Intensification and Sprawl: Residential Density Trajectories in Canada's Largest Metropolitan Regions

Urban Geography

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 541-569

  Filion, Pierre ^a   Bunting, Trudi ^a   Pavlic, Dejan ^a   Langlois, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Density gradients; Metropolitan planning; Metropolitan regions; Metropolitan trajectories; Urban intensification

Indexed keywords

DECENTRALIZATION; LAND USE; METROPOLITAN AREA; POST-WAR; TRANSPORTATION POLICY; URBAN GEOGRAPHY; URBAN PLANNING;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; MONTREAL; ONTARIO [CANADA]; QUEBEC [CANADA]; TORONTO; VANCOUVER;

EID: 77952205440     PISSN: 02723638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0272-3638.31.4.541     Document Type: Article

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