The Local Culture of Property: A Comparative History of Housing Tenure in Montreal and Toronto

Choko, Marc H.; Harris, Richard

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8306.1990.tb00004.x

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“…The ideal was no longer the socially cohesive community as it was connected to the scenes of the New England village (Meinig, 1986, p. 156) or Main Street (Meinig, 1979, p. 167), but, to quote Jackson (1985) again, a "private wonderland walled off from the rest of the world" (p. 58). Hence, it also reinforces the chain of arguments proposed here that Choko and Harris (1990) interpret house ownership as symbolizing the American virtue of self-help even today. They see in it a democratic provision for reasonable security and a good profit for small investors.…”

Section: Political Decentralizationsupporting

confidence: 79%

The Meaning of Protestant-Calvinist Imagery in Urban America

Hardinghaus

2008

Space and Culture

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Inspired by Max Weber's Protestant Ethic, and applying a social-geographical framework, this discourse analysis inquires into the influence of religious imagery on a characteristic settlement structure in modern America. Cultural guiding images such as the Garden of Eden and the frontier, built in a tradition of Protestant, Calvinist Puritanism, are linked with a specifically Christian corpus of broadly biblical orientations. They are integral parts of the American way of life and had a lasting impact on modern urban development, particularly in America. Although the dispersed suburbs are supposed to carry on the political ideal of a decentralized society, the topologies of the centralized cities are the hubs of business activity, places of economic assertion. Calvinist imagery plays an important part in this: on one hand, it reflects the desire for a way of settlement that was originally agrarian motivated; on the other, the need for a centralized settlement for economic purposes.American urban settlement is characterized not only by a relatively low population density but also by a characteristic structure comprising centralized cities and decentralized suburbs. In the terminology presented here, cities display agglomerated topologies and predominantly economic utilization (e.g., traditional central business districts, historical inner cities, edge cities, or other business districts). The suburbs, on the other hand, are determined by dispersed developments and tend to be characterized space and culture vol. 11 no. 4, november 2008 422-436

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Section: Political Decentralizationsupporting

confidence: 79%

The Meaning of Protestant-Calvinist Imagery in Urban America

Hardinghaus

2008

Space and Culture

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“…It is difficult to account definitively for the regional differences but the results may point to different forms of neighboring in Québec. They may also reflect more limited opportunities to get to know neighbors among the large number of highly mobile Montréal renters who live for relatively short periods at the same address (Choko and Harris 1990).…”

Section: Social Contacts: Who the Foreign-and Canadian-born Knowmentioning

confidence: 99%

Are Immigrants Socially Isolated? An Assessment of Neighbors and Neighboring in Canadian Cities

Ray

Preston

2009

Int. Migration & Integration

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Recently, the media have expressed concern about the apparent concentration and social isolation of immigrants in central and inner suburban neighborhoods in large Canadian cities. This paper compares and contrasts the frequency and nature of neighborhood-based social contacts among three cohorts of immigrants distinguished by their period of arrival in Canada and Canadian-born individuals. We begin by outlining the family, friend, and acquaintance relationships that immigrants build and argue that their networks are culturally diverse and dominated by acquaintances. In this context, intense friendships rarely develop between neighbors, even for recent newcomers. Rather, neighboring consists mainly of casual interactions between individuals that often involve the provision of mundane forms of assistance. Despite their fleeting and routine qualities, social relations with neighbors lead the vast majority of people to express strong levels of belonging to their neighborhoods. As a consequence, we argue that the neighborhood is an underestimated locale for understanding social inclusion.Résumé Ces derniers temps, les médias ont révélé des préoccupations quant à la concentration apparente et l'isolation sociale des immigrants dans les quartiers centraux et ceux des banlieues proches des grandes villes canadiennes. Cet article établit une comparaison de la fréquence et la nature des contacts sociaux basés dans le quartier parmi trois cohortes d'immigrants (classées selon la date de leur arrivée au Canada) et celles des personnes nées au Canada. Nous commençons en dressant un portrait des rapports que tissent les immigrants avec leur famille, leurs amis et leurs connaissances, et soutenons que leurs réseaux sont diversifiés sur le plan culturel et que les connaissances y jouent un rôle prépondérant. Dans ce contexte, il Int. Migration & Integration (est rare que les amitiés intenses se développent entre voisins, même pour les nouveaux arrivants. Les contacts entre voisins consistent principalement en des interactions occasionnelles entre des individus qui, souvent, se rendent un service banal. Malgré la qualité fugace et routinière de ces relations sociales entre voisins, la grande majorité des gens expriment un fort sentiment d'appartenance à leurs quartiers. Ainsi, nous proposons que l'on sous-estime le potentiel du quartier comme lieu pour comprendre l'inclusion sociale.

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“…At opposite ends of the density spectrum were New York City's compact apartment buildings and tenements, and the single-family house that predominated in southern and western metropolitan regions (Pluntz, 1990;Groth, 2004). In a Canadian context, Choko and Harris (1990) identified major historical differences between the housing form and tenure of Montreal and Toronto, while other researchers concentrated on the characteristics of older residential forms in different cities (e.g., Legault, 1989;Dennis, 1994). …”

Section: Similarities and Differences In North American Metropolitan mentioning

confidence: 98%

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

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This study investigates the balance between forces of standardization and differentiation in the evolution of residential density in Canada's four largest metropolitan regions between 1971 and 2006. The leading factors of standardized development are the continentwide postwar adaptation of urban form to the automobile and growing housing space consumption. The influence of these factors is manifested in increasing convergence in the density levels of the four metropolitan regions as one moves from older to newer zones. Nonetheless, inherited urban forms, topography, economic and demographic performance, and land-use and transportation policies all have the potential to shape distinct density patterns. Each metropolitan region presents a specific density trajectory: Toronto registers a pattern that can be qualified as stable and recentralized; Montreal emerges as a decentralizing metropolitan region; Vancouver shows clear signs of intensification; and in Ottawa-Hull the trajectory combines decentralization and stability. These different metropolitan trajectories offer lessons for intensification strategies. Findings suggest that continentwide tendencies are shaped by features specific to each metropolitan region, and that successful intensification policies must build on those features. [Key words: density gradients, metropolitan regions, metropolitan trajectories, urban intensification, metropolitan planning.] This study investigates similarities and differences in urban development in the four largest Canadian metropolitan regions (labeled CMAs [census metropolitan areas] by

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The Local Culture of Property: A Comparative History of Housing Tenure in Montreal and Toronto

Cited by 31 publications

References 22 publications

The Meaning of Protestant-Calvinist Imagery in Urban America

The Meaning of Protestant-Calvinist Imagery in Urban America

Are Immigrants Socially Isolated? An Assessment of Neighbors and Neighboring in Canadian Cities

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

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