Urban Futures for Central Canada
Perspectives on Forecasting Urban Growth and Form

Larry S. Bourne (Edited by), Ross D. MacKinnon (Edited by), Jay Siegel (Edited by), James W. Simmons (Edited by)

9780802062437

Paperback / softback, published 15 December 1974

376 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.52 kg

Urban problems are now a dominant social issue: the essays in this volume consider the direction some of these problems may take in Central Canada. Three broad themes are discussed: forecasting (a spectrum of methodologies and urban forecasts); assessing the consequences of these forecasts at two levels (the growth of cities as an urban system and the growth and form of individual cities or urban regions); and assessing the role of changes in public policy. Specific topics include forecasting methodology in a spatial context, population and employment growth, migration, transportation, innovations, communication linkages, regional economic structure, economic fluctuations, the effects of public policy controls within a system of cities, land use and redevelopment, household mobility and social change, the spread of urban fields, and communities and neighbourhoods within cities.