Expansive Discourses: Urban Sprawl in Calgary, 1945-1978

• मुख्य लेखक: Max Foran (auth)
• स्वरूप: इलेक्ट्रोनिक पुस्तक अध्याय
• भाषा: अंग्रेज़ी
• प्रकाशित: Athabasca University Press 2009
• श्रृंखला: The West Unbound:Social and Cultural Studies
• विषय: developers; urban sprawl; urban planning; calgary
• ऑनलाइन पहुंच: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

A groundbreaking study of urban sprawl in Calgary 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 conside...