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Growing urban economies : innovation, creativity, and governance in Canadian city-regions
\"Even in a globalizing, knowledge-based economy, cities remain engines of growth, innovation, and diversity. Increasingly, they are also active participants in the creation of the social and political conditions necessary to create a thriving community. The Innovation, Creativity, and Governance in Canadian City-Regions series is a focused analysis of how developments at the local and regional level affect these three key determinants of future prosperity. Growing Urban Economies summarizes its conclusions in a single volume that presents an overview of the evidence and its implications. A rich and nuanced analysis of the interplay of social, political, and economic factors in thirteen Canadian city-regions, large and small, this collection integrates research focusing on innovation, creativity and talent-retention, and governance in order to understand the distinctive experience of each region. A valuable cross-section of city-region development in a variety of circumstances, Growing Urban Economies offers important insights into the way in which local conditions affect urban economies around the world.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Small Business and the City
InSmall Business and the City, Rafael Gomez, Andre Isakov, and Matt Semansky highlight the power of small-scale entrepreneurship to transform local neighbourhoods and the cities they inhabit. Studying the factors which enable small businesses to survive and thrive, they highlight the success of a Canadian concept which has spread worldwide: the Business Improvement Area (BIA). BIAs allow small-scale entrepreneurs to pool their resources with like-minded businesses, becoming sources of urban rejuvenation, magnets for human talent, and incubators for local innovation in cities around the globe.
Small Business and the Cityalso analyses the policies necessary to support this urban vitality, describing how cities can encourage and support locally owned independent businesses. An inspiring account of the dynamism of urban life,Small Business and the Cityintroduces a new \"main street agenda\" for the twenty-first century city.
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Governing urban economies : innovation and inclusion in Canadian city-regions
Governing Urban Economies is the first detailed scholarly examination of relations among governmental and community-based actors in Canadian city-regions. Comparing patterns of municipal-community relations and federal-provincial interactions across city-regions, this volume tracks the ways in which urban coalitions tackle complex economic and social challenges. Featuring an inter-disciplinary group of established and up-and-coming scholars, this collection breaks new ground in the Canadian urban politics literature and will appeal to urbanists working in a range of national contexts.\"--pub. desc.
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The Feel of the City
At the start of the twentieth century, the modern metropolis was a riot of sensation. City dwellers lived in an environment filled with smoky factories, crowded homes, and lively thoroughfares. Sights, sounds, and smells flooded their senses, while changing conceptions of health and decorum forced many to rethink their most banal gestures, from the way they negotiated speeding traffic to the use they made of public washrooms.
The Feel of the Cityexposes the sensory experiences of city-dwellers in Montreal and Brussels at the turn of the century and the ways in which these shaped the social and cultural significance of urban space. Using the experiences of municipal officials, urban planners, hygienists, workers, writers, artists, and ordinary citizens, Nicolas Kenny explores the implications of the senses for our understanding of modernity.
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URBANIZATION AND STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION
We examine urbanization using new data that allow us to track the evolution of population in rural and urban areas in the United States from 1880 to 2000. We find a positive correlation between initial population density and subsequent population growth for intermediate densities, which increases the dispersion of the population density distribution over time. We use theory and empirical evidence to show this pattern of population growth is the result of differences in agriculture's initial share of employment across population densities, combined with structural transformation that shifts employment away from agriculture.
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The frontier of digital opportunity
Studies of ‘smart cities’ in Canada primarily focus on large cities but not small, rural and remote communities. As a result, we have a limited understanding of the incentive structures for smaller, remote and rural communities to pursue smart city development. This knowledge deficit is concerning, since the introduction of technology can hold a number of unique benefits for these communities, including easier connections to the rest of Canada and large urban centres, reputation building, improved service delivery and enhanced opportunities for residents. Drawing upon localised forms of knowledge creation, policy development theories, adoption and local competition literature and primary interviews with private and public officials, we examine the challenges and opportunities of ‘smart city’ implementation through case studies of small and rural municipalities in Annapolis Valley in Nova Scotia and a remote community, Iqaluit, Nunavut. We find that collaboration is essential for rural and remote pursuit of smart city development and is necessary to counteract the limitations of capacity, scale and digital divides. Challenges aside, however, the primary rationale for adoption of smart city technology remains the same regardless of size: enhanced quality of life for residents and sustained community health.
加拿大对“智慧城市”的研究主要集中在大城市，而不是小城市、农村和偏远社区。因此，我们对小型、偏远和农村社区追求智慧城市发展的激励结构了解有限。这种知识不足令人担忧，因为技术的引入可以为这些社区带来许多独特的好处，包括更容易与加拿大其他地区和大型城市中心联系、建立声誉、改善服务提供和增加居民的机会。借助本地化形式的知识创造、政策发展理论、采纳和当地竞争文献以及对私营和公共官员的初步访谈，我们通过对新斯科舍省安纳波利斯谷的小城镇和农村城镇以及努纳武特省伊卡路特的一个偏远社区的案例研究，审视了实施“智慧城市”的挑战和机遇。我们发现，协作对于农村和偏远地区追求智慧城市发展至关重要，对于抵消容量、规模和数字鸿沟的限制也是必要的。然而，撇开挑战不谈，无论规模如何，采用智慧城市技术的主要理由都是一样的：提高居民的生活质量和持续的社区健康。
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Rural Tourism Development
This book of cases about rural tourism development in Canada demonstrates the different ways that tourism has been positioned as a local response to political and economic shifts in a nation that is itself undergoing rapid change, both continentally and globally.
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A large-scale assessment of lakes reveals a pervasive signal of land use on bacterial communities
Lakes play a pivotal role in ecological and biogeochemical processes and have been described as “sentinels” of environmental change. Assessing “lake health” across large geographic scales is critical to predict the stability of their ecosystem services and their vulnerability to anthropogenic disturbances. The LakePulse research network is tasked with the assessment of lake health across gradients of land use on a continental scale. Bacterial communities are an integral and rapidly responding component of lake ecosystems, yet large-scale responses to anthropogenic activity remain elusive. Here, we assess the ecological impact of land use on bacterial communities from over 200 lakes covering more than 660,000 km
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across Eastern Canada. In addition to community variation between ecozones, land use across Eastern Canada also appeared to alter diversity, community composition, and network structure. Specifically, increasing anthropogenic impact within the watershed lowered diversity. Likewise, community composition was significantly correlated with agriculture and urban development within a watershed. Interaction networks showed decreasing complexity and fewer keystone taxa in impacted lakes. Moreover, we identified potential indicator taxa of high or low lake water quality. Together, these findings point to detectable bacterial community changes of largely unknown consequences induced by human activity within lake watersheds.
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Stacking functions: identifying motivational frames guiding urban agriculture organizations and businesses in the United States and Canada
While a growing body of scholarship identifies urban agriculture’s broad suite of benefits and drivers, it remains unclear how motivations to engage in urban agriculture (UA) interrelate or how they differ across cities and types of organizations. In this paper, we draw on survey responses collected from more than 250 UA organizations and businesses from 84 cities across the United States and Canada. Synthesizing the results of our quantitative analysis of responses (including principal components analysis), qualitative analysis of textual data excerpted from open-ended responses, and a review of existing literature, we describe six motivational frames that appear to guide organizations and businesses in their UA practice: Entrepreneurial, Sustainable Development, Educational, Eco-Centric, DIY Secessionist, and Radical. Identifying how practitioners stack functions and frame their work is a first step in helping to differentiate the diverse and often contradictory efforts transforming urban food environments. We demonstrate that a wide range of objectives drive UA and that political orientations and discourses differ by geography, organizational type and size, and funding regime. These six paradigms provide a basic framework for understanding UA that can guide more in-depth studies of the gap between intentions and outcomes, while helping link historically and geographically specific insights to wider social and political economic processes.
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Strengthening Climate Resilience Through Urban Policy: A Mixed-Method Framework with Case Study Insights
While climate resilience is a growing priority in urban planning, limited attention has been given to the procedural and governance mechanisms needed to effectively integrate resilience into policy development. This study presents a comprehensive policy analysis aimed at enhancing climate resilience, using the city of Kamloops, Canada, as a case study. A policy evaluation framework was developed, encompassing four dimensions and 20 indicators, to assess 11 policies and bylaws in Kamloops. The evaluation yielded a moderate score of 0.559 out of 1, revealing both existing strengths and critical gaps in the city’s climate resilience strategies. Key challenges identified include policy inflexibility, the absence of clear climate adaptation goals, insufficient emphasis on education and research, the lack of long-term projections and risk assessments, and implementation gaps such as unclear timelines, responsibilities, and funding mechanisms. To validate these findings, interviews with city staff from multiple departments provided further insights into governance barriers and opportunities for policy enhancement. Beyond Kamloops, this study offers a scalable and adaptable framework for cities worldwide seeking to integrate resilience into their urban planning policies. By addressing governance and procedural challenges, cities can strengthen their capacity to mitigate climate risks, enhance sustainability, and build long-term urban resilience.
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