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  1. Agricultural Land Use Change in Canada: Process and Consequences
    Land Use in Canada Series: Number 21

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1982
    Three of the six chapters focus on the Saugeen River Valley.
  2. All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
    The Experience of Modernity

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    Berman examines the clash of classes, histories, and clutures in the modern world, and ponders our prospects for coming to terms with the relationship between a liberating social and philosophical idealism and a complex, bureaucratic materialism.
  3. Breakfast of Biodiversity
    The Truth About Rain Forest Destruction

    Resource Type: Book
  4. The Canadian City
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    Based on the belief that a healthy city life is possible, this volume collects articles, stories and histories about the city and its people, covering aspects such as human and social relations, art and architecture, urban planning, land development, and the greening of the urban environment.
  5. Connexions
    Volume 3, Number 6 - December 1978 - Unemployment/Chomage

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
  6. Connexions
    Volume 10, Number 1 - Spring 1986 - The Arts and Social Change

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1986
  7. The Economy of Cities
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
    Ideas about what makes cities rich or poor, how cities grow, and how city growth affects national economies.
  8. Exploring Your Neighbourhood
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1984
    A guide for children to learn more about their neighbourhoods.
  9. The Global Gang Thang
    A World of Change: Armed Young Men and Gansta Culture (Globalization and Community)

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
  10. A Green History of the World
    The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    Ponting tracks the "green" history of the world showing how throughout history civilizations have collapsed when they exhausted the earth's natural resources.
  11. Ground Control: Fear and Happiness in the Twenty-First-Century City
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2009
    The shift in Britain's urban planning policy towards privatized 'public' spaces has resulted in homogenization of its landscapes.
  12. Highrise and Superprofits
    An Analysis of the Development Industry in Canada

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
  13. How it all adds up
    $4 billion more flows out than comes back in - and that has to change if the city is to stay healthy, critics say

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2002
    A discussion of Toronto's position within the Canadian economy, and an argument that given its' status as 'economic powerhouse' for the country, that perhaps some additional re-investment into the city is warranted.
  14. Jacobs, Jane
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Author, urban advocate, economist, ecologist, and philosopher. (1916-2006).
  15. Our Generation
    Volume 10 Number 3

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1974
  16. Our Generation
    Volume 23 Number 2

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1992
  17. The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 1: From the Beginning to the Eve of the French Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
  18. A pricey suburban sewer plan that stinks
    City pays for new pipe and the results will be flushed into our lake

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1998
    Discussion of connecting King township to the Toronto sewer system.
  19. Rebel Cities
    From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2012
    Harvey places cities at the centre of an anti-capitalist resistance, asking how they might be reorganized in more socially just and ecologically sustainable ways.
  20. The State of the World Atlas
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1981
  21. The Suburban Nation
    The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
    The choice is ours: either a society of homogeneous pieces, isolated from one another in often fortified enclaves, or a society of diverse and memorable neighbourhoods, organized into mutually supportive towns, cities and regions.
  22. Towns for People
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    Examines the pressures, lifestyle changes, and social factors that contributed to the decline in urban public life in the late 20th century.
  23. Working Class Experience
    Rethinking the History of Canadian Labour, 1800-1991

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    From nineteenth-century tavern life to late twentieth-century cinema, from rough canallers and the first stirrings of craft unionism to contemporary public-sector strikes, this books provides a sweeping interpretive study of the history of the Canadian working class since 1800.

Experts on Urbanization in the Sources Directory

  1. Canadian Encyclopedia
  2. Commonwealth Secretariat


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