Urban & Regional

First published in 1981, the essays in After the Developers look to the future of Canada's cities at a time when the great urban boom of the 1960s and '70s began to lose its relentless thrust.

Looking to the government economic policies that shaped post-war growth, they analyze the fundamental changes that altered Canadian cities so quickly and dram …

Who really is in charge of our rapidly changing cities? Who are the individuals, dynasties and cartels that finance and provide so much of the impetus for our bleak, alienating urban landscape?

Investigative reporter Henry Aubin spent almost two years trying to find out. He sifted through musty files for hundreds of hours and interviewed more than 4 …

Harold Crooks chronicles the history of waste management, showing how an ideology of privatization set the stage for the local refuse collection business to become a global corporate enterprise.

The author tracks the emergence of the multinational firms that dominate the business and examines how governments fail to cope with the waste disposal nee …

Canada in the twenty-first century is a place of growth and expansion. Cities like Vancouver and Toronto have become word class destinations for business and tourism. Meanwhile, smaller, less prominent communities face changes of different sorts, as residents depart for the opportunities present in our country’s largest cities. Nowhere is this mo …

Published in 1976, Land and Urban Development--originally prepared for Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation--is the first comprehensive study of the land development and housing industry in Canada.

It details the ownership of major contemporary development corporations, analyzes the massive land banks these corporations controlled around 21 Cana …