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Canadian Cities in Transition: Local Through Global Perspectives (3rd ed.) edited by Trudi Bunting and Pierre Filion, Oxford University Press, Don Mills, 2006, xi + 532 pp. paper $61.95 (ISBN 0-19-542219-8)
This is a completely revised edition of a book that first appeared 15 years ago, and has become a Canadian classic. Fourteen of the 27 chapters are new, and all the pre-existing chapters have been updated, some rewritten and three of them have a new co-author. The chapters deal with 'continentalism', the urban system, the effects of globalization, transport and communications, infrastructure, social spaces, the impacts of changing lifestyles, urban and suburban downtowns, the inner city, suburbs, the city's countryside, employment, housing, the retail environment, city politics, planning, sustainability, immigration, homelessness and the changing meanings of...
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