Author: Max Fora
Publisher: Au Pre
Keywords: calgary, press, sprawl, urban, discourses, expansive
Number of Pages: 276
Published: 2009-04-02
ISBN-10: 1897425139
ISBN-13: 9781897425138

A groundbreaking study of urban sprawl in Calgary, "Expansive Discourses" looks at the city’s development after the Second World War. The interactions of land developers and the local government influenced how the pattern grew: developers met market demands and optimized profits by building houses as efficiently as possible, while the city had to consider wider planning constraints and infrastructure costs.In "Expansive Discourses", Foran examines the complexity of their debates from a historical perspective, why each party acted as it did, and where each can be criticized.About the Auth

Authors:Rachel Bray, Imke Gooskens, Lauren Kahn, Sue Mose
Publisher: Human Sciences Research Council
Keywords: post, apartheid, cape, town, adolescence, childhood, new, south, africa, growing
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 1969-12-31
ISBN-10: 0796923132
ISBN-13: 9780796923134

How has the end of apartheid affected the experiences of South African children and adolescents? This pioneering study provides a compelling account of the realities of everyday life for the first generation of children and adolescents growing up in a democratic South Africa. The authors examine the lives of young people across historically divided communities at home, in the neighbourhoods where they live, and at school. The picture that emerges is one of both diversity and similarity as young people navigate their way through a complex landscape that is unevenly ’post’-apartheid. Historicall

Author: Dirk Hoerder
Publisher: UBC Pre
Keywords: space, time, across, changing, selves
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2010-08-01
ISBN-10: 1897425724
ISBN-13: 9781897425725

To Know Our Many Selves profiles the history of Canadian studies, which began as early as the 1840s with the Study of Canada. Dirk Hoerder discusses this comprehensive examination of culture by highlighting its unique interdisciplinary approach, which included both sociological and political angles. In later years, as the study of other ethnicities was added to the cultural story of Canada, a solid foundaton was formed for the nation’s master narrative. Against this background Hoerder focuses on why Canadian studies may be used as a sound model for the study of other societies in a fram