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Political Science City Planning & Urban Development

The Myth of the North American City

Continentalism Challenged

by (author) Michael Goldberg & John Mercer

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Nov 2011
Category
City Planning & Urban Development
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774843294
    Publish Date
    Nov 2011
    List Price
    $25.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774802383
    Publish Date
    Jan 1986
    List Price
    $27.95

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The continuing tendency to "continentalize" Canadian issues has been particularly marked in the area of urban studies where United States-based research findings, methodologies, and attitudes have held sway. In this book, Goldberg and Mercer demonstrate that the label "North American City" as widely used is inappropriate and misleading in discussion of the distinctive Canadian urban environment. Examining such elements of the cultural context as mass values, social and demographic structures, the economy, and political institutions, they reveal salient differences between Canada and the United States.

About the authors

Contributor Notes

Michael A. Goldberg is the Herbert R. Fullerton Professor of Urban Land Policy at the University of British Columbia. John Mercer is associate professor of geography at Syracuse University.