SOC251 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Gentrification, Commuter Town, Counterurbanization
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Leroy stone expert on canadian urbanization and studied the 1961 census. Canada: % urban by census period: 2011 census: 81% of the canadian population lives in areas defined as urban. (cid:884)/(cid:885) of canadians live in the country"s (cid:885)(cid:885) census metropolitan areas (cid:523)cma"s(cid:524) Differential pace of urban development across the country when you look at the. Ontario and quebec are the most urbanized and they started earlier because this was the part of canada that was first developed. Maritimes have the lowest levels of urbanization but they began earlier than everywhere else because this is where explorers first settled. Suburbs were built after the war due to huge population growth which causes changes in the way cities develop. Cma is a statistical construct based on a daily home to work commuting patterns: 1) population of cma must be over 100,000 as of the previous census. However, once a cma, always a cma, even if the population falls below.
