Urban Futures for Central Canada
Perspectives on Forecasting Urban Growth and Form
Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Sociology, Urban
| Author: | ISBN: | 9781442650718 | |
| Publisher: | University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division | Publication: | December 15, 1974 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | |
| ISBN: | 9781442650718 |
| Publisher: | University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division |
| Publication: | December 15, 1974 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
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. Three broad themes are discussed: forecasting (a spectrum of methodologies and urban forecasts); assessing the consequences of these forecasts at two levels (the growth of cities as an urban system and the growth and form of individual cities or urban regions); and assessing the role of changes in public policy. Specific topics include forecasting methodology in a spatial context, population and employment growth, migration, transportation, innovations, communication linkages, regional economic structure, economic fluctuations, the effects of public policy controls within a system of cities, land use and redevelopment, household mobility and social change, the spread of urban fields, and communities and neighbourhoods within cities.
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. Three broad themes are discussed: forecasting (a spectrum of methodologies and urban forecasts); assessing the consequences of these forecasts at two levels (the growth of cities as an urban system and the growth and form of individual cities or urban regions); and assessing the role of changes in public policy. Specific topics include forecasting methodology in a spatial context, population and employment growth, migration, transportation, innovations, communication linkages, regional economic structure, economic fluctuations, the effects of public policy controls within a system of cities, land use and redevelopment, household mobility and social change, the spread of urban fields, and communities and neighbourhoods within cities.
