City Lives and City Forms: Critical Research and Canadian Urbanism.(Review) (book review)
Urban History Review, October, 2000 by Jackson, John N.
Caulfield, Jon, and Peake, Linda, eds. City Lives and City Forms: Critical Research and Canadian Urbanism. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996. Pp. x, 347. Maps. $60.00 cloth, $21.95 paper.
"Key current themes in the urban field are explored through a representative cross-section of the preoccupations and perspectives of 'critical urban researchers' in Canada." And, as "urban researchers are sometimes less conversant than they prefer with the breadth of interest and activity in the field, [the book seeks] to familiarize researchers in different branches of urban study with a least a fragment of the work of their colleagues."
In pursuit of these two aims, fifteen disparate essays from universities across Canada provide the core of the book. They...
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