Quietly Shrinking Cities: Canadian Urban Population Loss in an Age of Growth

by Max Hartt

Over the past decade, Canada's population grew faster than that of any other G7 country, but only a few cities drove that growth. Quietly Shrinking Cities calls attention to an unseen cost of big-city growth: more than twenty percent of Canadian cities shrank between 2011 and 2016, and twice as many saw growth lower than the national average. Maxwell Hartt warns against treating continuous growth as the norm or as indicative of urban prosperity...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774866160
• ISBN13: 9780774866163
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.1"