This article which covers thirty years of central-area change in the City of Kitchener, Ontario focuses on the initial impetus that led to the preparation of large-scale plans, on the down-scaling and partial implementation of those plans, and on the current decision-making environment that allows for more public participation than existed in the past. The local political scene was dominated by a well-organized coalition of interest groups promoting urban renewal in the central business district, yet this coalition was unable to achieve its objectives. The situation is attributed to suburbanization and related shifts in political and economic power at the municipal level; the vulnerability of municipal administrations to senior governments'...
This article examines the pivotal role played by the unelected Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) ...
Most histories of urban planning, urban politics, and the development of the welfare state have larg...
Where there is a central government with an exclusive mandate over municipalities, along with a stat...
Entre 1900 et les années 20, période de la première grande expansion urbaine ce sont les municipalit...
During the late 1960s and early 1970s the Canadian government effected a turnabout in its urban rene...
Urban unrest is an increasingly significant aspect of everyday life and is therefore a developing co...
Beginning in the mid-1990s, municipal amalgamations were implemented by provincial legislation in Mo...
grantor: University of TorontoThis thesis explains why the Toronto city-region underwent a...
Entre 1912 et 1925, les municipalités ontariennes de Kitchener et de Waterloo ont connu, en matière ...
Between 1997 and 2002, homeowners in various parts of Los Angeles sought to secede from the City. At...
This article provides an account of the community strategies that pushed the Ontario provincial gove...
This paper outlines how the devolution of power from federal and provincial governments to municipal...
Downtown revitalization is clearly in the minds of many communities throughout North America. The d...
The evolution of the regional city in North America : the case of Toronto. In western post-industr...
This article examines Toronto’s community councils, a post-amalgamation creation meant to buffer the...
This article examines the pivotal role played by the unelected Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) ...
Most histories of urban planning, urban politics, and the development of the welfare state have larg...
Where there is a central government with an exclusive mandate over municipalities, along with a stat...
Entre 1900 et les années 20, période de la première grande expansion urbaine ce sont les municipalit...
During the late 1960s and early 1970s the Canadian government effected a turnabout in its urban rene...
Urban unrest is an increasingly significant aspect of everyday life and is therefore a developing co...
Beginning in the mid-1990s, municipal amalgamations were implemented by provincial legislation in Mo...
grantor: University of TorontoThis thesis explains why the Toronto city-region underwent a...
Entre 1912 et 1925, les municipalités ontariennes de Kitchener et de Waterloo ont connu, en matière ...
Between 1997 and 2002, homeowners in various parts of Los Angeles sought to secede from the City. At...
This article provides an account of the community strategies that pushed the Ontario provincial gove...
This paper outlines how the devolution of power from federal and provincial governments to municipal...
Downtown revitalization is clearly in the minds of many communities throughout North America. The d...
The evolution of the regional city in North America : the case of Toronto. In western post-industr...
This article examines Toronto’s community councils, a post-amalgamation creation meant to buffer the...
This article examines the pivotal role played by the unelected Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) ...
Most histories of urban planning, urban politics, and the development of the welfare state have larg...
Where there is a central government with an exclusive mandate over municipalities, along with a stat...