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Urban affairs in Alberta / by David G. Bettison, John K. Kenward, and Larrie Taylor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bettison, D. G. (David G.)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cities and towns--Alberta.
- Cities and towns.
- Sociology, Urban--Alberta.
- Sociology, Urban.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (542 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Edmonton, Alta. : Published for the Human Resources Research Council of Alberta by the University of Alberta Press, 1975.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- No description
- Contents:
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Chapter 1. The past and the Generation of Basic Issues, 1880 to 1935
- A Glimpse at the Distant Past: Setting the Pattern for the Future
- Early Local Government
- The Early Rural-Urban Conflict, 1881 to 1920
- The Later Rural-Urban Conflict, 1914 to 1935
- The Advantage of Urban Concentration
- Town-Planning and the Basic Issues to 1935
- Chapter 2. Social Credit and Urban Policy, 1935 to 1953
- The General Scene
- The Decentralization of Decision
- Metropolitan Pre-eminence, 1945 to 1950
- Orderly development
- Chapter 3. Disorderly Practice Within Social Credit Urban Policy, 1950 to 1972
- The Metropolitan Periphery
- Metropolitan Planning and Finance
- Recent Political Policy and Practice
- Recent Planning Policy and Practice
- Chapter 4. Edmonton and Environs, 1960 to 1972
- Existing Regional Policies and Plans
- Subdivision Servicing and Residential Land Use Staging
- The Outline Plan Process and its Aftermath
- Local Municipal Attempts to Cope
- Fort Saskatchewan
- Leduc
- St. Albert
- Sherwood Park
- Spruce Grove
- Stony Plain
- Collective Attempts to Cope
- Edmonton City's Boundary Adjustments
- The Beverly Annexation, 1961
- The Jasper Place Annexation, 1964
- The Hanson Report, 1965-68
- Recent Annexations, 1968-71
- 1. West Jasper Place
- 2. West Jasper Place (Bolster)
- 3. Alldritt
- 4. BACM
- 5. Mill Woods
- Some Further Proposals
- Summary and Discussion
- Municipal Finance and City Growth
- Capital Expenditures
- Capital Revenues
- Running Expenditures and Revenues
- Discussion
- Chapter 5. Calgary and Urban Policies, 1970 to 1972
- City Politics
- The City's Budgets, 1971 and 1972
- The Planners' Search for "Rationality," and its Constraints
- Housing and Developers
- Transportation and the By-Law Charade.
- Calgary and its Region
- Municipal Competition and Regional Planning
- Regional Planning: Conflicts and Compromise
- The MacEwan Glens Affair
- Conclusions
- The Relative Inconsequence of Provincial Decisions
- Local Autonomy and Encapsulation
- Planning and the Political Process
- The Potential Roles of the Provincial Government
- The Implications for Research
- Bibliography.
- Notes:
- "Volume 2 of a 2-volume work on urbanization in Canada. Volume 1 appears under the title The politics of Canadian urban development."
- Includes bibliography: p. 519-529.
- ISBN:
- 1-4593-0419-5
- 1-4175-9192-7
- OCLC:
- 243596019
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