Urban and regional planning in a federal state : the Canadian experience / edited by William T. Perks and Ira M. Robinson

Contributor(s): Perks, William T [editor] | Robinson, Ira M [editor]Material type: TextTextSeries: Community development series ; v.41Publication details: Stroudsburg, Pa. : Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross, c1979Description: xiv, 363 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN: 0070493103Subject(s): CITY PLANNING -- CANADA | REGIONAL PLANNING -- CANADA | LAND USE -- CANADA -- PLANNINGLOC classification: HT 169 .U73 1979
Contents:
Foreword -- Series editor's foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: a retrospective look at canadian planning and development -- PART 1. URBANIZATION, REGIONALISM, AND PUBLIC POLICIES: 1. Urbanization trends and the federal response -- 2. Developmental planning: state of the art and prescription -- 3. Planning, building, and managing new towns on the resource frontier -- 4. The decentralization of population and/or economic activity: a method for assessing its impact on small centers -- PART II. RESOURCES, NATURAL ECOSYSTEMS, AND THE ENVIRONMENT: 5. A socio-environmental model: Haldimand-Norfolk, a case study -- 6. An ecosystems framework for urban design -- 7. Tourism and recreation planning: a methodological approach to the valuation and calibration of tourist activities -- 8. Urban wildlife planning and management -- 9. The Canada land inventory and its impact on regional planning -- PART III. LAND OWNERSHIP, CONTROL, AND MANAGEMENT: 10. Public lands and prospects of a Canadian urbanism -- 11. Changing philosophy and methods in public land laws -- 12. Trends in provincial land planning, control, and management -- 13. Barriers to effective land banking: the Canadian experience -- PART IV. ORGANIZATION FOR PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT: 14. Planning in a metropolitan framework: the Toronto experience -- 15. Development control in Calgary: the case of fortuitous -- 16. The Halifax-Dartmouth waterfront project -- 17. The politics of urban populism: a decade of reform orthy-- PART V. PUBLIC PARTIIPATION: 18. Public hearings in environmental planning in management -- 19. Planning in a human way: the public in the process -- 20. The Britannia community services centre: a lesson in participatory planning and design -- Index.
Summary: The totality of this book is more than the sum of its parts. For the first time practitioners and students of planning and the growing number of Canadians concerned with the changes in the environment of their vast country occurring under the impact of rapid urbanization are presented with a comprehensive picture of that unique development and of the specific Canadian attempts to cope with it. It is a testimony to the fact that in this field, as in others, Canada is coming of age.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Foreword -- Series editor's foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: a retrospective look at canadian planning and development -- PART 1. URBANIZATION, REGIONALISM, AND PUBLIC POLICIES: 1. Urbanization trends and the federal response -- 2. Developmental planning: state of the art and prescription -- 3. Planning, building, and managing new towns on the resource frontier -- 4. The decentralization of population and/or economic activity: a method for assessing its impact on small centers -- PART II. RESOURCES, NATURAL ECOSYSTEMS, AND THE ENVIRONMENT: 5. A socio-environmental model: Haldimand-Norfolk, a case study -- 6. An ecosystems framework for urban design -- 7. Tourism and recreation planning: a methodological approach to the valuation and calibration of tourist activities -- 8. Urban wildlife planning and management -- 9. The Canada land inventory and its impact on regional planning -- PART III. LAND OWNERSHIP, CONTROL, AND MANAGEMENT: 10. Public lands and prospects of a Canadian urbanism -- 11. Changing philosophy and methods in public land laws -- 12. Trends in provincial land planning, control, and management -- 13. Barriers to effective land banking: the Canadian experience -- PART IV. ORGANIZATION FOR PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT: 14. Planning in a metropolitan framework: the Toronto experience -- 15. Development control in Calgary: the case of fortuitous -- 16. The Halifax-Dartmouth waterfront project -- 17. The politics of urban populism: a decade of reform orthy-- PART V. PUBLIC PARTIIPATION: 18. Public hearings in environmental planning in management -- 19. Planning in a human way: the public in the process -- 20. The Britannia community services centre: a lesson in participatory planning and design -- Index.

The totality of this book is more than the sum of its parts. For the first time practitioners and students of planning and the growing number of Canadians concerned with the changes in the environment of their vast country occurring under the impact of rapid urbanization are presented with a comprehensive picture of that unique development and of the specific Canadian attempts to cope with it. It is a testimony to the fact that in this field, as in others, Canada is coming of age.

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