Factors and influences on the Canadian city / prepared by the Centre for Future Studies in Housing and Living Environments.: NH15-693/1991E-PDF

"This background paper is the first phase of a larger project, "Vision of a Sustainable Canadian City of the Future". The project will assemble a panel of experts to develop and explore alternative futures of a sustainable city. The background paper will contribute to the main project by evaluating the historical evolution of cities in the context of social and economic functions. Influences and trends will then be explored to establish the needs and parameters for the future. Some of the trends covered include: the shift to a post industrial society, global nature of cities, and public attitudes. The panel of experts will be brought together to articulate their individual ideas of a potential sustainableCanadian city into individual thinkpieces"--Introd.

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Publication information
Department/Agency Centre for Future Studies in Housing and Living Environments (Canada)
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.
Title Factors and influences on the Canadian city / prepared by the Centre for Future Studies in Housing and Living Environments.
Publication type Monograph
Language [English]
Format Electronic
Electronic document
Note(s) Digitized edition from print [produced by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation].
Includes bibliographic references.
Publishing information [Ottawa] :Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, c1991.
Description i, 35 p. : charts.
Catalogue number
  • NH15-693/1991E-PDF
Subject terms Urban development
Urban planning
Sustainable development
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