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Beyond the global city : understanding and planning for the diversity of Ontario / edited by Gordon Nelson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nelson, Gordon, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Regional planning--Ontario.
- Regional planning.
- Ontario--Geography.
- Ontario.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (475 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Looking beyond the smoke screen of Toronto's rapid and costly growth to re-envision sustainable planning in Ontario's neglected regions.
- Contents:
- The Origin of Ontario's Georegions: Pre-European Times to the 1850s / Gordon Nelson and Michael Troughton
- The Industrial Era and the Further Development of Ontario's Georegions: The Railroads, 1850s-1900s / Gordon Nelson and Michael Troughton
- Sweetwater Seas and Shores: Waters and Coasts of the Great Lakes Georegion / Patrick L. Lawrence
- Toronto: Putting the Georegion in Perspective / Lucy M. Sportza
- The Carolinian Canada Georegion: Farmland, Forests, and Freeways in Conflict / Stewart Hilts
- The Huron Georegion: Rurality in an Urbanizing Province / Wayne Caldwell
- Peterborough: A Georegion in Transition? / Alison Bain and John Marsh
- Georgian Bay, Muskoka, and Haliburton: More than Cottage Country? / Nik Luka and Nina-Marie Lister
- The Kingston Georegion: Going "Glocal" In a Globalizing World / Brian S. Osborne
- The Ottawa Valley Georegion / Mark Seasons
- Learning from the Past, Assessing the Future: A Geo-historical Overview of Northeastern Ontario / Raynald Harvey Lemelin and Rhonda Koster
- Northwestern Ontario and the Lakehead Georegion: A Region Apart? / Margaret E. Johnston and R.J. Payne
- The Intersection of Landscape, Legislation, and Local Perceptions in Constructing the Niagara Escarpment as a Distinct Georegion / Susan Preston
- The Changing Natural Heritage of Ontario in Broad Perspective / Stephen D. Murphy
- Changing Cultural Landscapes of Ontario Robert Shipley Retrospect and Prospect / Gordon Nelson.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780773541764
- 0773541764
- 9780773588080
- 0773588086
- 9780773539860
- 0773539867
- OCLC:
- 811411367
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