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GEOG 311: Canadian Urban Development (Rev. A1) Report a Broken Link

While Canada is often portrayed as vastly unpopulated, it is actually a highly urbanized country: more than 80% of Canadians live in urban places. GEOG 311: Canadian Urban Development explores the people, institutions, and processes that shape urban places in Canada. While its focus is Canadian urbanization, it contextualizes this by considering global processes of economic, cultural, and social change that impact Canadian urban residents. Students will be introduced to various social, political, and planning theories used to make sense of urban change and structure in order to build knowledge about the general characteristics of urbanization and of urban places in Canada.

Unit 1

What Is the Urban?
All of the readings for this unit can be found in your print Reading File.

Unit 2

The History of Urbanization in Canada
All of the readings for this unit can be found in your print Reading File.

Unit 3

Urban Places in Canada Today
Keil, R., & Kipfer, S. (2003). The urban experience of globalization. In W. Clement & L. F. Vosko (Eds.), Changing Canada: Political economy as transformation (pp. 335–362). Montreal, PQ; Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
Other readings for this unit can be found in your Reading File.

Unit 4

Urban Policy
All of the readings for this unit can be found in your print Reading File.

Unit 5

Urban Governance
Gillmor, D., with Bridgman, L., Balkissoon, D., Grace, G., Hunt, K., McClelland, S., et al. (2005). Terminal Velocity. Toronto Life, 39(2), 54–79.
Other readings for this unit can be found in your print Reading File.

Unit 6

Urban Planning
All of the readings for this unit can be found in your print Reading File.

Unit 7

Economic Restructuring
Raffan, J. (2004). Four O One Liner. Canadian Geographic 124(5), 62–72.
Walton, D. (2007, February 27). Fort McMoney: Can its mayor put the brakes on the boom? The Globe and Mail, A9.
Other readings for this unit can be found in your Reading File.

Unit 8

Housing
Rose, D. (2004). Discourses and experiences of social mix in gentrifying neighbourhoods: A Montreal case study. Canadian Journal of Urban Research, 13(2), 278–316.
Marr, G. (2005, April 27). House prices skyrocket 50% in 10 years: Study. National Post, A4.
Armstrong, J. (2005, April 29). Homeless in Vancouver: Number living on the streets has more than doubled over the past three years. Globe and Mail, A17.
Other readings for this unit can be found in your Reading File.

Unit 9

Urban Political Ecology
Grant, J. L., & Bohdanow, S. (2008). New urbanism developments in Canada: A survey. Journal of Urbanism, 1(2), 109–127.
Curran, D. (2003). A case for smart growth. Vancouver: West Coast Environmental Law.
Kill, J. (2006). 10 things you should know about tree ‘offsets.’ NewInternationalist. e-Journal AU Database (PDF—includes visual elements)
e-Journal AU Database (Full Text only)
Other readings for this unit can be found in your Reading File.