Edited by Larry S. Bourne, Tom Hutton, Richard Shearmur and Jim Simmons
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Part I: Dynamics of Change in the Canadian Urban System
1. Larry S. Bourne, Tom Hutton, Richard Shearmur, and Jim Simmons: Introduction and Overview: Growth and Change in Canadian
Cities
2. Mario Polèse and Jim Simmons: Canadian Cities in a Global Context
3. Larry S. Bourne, Cedric Brunelle, Mario Polèse, and Jim Simmons: Growth and Change in the Canadian Urban System
4. Jim Simmons, Larry S. Bourne, Tom Hutton, and Richard Shearmur: Political Economy, Governance,
and Urban Policy in Canada
5. Richard Shearmur and Tom Hutton: Canada's Changing City-Regions: The Expanding Metropolis
6. R. Alan Walks: Economic Restructuring and Trajectories of Socio-spatial Polarization in the Twenty-First-Century Canadian City
Part II: The Case Studies: Canada's
Power Metropolises
7. Jim Simmons and Larry S. Bourne: Case Studies Overview: A Profile of Canada's Major Metropolitan Areas
8. Richard Shearmur and Norma Rantisi: Montreal: Rising Again from the Same Ashes
9. Caroline Andrew, Brian Ray, and Guy Chiasson: Ottawa-Gatineau: Capital
Formation
10. Larry S. Bourne, John N.H. Britton, and Deborah Leslie: The Greater Toronto Region: The Challenges of Economic Restructuring, Social Diversity, and Globalization
11. Byron Miller and Alan Smart: 'Heart of the New West'? Oil and Gas, Rapid Growth, and Consequences in
Calgary
12. Trevor Barnes, Tom Hutton, David Ley, and Markus Moos: Vancouver: Restructuring Narratives in the Transnational Metropolis
Part III: Perspectives on Theory, Policy, and Practice
13. Tom Hutton, Larry S. Bourne, Richard Shearmur, and Jim Simmons: Perspectives on Theory,
Policy, and the Future Urban Economy
Index
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Larry S. Bourne is Professor Emeritus of Geography and Planning and past Director of both the Graduate Program in Planning and the Centre for Urban and Community Studies (CUCS) at the University of Toronto. Professor Bourne is currently a senior scholar with the Global Cities Program and has
just completed a term as Interim Director of the University's new Cities Centre in 2008. He received a B.A. (Hons.) in Geography from the University of Western Ontario, an M.A. from Alberta, and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1966. Following a year as a post-doctoral research fellow in
regional economic development he took up a position at the University of Toronto. He has since held visiting professor positions in Los Angeles, Melbourne, London, OECD (Paris), Warsaw, Texas and Tokyo.
Tom Hutton is a Professor and Associate Director at the Centre for Human Settlements
and School of Community & Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia. His research agenda concerns processes and outcomes of industrial restructuring in the metropolis. He is currently collaborating on an investigation of cultural economic development; a project on cultural development
policy in Italy; and a comparative study of planning innovation for the Metro Vancouver and Amsterdam - North Holland regions. He has published extensively on urban geography subjects.
Richard Shearmur is a researching professor at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique,
Urbanisation Culture at the Université du Québec at Montreal. He is the holder of the Canada Chair in Spatial Statistics and Public Policy and has a varied academic background, having studied Land Economy at Cambridge, worked for five years as a chartered surveyor and international property
consultant in Europe, then completed a Master's in Urban Planning at McGill and a PhD in Economic Geography at University of Montreal. He has published widely on questions of regional development, peripheral regions, metropolitan economies, urban form and, more recently, on the geography of
innovation. He also regularly acts as a consultant to municipal, provincial, and federal government departments in Canada.
Jim Simmons is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Geography at the University of Toronto, and Senior Researcher at the Centre for the Study of Commercial
Activity at Ryerson University. He has been studying Urban Geography for more than forty years. He began his teaching career at the University of Western Ontario and relocated to the University of Toronto in 1967. Simmons' main area of research is the Canadian urban system, where he has worked
with his colleague, Larry Bourne. He has written several books and over eighty articles and research reports about commercial activity.
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