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Category : Housing
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
The Market for New Housing in the Metropolitan Toronto Area, 1961
Author: Economic Analysis of Provincial Land Use Policies in Ontario
Author: Mark w. FrankenaPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487597215
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This book describes and analyses the provincial government's role in municipal and regional planning. The conversion of farmland to urban and other uses is discussed, as are the issues raised by the reports of the Ontario Planning Act Review Committee and the Federal/Provincial Task Force on the Supply and Price of Serviced Residential Land and the province's Green Paper on Planning for Agriculture. The authors criticize the government's failure to conduct cost-benefit studies before setting up planning programs and show that there is little factual basis for recent alarm over the disappearance of farmland. Data gathered here for the first time show that the conversion of agricultural land to built-up urban use and non-farm rural residential use in Ontario has been taking place quite slowly in view of the rate of productivity increase in agriculture, the stock of agricultural land, and the decline in the acreage of census farms. Economists will find in this book a useful survey of recent trends and policies. Planners, policy-makers, and students will welcome this detailed case study of how economic analysis ought to be used in formulating land use policies.
Urban and Regional Planning in Canada
Author: J. Barry CullingworthPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351317709
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Originally published in 1987, this book presents a wide-ranging review of urban, regional, economic, and environmental planning in Canada. A comprehensive source of information on Canadian planning policies, it addresses the wide variations between Canadian provinces. While acknowledging similarities with programs and policies in the United States and Britain, the author documents the distinctively Canadian character of planning in Canada. Among the topics addressed in the book are: the agencies of planning; on the nature of urban plans; the instruments of planning; land policies; natural resources; regional planning at the federal level; regional planning and development in Ontario; regional planning in other provinces; environmental protection; planning and people; and reflections on the nature of planning in Canada. The author documents how governmental agencies handle problems of population growth, urban development, exploitation of natural resources, regional disparities, and many other issues that fall within the scope of urban and regional planning. But he goes beyond this to address matters of politics, law, economics, social organization. The book is pragmatic, eclectic, interpretive, and critical. It is a valuable contribution to international literature on planning in its political context.
Construction Review
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Category : Construction industry
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Issues for 1955 accompanied by supplement: Construction volume and costs, 1915-1954.
Canadiana
Author: Houses and Homes
Author: John SewellPublisher: James Lorimer & Company
ISBN: 1550284363
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
In the first comprehensive book on the topic since the 1970s, former Toronto mayor John Sewell considers housing issues in Canada. Writing in a style that is accessible and direct, Sewell considers public, private, and social housing. He looks at affordability and need, discusses definitions of good housing and good neighbourhoods, and examines the various approaches that governments have taken since World War II to increase the stock of reasonably priced housing. He shows why these approaches have consumed large amounts of public dollars yet have often failed. Indeed, homelessness is a larger problem in Canadian cities than ever before. In a time of shrinking public expenditures, he proposes the kinds of solutions necessary to ensure that all Canadians are well housed.. As chair of the Metro Toronto Housing Authority in the eighties and, more recently, as chair of the Commission on Planning and Development Reform in Ontario, Sewell has played a unique role in increasing public awareness of housing issues. His thought-provoking analysis will be of interest to all who believe that Canadians deserve affordable housing.
National Union Catalog
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Current research in sociology
Author: Margaret S. ArcherPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111681033
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
No detailed description available for "Current research in sociology".
The Toronto Region's Privately Developed New Communities
Author: Bureau of Municipal Research (Toronto, Ont.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Community development
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
The Public Metropolis
Author: Frances FriskenPublisher: Canadian Scholars’ Press
ISBN: 1551303302
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
The Public Metropolis traces the evolution of Ontario government responses to rapid population growth and outward expansion in the Toronto city region over an eighty-year period. Frisken rigorously describes the many institutions and policies that were put in place at different times to provide services of region-wide importance and skilfully assesses the extent to which those institutions and policies managed to achieve objectives commonly identified with effective regional governance. Although the province acted sporadically and often reluctantly in the face of regional population growth and expansion, Frisken argues that its various interventions nonetheless contributed to the region's most noteworthy achievement: a core city that continued to thrive while many other North American cities were experiencing population, economic, and social decline. This perceptive and comprehensive examination of issues related to the evolution of city regions is critical reading not only for those teaching and researching in the field, but also for city and regional planners, officials at all levels of government, and urban historians. The research, writing, and publication of this book has been supported by the Neptis Foundation.