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Social Science Poverty & Homelessness

A Social Geography of Canada

edited by Guy M. Robinson

Publisher
Dundurn
Initial publish date
Dec 2013
Category
Poverty & Homelessness, General, Essays
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781550020922
    Publish Date
    Jan 1991
    List Price
    $29.99
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781459725836
    Publish Date
    Dec 2013
    List Price
    $14.99

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This collection of essays is published as a tribute to the eminent Canadian scholar, J. Wreford Watson. The studies focus on subjects which formed the basis of his life's work -- the changing character of Canadian landscape and society, and the urbanization of that society, including aspects of its historical evolution, its present spacial forms and current social issues.

This is a book about people and places. It is broadly concerned with "who lives where?" and has several contributions which are drawn from a human ecology tradition and concern for hard data. At the same time, recognition is given to the fact that behind the maps of social distributions lie the lives of everyday people and the unseen forces shaping those lives.

In addition, the diversity of Canadian society is recognized in essays dealing with the development of distinctive ethnic areas in the major cities, rural depopulation and the increasing impress of government policies and planning measures.

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Contributor Notes

Guy M. Robinson is senior Lecturer in human geography at the University of Edinburgh. He has degrees from London and Oxford universities and has held visiting positions at the universities of Regina, Canterbury, Melbourne, and Queensland. He is author of Agricultural Change: Geographical Essays on British Agriculture and Conflict and Change in the Countryside

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