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11%OFF. Ed(S): Caulfield, Jon; Peake, Linda - City Lives and City Forms: Critical Research and Canadian Urbanism - 9780802069504 - V9780802069504
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City Lives and City Forms: Critical Research and Canadian Urbanism

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Description for City Lives and City Forms: Critical Research and Canadian Urbanism paperback. 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. Editor(s): Caulfield, Jon; Peake, Linda. Num Pages: 347 pages, maps. BIC Classification: JFSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 550.

Focusing on a series of pivotal issues confronting Canadian cities and city-dwellers today, this volume address key themes in urban studies:the interaction between social relations and urban landscape, the status of the city in the new world economy, and the sociocultural complexity of urban populations. The fifteen essays presented here reflect the current preoccupations and perspectives of critically oriented urban researchers in Canada. The essays in Part 1, 'People, Places, Cultures,' examine the nature of urban space and the links between this space and social relations, illustrating the fundamental principle that urban spaces are 'built values' and 'built politics' - ... Read more

Consisting largely of applied case studies, rather than broad thematic essays, City Lives and City Forms presents an overall argument for focused critical research in the urban field and suggests possible directions for the future.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
347
Condition
New
Number of Pages
347
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9780802069504
SKU
V9780802069504
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Ref
99-1

About . Ed(S): Caulfield, Jon; Peake, Linda
Jon Caulfield is in the Division of Social Sciences, York University, and author of City Form and Everyday Life: Toronto's Gentrification and Critical Social Practice. Linda Peake is in the Division of Social Science, York University.

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