Canadian Cities in Transition: From the Local to the Global

by Pierre Filion and Trudi Bunting

As the federal government's recent 'New Deal for Cities' suggests, the importance of cities is now widely recognized. Large urban centres are seen at once as primary engines of the economy and as concentrations of societal problems: poverty, homelessness, criminality, environmental degradation. Calls are thus mounting not only for the allocation of more resources but for the adoption of new policies, grounded in urban realities, that will enable Canadian...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195422198
• ISBN13: 9780195422191
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 532 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 8.8" x 7.0"