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Changing Neighbourhoods - Social and Spatial Polarization in Canadian Cities

English · Hardback

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Changing Neighbourhoods offers revealing insights into the way that Canadian cities have grown increasingly unequal and polarized since 1980, identifying the causal factors driving neighbourhood change and their troubling implications.


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Foreword / Janet L. Smith
Preface
Part 1: Exploring Neighbourhood Change
1 Inequality and Neighbourhood Change: Context, Concept, and Process / Larry S. Bourne and J. David Hulchanski
2 Plus ça Change: Neighbourhood Inequality in Canadian Cities since 1900 / Richard Harris
3 Using Social Dimensions and Neighbourhood Typologies to Characterize Neighbourhood Change / Ivan Townshend and Robert Murdie
Part 2: Investigating Neighbourhood Change in Canada
4 Inequality and Neighbourhood Change in the Greater Toronto Region / Alan Walks
5 Montreal: The Changing Drivers of Inequality between Neighbourhoods / Xavier Leloup and Damaris Rose
6 The Social Geography of Uneven Incomes in Metropolitan Vancouver / David Ley and Nicholas Lynch
7 Hamilton: Poster Child for Concentrated Poverty / Richard Harris
8 Halifax: Scaling Inequality / Jill L. Grant and Howard Ramos
9 Neighbourhood Change in Calgary: An Evolving Geography of Income Inequality and Social Difference / Ivan Townshend, Byron Miller, and Derek Cook
10 People, Policies, and Place: Indigenous and Immigrant Population Shift s in Winnipeg's Inner-City Neighbourhoods / Jino Distasio and Sarah Zell
Part 3: Understanding the Implications of Neighbourhood Change
11 Mapping Canada's Fragmented Social Policy Space: Plotting Ways to Reverse Trends in Inequality and Segregation through Coordinated Poverty Reduction / Scott Graham, Stephanie Procyk, and Michelynn Laflèche
12 Evaluating Neighbourhood Inequality and Change: Lessons from a National Comparison / Jill L. Grant, Alan Walks, and Howard Ramos
References; Contributors; Index


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Edited by Jill L. Grant, Alan Walks, and Howard Ramos

Summary

Changing Neighbourhoods offers revealing insights into the way that Canadian cities have grown increasingly unequal and polarized since 1980, identifying the causal factors driving neighbourhood change and their troubling implications.

Product details

Assisted by Jill Grant (Editor), Jill L. Grant (Editor), Howard Ramos (Editor), Alan Walks (Editor)
Publisher University of British Columbia Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 31.12.2020
 
EAN 9780774862028
ISBN 978-0-7748-6202-8
No. of pages 348
Dimensions 261 mm x 201 mm x 25 mm
Weight 934 g
Illustrations 26 maps, 20 charts, 7 colour photos, 21 tables
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture
Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Urban, spatial and country planning

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