Urban Studies, Planning & Architecture
Thinking Planning and Urbanism
When manufacturers and retailers vacate traditional locations, they leave holes in a city’s fabric that signal a shifting urban-industrial terrain. Who should mend these spaces, and how should they ...
A History of Domestic Space
This is a history of domestic space in Canada. Peter Ward looks at how spaces in the Canadian home have changed over the last three centuries, and how family and social relationships have shaped – and ...
Expansive Discourses
A groundbreaking study of urban sprawl in Calgary after the Second World War. The interactions of land developers and the local government influenced how the pattern grew: developers met market demands ...
Planning the New Suburbia
The suburbs house two-thirds of North America’s population and are the subject of much debate and criticism. Planning the New Suburbia explores this phenomenon and proposes ways to respond to the challenge ...
The Co-Workplace
Almost half of all jobs in North America and Europe could today be
performed away from a traditional office. Millions of office workers
are already working from home, and while some appreciate the
flexibility ...
Demography in Canada in the Twentieth Century
Augmenting published and unpublished sources with information culled
from personalized questionnaires sent to key scholars and
practitioners, Sylvia Wargon describes and interprets the development
of ...
Regional Economic Impact Analysis and Project Evaluation
This book provides a non-technical introduction to the fundamental principles and techniques of regional impact and evaluation analysis. The book is written for readers who have a minimal background in ...
Demographic Projection Techniques for Regions and Smaller Areas
The ability to project population trends is of vital importance for
anyone involved in planning -- in the public as well as the private
sector. This book provides the tools for making such projections ...
Metropolitan Governing
Metropolitan reforms have been implemented in Canada at a scale and frequency greater than anywhere else in the democratic world. Recent Canadian metropolitan reforms are setting precedents and could ...
Claiming Space
Claiming Space: Racialization in Canadian Cities critically examines the various ways in which Canadian cities continue to be racialized despite objective evidence of racial diversity and the dominant ...