Alan F. J. Artibise

The Usable Urban Past: Planning and Politics in the Modern Canadian City

This collection of original essays serves both the historians and geographers who seek a deeper understanding of Canadas urban past, and the planners, politicians and citizens who seek to preserve or to change their cities today.

Power and place : Canadian urban development in the North American context

Western historians continue to seek new ways of understanding the particular mixture of physical territory, human actions, outside influences, and unique expectations that has made the North American West what it is today. This collection of twelve essays tackles the subject of power and place from several angles--Indians and non-Indians, race and gender, environment and economy--to gain insight into major forces at work during two centuries of western history.The essays, related to one another by their concern with how power is exercised in, over, and by western places, cover a wide range of times and topics, from 18th-century Spanish New Mexico to 19th-century British Columbia to 20th-century Sun Valley and Los Angeles. They encompass analyses of the concept and rhetoric of race, theoretical speculations on gender and powerlessness, and insights on the causes of current environmental crises.

Shaping the urban landscape : aspects of the Canadian city-building process

This is a collection of essays focusing on the process of city-building in Canada. The authors weigh the relative broad social, economic and technological trends as they attempt to explain the shaping of this urban landscape.