Shaping the Urban Landscape: Aspects of the Canadian City-Building Process

Stelter, Gilbert A.; Artibise, Alan F. J.

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“…10 Distance effects were measured in several ways: as straight-line distances (transformed and untransformed) from the centroids of all census tracts to the centroid of the tract (or tracts) identified as the central business district; and in terms of 1-km, 2-km, and 5-km concentric distance bands outward from the CBD. 11 The effects of the timing of development and the morphological imprint of building cycles on the urban landscape are well documented by Stelter and Artibise (1982) for Canadian cities and Whitehead (1 987) for British cities. 12 Land use change statistics for all Canadian urban areas are not readily available on a uniform and disaggregated basis.…”

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Are New Urban Forms Emerging? Empirical Tests for Canadian Urban Areas

Bourne

1989

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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Frequent reference is made in the urban literature to a recent and massive restructuring of the form of contemporary cities. This paper tests five separate but related hypotheses concerning the outcomes of this process and whether they suggest the emergence of new urban forms. The analysis builds on the results reported in an earlier paper in this journal using data on the changing intraurban properties of the 27 largest urban areas in Canada. The empirical results confirm the hypotheses of a continued decentralization of population and employment and of an increasingly diverse social and ethnocultural landscape. They do not, however, support the hypotheses of higher levels of residential segregation by income nor the emergence of an elite inner city (the reverse social status gradient). A wider spatial mismatch between the distribution of jobs and labour is confirmed by journey‐to‐work data, but primarily for inner city residents. In addition, these data suggest that, despite the rapid suburbanization of employment, a distinct multi‐nucleated urban form has not as yet emerged. Les publications dans le domaine de la littérature urbaine font état fréquemment d'une restructuration massive et recente de l'organisation des villes contemporaines. Le présent article examine cinq hypothèses différentes quoique reliées—hypothèses quant à l'issue du processus de restructuration et quant à l'émergence possible de nouvelles formes. L'analyse s'appuie sur les résultats rapportés dans un article précédent publié dans cette revue et utilisant des données sur les propriétés intra‐urbaines en changement dans les 27 agglomérations urbaines les plus importantes du Canada. Les résultats empiriques confirment fes hypothèses d'une décentralisation continue de la population et de l'emploi et d'un paysage social et ethnoculturel de plus en plus divers. Cependant les résultats n'appuientpas I'hypothèse d'une plus grande ségrégation résidentielle d'après le revenu ou encore l'hypothèse de l'émergence d'un centre urbain occupé par l'élite (le gradient inverse du statut social). Les donnees du trajet au travail confirment l'existence d'un déséquilibre spatial beaucoup plus grand entre la distribution des emplois et celle de la main d'euvre, ceci principalement chez les résidents du centre. De plus ces données suggèrent qu'une forme distincte de nuclei multiple n'est pas encore apparue malgré une décentralisation rapide de l'emploi en banlieue.

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Are New Urban Forms Emerging? Empirical Tests for Canadian Urban Areas

Bourne

1989

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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“…2 Following Warner's notion of stages, but employing a more impressionistic and tradi-tionally based historical method, Gilbert Stelter has described the following phases for urban Canada: mercantile, commercial, and industrial. 3 The current study takes different indicators -ones more directly associated with urban form and power -and arrives at conclusions contrary to those of Warner. Continuities in land use forms and the social power behind them can advance a chronological scheme for urban history in which, at certain levels, to focus on changes would be to by-pass important truths.…”

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Town Fathers and Urban Continuity: The Roots of Community Power and Physical Form in Hamilton, Upper Canada, in the 1830s

Doucet¹,

Weaver²

1989

Historical Essays on Upper Canada

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Cet article constitue à la fois une recherche empirique et une déclaration théorique. En opposition à une vision de l'histoire urbaine morcelée en périodes distinctes, il insiste sur le fait qu'il existe au contraire des éléments de continuité très importants. En effet, la continuité semble être l'élément fondamental de l'expérience urbaine au Canada, spécialement au cours des 19e et 20e siècles. L'aménagement de la ville, le rôle moteur des élites municipales, la concentration de la richesse et l'expression spatiale des caractéristiques économiques et sociales possèdent tous des racines profondes, allant même jusqu'aux premières décades dans le cas d'Hamilton, objet particulier de cette étude. Au niveau des sources matérielles, cet article utilise le rôle d'évaluation de 1839; cependant il met en garde contre des interprétations abusives ou erronées de ce document. Il soulève des questions à propos d'études américaines qui ont tenté des comparaisons sur la concentration des richesses à travers le temps. Cet article soutient que le facteur intangible d'accès au crédit était et demeure l'ingrédient vital de la richesse et du pouvoir Cet accès caractérise le Métropolitanisme, un thème historiographique qui fait ressortir la notion de continuité dans l'histoire urbaine canadienne.This article is both an empirical inquiry and a theoretical declaration. It stresses, in opposition to a view of urban history that presents fairly distinct periods, that there are very important elements of continuity. Indeed, continuity may be the essence of the urban experience in Canada, especially across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The layout of the city, the vital promotional actions of the civic elite, a concentration of wealth, and the spatial expression of economic and social traits all have deep rootsextending to the earliest decades in the case of Hamilton, which is the site for this study.In terms of source materials, this article employs an 1839 assessment manuscript, but warns that such material can be abused or misunderstood. Indeed, it raises questions about American studies that have attempted comparisons of concentrations of property wealth over time. The article argues that a vital ingredient of wealth and power was and is the intangible factor of access to credit. That access is a feature of metropolitanism, an historiographie theme which too indicates continuity in the history of urban Canada.

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“…Dyos, in the way that they explore connections between a society's culture and the form of its cities. Stelter, together with Artibise, co-edited four influential early volumes (Artibise and Stelter, 1979;Stelter and Artibise, 1982, 1984 that include chapters on various factors influencing the evolution of urban forms, such as town planning proposals (Bloomfield, 1982;Linteau, 1982); zoning and planning legislation (Moore, 1979;Smith, 1979); land speculation (Doucet, 1982); patterns of land development (Foran, 1979) and subdivision practices (Ganton, 1982).…”

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The study of urban form in Canada

Gilliland

Gauthier

2005

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This paper examines contributions to the study of urban form in Canada by French and English researchers working in a variety of disciplines, especially architecture, planning, geography, and history. Instead of discussing contributions purely along traditional linguistic or disciplinary lines, the authors use a novel classification scheme to identify and categorize significant works according to their particular epistemological perspective, before describing noteworthy contributions of various academic disciplines by key authors and research themes. The most significant contributions to the study of urban form in Canada have come from two largely isolated camps: first, architects/planners, mostly from Québec, who examine form as a relatively independent system and work in the tradition of the so-called ‘Italian school’ of process typology; and secondly, predominantly anglophone urban and historical geographers who deal with built forms and urban morphogenesis as a product of external forces. Recent work suggests that the ‘two solitudes’ may be coming together.

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Shaping the Urban Landscape: Aspects of the Canadian City-Building Process

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Are New Urban Forms Emerging? Empirical Tests for Canadian Urban Areas

Are New Urban Forms Emerging? Empirical Tests for Canadian Urban Areas

Town Fathers and Urban Continuity: The Roots of Community Power and Physical Form in Hamilton, Upper Canada, in the 1830s

The study of urban form in Canada

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