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Suburban Planet. Making the World Urban from the Outside In
Full text linkBook Review by Pablo Mendez of Suburban Planet: Making the World Urban from the Outside In written by Roger Keil
Financing Infrastructure: Who Should Pay?
Full text linkBook Review by Garrett Mombourquette of Financing Infrastructure: Who Should Pay? edited by Richard M. Bird and Enid Slack
Helter-Shelter: Security, Legality, and an Ethic of Care in an Emergency Shelter
Full text linkBook Review by Jeannette Waegemakers Schiff of Helter-Shelter: Security, Legality, and an Ethic of Care in an Emergency Shelter written by Prashan Ranasinghe
The Fiscal Impact of Urban Growth on Municipalities
Full text linkIn this paper, panel regression analysis is used to examine the fiscal impact of urban growth on per-capita or per-household expenditures of providing municipal services in the province of Ontario, Canada. Three variables are used to measure growth: households, population and assessment. Using a panel data set for 68 municipalities, we find that for the most part, urban growth has no effect on per-capita or per-household expenditures. The policy implications of these results are discussed
Canadian Municipalities and Services for Immigrants: A Toronto Case Study
Full text linkThe formal role of municipal governments in decision-making about immigration and settlement policies is limited. The Canada Ontario Immigration Agreement (COIA) represented an important step toward more effective collaboration between federal, municipal and provincial governments in this policy area. We investigate the circumstances that led to the inclusion of the City of Toronto as a signatory to the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in COIA as well as how this tripartite agreement affected intergovernmental and multi-stakeholder partnerships. Although the MOU encouraged interaction between federal, provincial and municipal governments; the municipal role remained consultative. Our analysis suggests that the incorporation of municipalities in decision-making about settlement policies is limited by the practices of Canadian federalism and planning ideologies that emphasize municipal responsibility for an undifferentiated public
La symbiose de la planification et de la gouvernance territoriales: Le cas du Grand Montréal
Full text linkCet article postule, vu la transition simultanée de la planification et de la gouvernance territoriales de la verticalité à l’horizontalité et leur association toujours plus étroite au sein de la fabrique politique urbaine, qu’elles évoluent dans une relation symbiotique en cours de renforcement et que chacune constitue désormais un instrument de l’autre. Il montre qu’un récent exercice de débat public sur l’aménagement du Grand Montréal a été éclipsé par un marchandage politique et une instrumentalisation de la planification territoriale visant à construire une capacité de gouvernance territoriale. Il révèle qu’en réciproque, l’inscription de cet épisode dans une optique de gouvernance territoriale par la concertation des parties prenantes mobilisées a aidé à construire une capacité de planification territoriale longuement attendue pour le Grand Montréal. Il invite en conclusion à approfondir la recherche urbaine sur ces instruments, leur relation et leurs effets sur les dynamiques politiques et sociales des régions métropolitaines contemporaines
A Place to Stand on Your Own Two Feet: The Role of Community Housing in Immigrant Integration in Montréal, Quebec
Full text linkResearch on the housing conditions of immigrant households has tended to focus on their spatial distribution in metropolitan areas, the discrimination they face in the search for housing, and their housing trajectories, in particular their access to homeownership. Little research has been done on what role, if any, housing plays in their integration in their host society. This research tests the hypothesis that community housing, in which tenants participate actively in the management of their buildings, gives immigrants social contacts and skills that help in their integration. The authors conducted interviews and focus groups with renters, homeowners and housing specialists in order to understand better what respondents understand by “integration” and to investigate the possible causal relationship between life in community housing and social integration. The findings both support and contradict the original hypothesis and are the basis for recommendations for community housing developers. The most important lesson to be drawn from the research is that participation in in-house activities in community housing are not necessarily a positive factor in social integration—it may actually be perceived negatively by some immigrants—and are clearly secondary to questions of housing quality and affordability
Immigrants and Refugees in the Housing Markets of Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver, 2011
Full text linkNew data based on a linkage between the Immigrant Landing File and the 2011 National Household Survey are used to build a picture of immigrants and refugees in the housing markets of Canada’s three largest metropolitan areas. While most newcomers find it a challenge to secure affordable and adequate housing, Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver have attracted different immigrant populations who are presented with distinct economic conditions and housing markets. As a result, there are some common patterns in housing consumption among immigrants across the three cities, but there are quite profound differences as well. The situation is particularly variegated when we examine the outcomes for specific immigrant admission categories and visible minority groups. In general, immigrants reach high levels of home ownership, especially in Toronto and Vancouver, and probably have a significant impact on the housing markets of the two cities. But there are also many who cannot find a comfortable foothold in the housing market. The experiences of refugees in the three cities are highlighted, and we find that, in the long term, refugees approach the total population in terms of home ownership levels and, also, the ratio of individuals under financial stress in the housing market. This rather positive story has only become apparent because of our access to new data, and suggests that we should reconsider the commonplace understanding of refugees as representing a long-term burden on Canadian society