Shaping the urban landscape : aspects of the Canadian city-building process / edited by Gilbert A. Stelter and Alan F.J. Artibise.

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Cover; Contents; I: INTRODUCTION; II: URBAN GROWTH STRATEGIES; III: EVOLVING URBAN FORM; Notes on Editors; Notes on Contributors; 1. The City Building Process in Canada; 2. Ideology and Political Economy in Urban Growth: Guelph, 1827-1927; 3. Montreal Banks and the Urban Development of Quebec, 1840-1914; 4. Staples and the New Industrialism in the Growth of Post-Confederation Halifax; 5. In Pursuit of Growth: Municipal Boosterism and Urban Development in the Canadian Prairie West, 1871-1913; 6. Physical Expansion and Socio-Cultural Segregation in Quebec City, 1765-1840

7. Speculation and the Physical Expansion of Mid-Nineteenth Century Hamilton8. The subdivision Process in Toronto, 1851-1883; 9. Building Halifax, 1841-1871; 10. Reshaping the Urban Landscape? Town Planning Efforts in Kitchener/Waterloo, 1912-1926; 11. The Development and Beautification of an Industrial City: Maisonneuve, 1883-1918; 12. From Land Assembly to Social Maturity: The Suburban Life of Westdale (Hamilton), Ontario, 1911-1951; 13. Politics, Space, and Trolleys: Mass Transit in Early Twentieth-Century Toronto; 14. ""C.P.R. Town"": The City-Building Process in Vancouver, 1860-1914

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