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The Changing Canadian Metropolis

其他書名	A Public Policy Perspective
出版	Institute of Governmental Studies Press, University of California, Berkeley, 1994
ISBN	08777234439780877723448
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=1GSOqYEb1b0C&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Students of Canadian urbanism have paid less attention to the influence of public policy on the development and character of urban places than they have to the influence of economic forces, technological change, geography, culture, and language. They also tend to treat large cities in isolation from the metropolitan areas with which their fates are intertwined. In this two-volume study, public policy and metropolitan areas are the principal matters of interest. Volume One looks at linkages between public policy and changes occurring within or impinging on Canada's system of metropolitan areas and its 25 individual components. It considers changes in the Canadian economy and in the forces that drive it, in the nature of work and workplaces, in the participation of women in the labour force, in the social composition of metropolitan populations, and in public attitudes to the environment. Volume Two deals with aspects of urban policymaking at the federal, provincial, municipal and (in some areas) metropolitan or regional levels of government. It shows that policies adopted by all levels of government can have important consequences for metropolitan area development and social character, even though the Canadian constitution clearly makes provincial governments responsible for municipal institutions and local services.