METROPOLITAN AREAS IN CANADA: RECENT GROWTH DYNAMICS, SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION AND HIERARCHY
Abstract
A great part of its high urban population lives in 25 metropolitan areas. In the last census in 1991 this population exceeded a 60 % of the total amount for Canada. The recent growth dynamics and the deep temtorial differences existing are analysed in this paper. All this leads us to the study of the complex and plural causes that encourage this unlike evolution in the towns in Canada. Al1 this brings important problems in the temtorial organization of the country which faces the fact that only some urban axis concentrate the greater part of the population with important gaps among them.Downloads
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