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Metropolitan Problems (Paperback)
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Metropolitan Problems (Paperback)
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Metropolitan Problems is the end-product of one of the most dynamic
research programmes of its kind ever conceived and executed. The
book, which took three years to complete, represents the
culmination of a two year study that was highlighted by a
conference held in toronto in 1967. In the early 1960s, the bureau
of Municipal Research (in metropolitan Toronto) decided that a
significant way for it to celebrate Canada's centennial would be to
initiate a systematic international study of the world's
metropolitan areas. The study, with the official cooperation of the
United Nations, was designed to produce positive insights into the
methods of coping with the interlocking sets of problems associated
with the expansion of the modern metropolis. Twelve papers on
various aspects of metropolitan problems were commissioned from an
international body of experts. Working with these experts were
study groups drawn from forty major metropolitan centres throughout
the world. After making exhaustive studies of their respective
urban centres, the groups reported their findings and submitted
detailed briefs through their representatives at the conference.
Throughout the symposium, a conscious effort was made to examine
single aspects of social, economic and physical change within the
overall perspective of the metropolis. The book reflects this
approach. Each chapter directs attention to specific problems of
the metropolis, problems resulting from the contradiction between
accelerating technology and our ability to cope with the incredible
pace and rate of change. Together they prove that, despite
differences in technology, culture, and political and social
matters, the major urban areas of the world do have much in common.
Emerging tendencies can be analysed and corrective and preventative
measures be made through comparative analysis. This book was first
published in 1970.
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