City Lives and City Forms : Critical Research and Canadian Urbanism.

Intro -- Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- Introduction -- Part 1: People, Places, Cultures -- 1 The New Middle Class in Canadian Central Cities -- 2 Monster Homes: Hong Kong Immigration to Canada, Urban Conflicts, and Contested Representations of Space -- 3 'Urban' and 'Aboriginal': An Impossible Contradiction? -- 4 Excavating Toronto's Underground Streets: In Search of Equitable Rights, Rules, and Revenue -- 5 Feel Good Here? Relationships between Bodies and Urban Environments -- 6 Metropolis Unbound: Legislators and Interpreters of Urban Form -- Part 2: The Economy of Cities -- 7 Economic Restructuring and the Diversification of Gentrification in the 1980s: A View from a Marginal Metropolis -- 8 Restructuring the Local State: Economic Development and Local Public Enterprise in Toronto -- 9 The Impact of Global Finance in Urban Structural Change: The International Banking Centre Controversy -- 10 Women and Work in a Canadian Community -- 11 Unemployment and Labour Markets in Hamilton during the Great Depression -- Part 3: Urban Social Movements -- 12 New Social Movements and Women's Urban Activism -- 13 Anti-Racism Organizing and Resistance: Blacks in Urban Canada, 1940s-1970s -- 14 Challenging Spatial Control of the City: Capitalism, Ecological Crisis, and the Environmental Movement -- 15 Victoria Regina: Social Movements and Political Space.

Focusing on a series of pivotal issues confronting Canadian cities and city-dwellers today, this volume address key themes in urban studies, including the interaction between social relations and urban landscape.

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