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Responds to a critique of the paper "Housing Tenure and Social Cleavages in Urban Canada," published in a 1986 issue of the periodical "Annals of the Association of American Geographers." Background on the discipline of geography in the U.S.; Approach used in writing the paper; Details of the surveys and maps used in the study; Geographic content of the study.

Local industrial complexes have recognizable patterns of location They are groups of industries which have production interrelationships and which are geographically associated at the urban scale Their existence is attributed to agglomeration economies in general and those gained by juxtaposing linked industries in particular A case study of the Province of Ontario, Canada. shows that local industrial complexes are most prevalent in large towns and in towns located at the center of the provincial space economy Certain types of complex are absent from peripheral regions and from smaller towns These geographical regularities suggest that complexes should be used very selectively as a policy instrument to develop depressed areas . [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Within the rapidly expanding literature on inner-city revitalization (or gentrification), there has been no attempt to assess in a comparative and systematic manner a range of explanations that have emerged from studies of single cities or even single neighborhoods. Four major explanations of gentrification are reviewed here and then made operational in a correlation and regression analysis of inner-city gentrification in the Canadian urban system between 1971 and 1981. Several of the posited explanations are not supported. Economic and urban amenity factors perform most strongly in the analysis, but demographic and housing factors have less effect. I develop an integrated model and discuss its theoretical implications, including its consistency with staple theory and the interrelatedness demonstrated between housing and labor markets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Public policy objectives concerning urban population distribution often are achieved through residential land use regulation. Control over population distribution also can be exerted indirectly through the ,;election of employment sites. If population policy goals can be expressed as a target for each zone of the urban area. then it is possible to determine that spatial distribution of employment for which population distribution comes as close as possible to these targets. Using the matrix structure of the Garin-Lowry urban development model, a goal program is derived which determines the basic employment distribution which minimizes deviations from desired zonal populations for Metropolitan Toronto. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Discusses autocovariance procedures which provide useful insights into the spatial patterns of population change in the cities, towns and villages of southern Ontario. Reflection of distance decay and urban hierarchy effects by covariance patterns; Revelation of spatial constraints on population change that complement the better known temporal constraints; Increase in local variability of change rates with an acceleration of aggregate growth.