Political Science City Planning & Urban Development
The Myth of the North American City
Continentalism Challenged
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Nov 2011
- Category
- City Planning & Urban Development
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774843294
- Publish Date
- Nov 2011
- List Price
- $25.95
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774802383
- Publish Date
- Jan 1986
- List Price
- $27.95
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Description
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.