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City history and city planning: The local historical roots of the city planning function in three cities of the Canadian prairies

机译：城市历史和城市规划：加拿大大草原的三个城市中城市规划职能的地方历史根源

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Counter to prevailing theories among urbanists which seek to explain urban phenomena on the basis of common characteristics of cities, this thesis argues that every city, because of its environment and its own peculiar history, differs from every other city in significant ways and that these differences are more revealing of the inner nature of cities than are their commonalities.;To confirm this proposition requires a comparison of the similarities and differences among cities and the demonstration that there are, indeed, essential differences among them which account for telling differences in their governance, development and outlook. Comparisons of cities in the same socio-economic and cultural milieu, the same time-period and the same geographic location would be most persuasive: significant differences among such cities are not normally to be expected and, if found, would support the thesis. Accordingly, three cities in the prairie region of Canada which meet these stipulated criteria--Winnipeg, Regina and Calgary--were chosen as the subject cities of this study.;The study examines the salient features of the physiography and history of the prairie region, the nature of the city planning function, the notion of a prairie regional personality, and the histories of the three subject cities. It finds that because of constitutional, statutory and historic factors, the common role of city government is administrative rather than policy-making; that the planning function is, in effect, an administrative instrument which simply expresses the city council's politico-economic orientation; and that the "master plan" is an ineffectual planning device. City government could become a true policy-making government if its statutory context were changed, but such a change is most unlikely. The planning function, however, could be made much more effective with some simple by-law changes. The study's principal finding is that although all three cities shared a common environment and had common characteristics at the outset, they diverged widely from each other during the course of their historical evolution until they became unlike each other, each with its own particular characteristics. These unique traits were embedded in the inner nature of each city and are expressed in its distinctive governance, communal ethos, planning function and development process. It surely follows, then, that the fullest understanding of any city, as well as solutions to its problems, must be sought in its own inner nature, not in synoptic urban theories or other cities' practices.
机译：与试图在城市的共同特征基础上解释城市现象的城市主义者之间的流行理论相反，本论文认为，每个城市，由于其环境和自身独特的历史，在每个方面都与其他城市有很大的不同，并且这些差异要比城市的共同性更能揭示城市的内在本质；要确认这一主张，需要对城市之间的相似性和差异进行比较，并证明它们之间确实存在本质上的差异，这说明了它们治理的差异，发展与展望。在相同的社会经济和文化环境，相同的时间段和相同的地理位置上比较城市是最有说服力的：通常不希望在这些城市之间存在显着差异，如果发现的话，这将支持本论文。因此，选择了加拿大大草原地区的三个符合这些规定标准的城市-温尼伯，里贾纳和卡尔加里-作为本研究的主题城市。 ，城市规划功能的性质，草原地区性格的概念以及三个主题城市的历史。研究发现，由于宪法，法规和历史因素，城市政府的共同作用是行政而非政策制定；实际上，规划职能是一种行政手段，只是表达了市议会的政治经济取向；并且“总体规划”是无效的规划工具。如果更改其法定背景，城市政府可以成为真正的决策政府，但是这种变化是最不可能的。但是，通过一些简单的章程更改，可以使计划功能更加有效。该研究的主要发现是，尽管这三个城市从一开始就具有共同的环境并具有共同的特征，但它们在历史演变过程中彼此相距甚远，直到彼此变得不同为止，每个城市都有自己的特色。这些独特的特征被嵌入每个城市的内在本质，并以其独特的治理，社区风气，规划功能和发展过程得以体现。因此，它必然随之而来，那就是必须以其自身的内在本质而不是概要性的城市理论或其他城市的实践来寻求对任何城市的最全面的了解，以及对其问题的解决方案。

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    Levin, Earl A.;

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    University of Manitoba (Canada).;

  • 授予单位 University of Manitoba (Canada).;
  • 学科 Urban planning.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 1993
  • 页码 854 p.
  • 总页数 854
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
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