Urban Futures for Central Canada: Perspectives on Forecasting Urban Growth and Form (Heritage)

Urban problems are now a dominent social issue: the essays in this volume consider the direction some of these problems may take in Central Canada.

Urban problems are now a dominant social issue: the essays in this volume consider the direction some of these problems may take in Central Canada. Three broad themes are discussed: forecasting (a spectrum of methodologies and urban forecasts); assessing the consequences of these forecasts at two levels (the growth of cities as an urban system and the growth and form of individual cities or urban regions); and assessing the role of changes in public policy. Specific topics include forecasting methodology in a spatial context, population and employment growth, migration, transportation, innovations, communication linkages, regional economic structure, economic fluctuations, the effects of public policy controls within a system of cities, land use and redevelopment, household mobility and social change, the spread of urban fields, and communities and neighbourhoods within cities. 

Contents 5 Acknowledgments 7 Introduction 11 I. Forecasts of urban growth 31 II. Growth and the urban system 103 III. Growth and urban form 217 APPENDIX A. Population forecasts for townships in Ontario, 1971-2001 323 APPENDIX B. Population forecasts for cities in Central Canada, 1971-2001 337