian
Cities

3. Social and Demographic Structures in Canada and the United
States

4. Economic Organization and Economic Institutions in Canada and the
United States: The Fuel for Urban Growth and Change

5. Political Structure, Culture and Institutions in Canada and the
United States

6. Urban Form and Institutions in Canada and the United States

7. Urban Form and Social Characteristics

8. Urban Local Government: Structure and Finance

9. A Multivariate Approach to Metropolitan Differences

10. Making Plain the Difference

Notes

Bibliography

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Description

The continuing tendency to "continentalize" Canadian issues
has been particularly marked in the area of urban studies where United
States-based research findings, methodologies, and attitudes have held
sway. In this book, Goldberg and Mercer demonstrate that the label
"North American City" as widely used is inappropriate and
misleading in discussion of the distinctive Canadian urban environment.
Examining such elements of the cultural context as mass values, social
and demographic structures, the economy, and political institutions,
they reveal salient differences between Canada and the United States.