R Alan Walks
Biographic Data
| ID | 99901 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Alan Walks |
| GIVEN NAMES | R Alan |
| FAMILY NAME | Walks |
| SIGNATURE | WALKS R A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 377 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places
Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places, Sharon Zukin, Oxford University Press, Oxford (2010). xv + 294 pp. US$27.95 (hbk). ISBN 9780195382853. Sharon Zukin's latest book serves as
Electoral behaviour behind the gates: Partisanship and political participation among Canadian gated community residents
Gated communities have been characterised as representing processes of ‘forting up’ and ‘civic secession’, in which their residents use gating as a strategy for withdrawing from political life and from taking collective responsibility for others. The assumption is that the residents of private gated communities should be less likely to participate in political life, and/or be more likely to support political parties on the right who advocate priv…
The urban in fragile, uncertain, neoliberal times: Towards new geographies of social justice
Canadian cities are at a crossroads. The neoliberalization of governance at multiple scales, inadequate re‐investment in urban infrastructure, increasing reliance on continental and international trade, and the restructuring of the space economy have combined to weaken Canada's cities just as the global economic system is undergoing transformation. Canadian urban geographic scholarship has much to offer under current conditions, and is already ma…
Gentrification, Social Mix, and Social Polarization: Testing the Linkages in Large Canadian Cities
Gentrification in the form of "neighborhood revitalization" is increasingly touted as one way of decreasing the social exclusion of residents of poor inner-city neighborhoods and of increasing levels of social mix and social interaction between different classes and ethnic groups. Yet the gentrification literature also suggests that the process may lead to increased social conflict, displacement of poorer residents to lower quality housing elsewh…
Urban Form, Everyday Life, and Ideology: Support for Privatization in Three Toronto Neighbourhoods
One of the trends marking neoliberalism and the attack on the welfare state from the right is the move toward the privatization of public services. Recent research in both the United States and Canada suggests that residents of the suburbs of large urban regions are more likely to vote for political parties on the right and to support neoliberal policies such as privatization, while the opposite is true for inner-city dwellers. However, the reaso…
The boundaries of suburban discontent? Urban definitions and neighbourhood political effects
Residents of city and suburban neighbourhoods have diverged in the way they vote, with inner‐city dwellers preferring political parties on the left while suburbanites increasingly vote for parties on the right. Yet it is not clear whether such a division is more evident between residents of central and suburban municipalities (the jurisdictional hypothesis), or between residents of neighbourhoods differentiated by urban form and, by assumption, l…
Planet of Slums by Mike Davis
Mike Davis , Planet of Slums . London and New York : Verso , 2006 . 228 pp. £15.99/$24.00 paperback . As global urban populations soar and cities are faced with fiscal crises, the problems of development become increasingly concentrated in the largest cities. Mike Davis seeks to summarize these problems and their future implications in this broad examination of urban development in the global South. The thesis is that the combination of neolibera…
Mark Clapson, Suburban Century: Social Change and Urban Growth in England and the Usa (New York: Berg, 2003)
The suburbs often evoke strong emotions and opinions, not least from academics and urban scholars. This results in part from their increasingly unavoidable presence in cultural, economic, and polit
Ghettos in Canada's cities? Racial segregation, ethnic enclaves and poverty concentration in Canadian urban areas
Recent literature suggests a growing relationship between the clustering of certain visible minority groups in urban neighbourhoods and the spatial concentration of poverty in Canadian cities, raising the spectre of ghettoization. This paper examines whether urban ghettos along the U.S. model are forming in Canadian cities, using census data for 1991 and 2001 and borrowing a neighbourhood classification system specifically designed for comparing …
The Causes of City-Suburban Political Polarization? A Canadian Case Study
Recent research conducted in both the United States and Canada has found that residents of inner cities and suburbs are diverging in their voting behavior and political attitudes. The mechanisms producing such a divergence, however, have remained unclear. After identifying a set of distinct hypotheses for why one might expect residents of inner cities and suburbs to differ in their political views, this article draws on a survey undertaken by the…
New State Spaces: Urban Governance and the Rescaling of Statehood
Additional informationNotes on contributorsR. Alan Walks Reviewed by
City Politics, Canada
City Politics, Canada, James Lightbody, Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2006, pp. 576.Scholarly research on Canadian urban politics has never been extensive, and the few who teach in the field have had to make do with a limited range of textbooks, mostly focused on the institutions of local government. Those wanting to extend their coverage to deal with such issues as the importance of globalization, social movements, race and ethnicity, social in…
Aestheticization and the cultural contradictions of neoliberal (sub)urbanism
International audience
City–suburban electoral polarization in Great Britain, 1950–2001
The degree to which residents of British inner cities and suburbs have diverged in their voting behaviour over the post‐war period is analysed in this article. Examining aggregate election results by constituency, it is demonstrated that residents of inner cities and suburbs are indeed polarizing in their electoral choices. OLS regression analysis is conducted using constituency‐level data to determine the relevance of intra‐urban differences for…
The City-Suburban Cleavage in Canadian Federal Politics
Despite increasing speculation and attention, as of yet insufficient empirical research has been conducted on the possibility of a political cleavage based on differences between Canadian inner cities and suburbs. This article sheds light on the potential existence of such differences by analyzing federal elections at the level of the constituency from 1945 to 1997. Results show that city-suburban differences in federal party voting did not becom…
Place of Residence, Party Preferences, and Political Attitudes in Canadian Cities and Suburbs
This article examines the degree to which divergence in voting behavior and political attitudes between inner cities and suburbs in Canadian metropolitan areas can be explained by place of residence. As of yet, there has been very little research done on this topic in Canada. Logistic regression models derived from the 1965, 1984 and 2000 Canadian national election surveys confirm that Canadian inner cities and (particularly, outer) suburbs are d…
Suburbanization, the Vote, and Changes in Federal and Provincial Political Representation and Influence Between Inner Cities and Suburbs in Large Canadian Urban Regions, 1945-1999
This article examines the degree to which the relative growth of suburban electoral districts in Canada’s largest urban regions (Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver) has lead to a loss of potential political influence within government on behalf of Canadian inner cities and/or to more support for right-wing political parties. The study finds that although inner cities and suburbs have increasingly diverged in their voting behavior in both federal an…
The Social Ecology of the Post-Fordist/Global City? Economic Restructuring and Socio-spatial Polarisation in the Toronto Urban Region
Numerous authors have asserted that globalisation and occupational changes associated with post-Fordist economic restructuring have led to a growth in intraurban social disparity and even polarisation. This hypothesis is most consistently articulated in the literature on global cities. However, the social effects of post-Fordist economic restructuring and the interplay between occupational changes and social and spatial factors within urban areas…
Gentrification, Social Mix, and Social Polarization: Testing the Linkages in Large Canadian Cities
Gentrification in the form of "neighborhood revitalization" is increasingly touted as one way of decreasing the social exclusion of residents of poor inner-city neighborhoods and of increasing levels of social mix and social interaction between different classes and ethnic groups. Yet the gentrification literature also suggests that the process may lead to increased social conflict, displacement of poorer residents to lower quality housing elsewh…
The Social Ecology of the Post-Fordist/Global City? Economic Restructuring and Socio-spatial Polarisation in the Toronto Urban Region
Numerous authors have asserted that globalisation and occupational changes associated with post-Fordist economic restructuring have led to a growth in intraurban social disparity and even polarisation. This hypothesis is most consistently articulated in the literature on global cities. However, the social effects of post-Fordist economic restructuring and the interplay between occupational changes and social and spatial factors within urban areas…
Ghettos in Canada's cities? Racial segregation, ethnic enclaves and poverty concentration in Canadian urban areas
Recent literature suggests a growing relationship between the clustering of certain visible minority groups in urban neighbourhoods and the spatial concentration of poverty in Canadian cities, raising the spectre of ghettoization. This paper examines whether urban ghettos along the U.S. model are forming in Canadian cities, using census data for 1991 and 2001 and borrowing a neighbourhood classification system specifically designed for comparing …
Place of Residence, Party Preferences, and Political Attitudes in Canadian Cities and Suburbs
This article examines the degree to which divergence in voting behavior and political attitudes between inner cities and suburbs in Canadian metropolitan areas can be explained by place of residence. As of yet, there has been very little research done on this topic in Canada. Logistic regression models derived from the 1965, 1984 and 2000 Canadian national election surveys confirm that Canadian inner cities and (particularly, outer) suburbs are d…
The Causes of City-Suburban Political Polarization? A Canadian Case Study
Recent research conducted in both the United States and Canada has found that residents of inner cities and suburbs are diverging in their voting behavior and political attitudes. The mechanisms producing such a divergence, however, have remained unclear. After identifying a set of distinct hypotheses for why one might expect residents of inner cities and suburbs to differ in their political views, this article draws on a survey undertaken by the…
The City-Suburban Cleavage in Canadian Federal Politics
Despite increasing speculation and attention, as of yet insufficient empirical research has been conducted on the possibility of a political cleavage based on differences between Canadian inner cities and suburbs. This article sheds light on the potential existence of such differences by analyzing federal elections at the level of the constituency from 1945 to 1997. Results show that city-suburban differences in federal party voting did not becom…
Suburbanization, the Vote, and Changes in Federal and Provincial Political Representation and Influence Between Inner Cities and Suburbs in Large Canadian Urban Regions, 1945-1999
This article examines the degree to which the relative growth of suburban electoral districts in Canada’s largest urban regions (Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver) has lead to a loss of potential political influence within government on behalf of Canadian inner cities and/or to more support for right-wing political parties. The study finds that although inner cities and suburbs have increasingly diverged in their voting behavior in both federal an…
Aestheticization and the cultural contradictions of neoliberal (sub)urbanism
International audience
City–suburban electoral polarization in Great Britain, 1950–2001
The degree to which residents of British inner cities and suburbs have diverged in their voting behaviour over the post‐war period is analysed in this article. Examining aggregate election results by constituency, it is demonstrated that residents of inner cities and suburbs are indeed polarizing in their electoral choices. OLS regression analysis is conducted using constituency‐level data to determine the relevance of intra‐urban differences for…
The boundaries of suburban discontent? Urban definitions and neighbourhood political effects
Residents of city and suburban neighbourhoods have diverged in the way they vote, with inner‐city dwellers preferring political parties on the left while suburbanites increasingly vote for parties on the right. Yet it is not clear whether such a division is more evident between residents of central and suburban municipalities (the jurisdictional hypothesis), or between residents of neighbourhoods differentiated by urban form and, by assumption, l…
Urban Form, Everyday Life, and Ideology: Support for Privatization in Three Toronto Neighbourhoods
One of the trends marking neoliberalism and the attack on the welfare state from the right is the move toward the privatization of public services. Recent research in both the United States and Canada suggests that residents of the suburbs of large urban regions are more likely to vote for political parties on the right and to support neoliberal policies such as privatization, while the opposite is true for inner-city dwellers. However, the reaso…
The urban in fragile, uncertain, neoliberal times: Towards new geographies of social justice
Canadian cities are at a crossroads. The neoliberalization of governance at multiple scales, inadequate re‐investment in urban infrastructure, increasing reliance on continental and international trade, and the restructuring of the space economy have combined to weaken Canada's cities just as the global economic system is undergoing transformation. Canadian urban geographic scholarship has much to offer under current conditions, and is already ma…
Electoral behaviour behind the gates: Partisanship and political participation among Canadian gated community residents
Gated communities have been characterised as representing processes of ‘forting up’ and ‘civic secession’, in which their residents use gating as a strategy for withdrawing from political life and from taking collective responsibility for others. The assumption is that the residents of private gated communities should be less likely to participate in political life, and/or be more likely to support political parties on the right who advocate priv…
Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places
Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places, Sharon Zukin, Oxford University Press, Oxford (2010). xv + 294 pp. US$27.95 (hbk). ISBN 9780195382853. Sharon Zukin's latest book serves as
The Social Ecology of the Post-Fordist/Global City? Economic Restructuring and Socio-spatial Polarisation in the Toronto Urban Region
Numerous authors have asserted that globalisation and occupational changes associated with post-Fordist economic restructuring have led to a growth in intraurban social disparity and even polarisation. This hypothesis is most consistently articulated in the literature on global cities. However, the social effects of post-Fordist economic restructuring and the interplay between occupational changes and social and spatial factors within urban areas…
Place of Residence, Party Preferences, and Political Attitudes in Canadian Cities and Suburbs
This article examines the degree to which divergence in voting behavior and political attitudes between inner cities and suburbs in Canadian metropolitan areas can be explained by place of residence. As of yet, there has been very little research done on this topic in Canada. Logistic regression models derived from the 1965, 1984 and 2000 Canadian national election surveys confirm that Canadian inner cities and (particularly, outer) suburbs are d…
Suburbanization, the Vote, and Changes in Federal and Provincial Political Representation and Influence Between Inner Cities and Suburbs in Large Canadian Urban Regions, 1945-1999
This article examines the degree to which the relative growth of suburban electoral districts in Canada’s largest urban regions (Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver) has lead to a loss of potential political influence within government on behalf of Canadian inner cities and/or to more support for right-wing political parties. The study finds that although inner cities and suburbs have increasingly diverged in their voting behavior in both federal an…
City–suburban electoral polarization in Great Britain, 1950–2001
The degree to which residents of British inner cities and suburbs have diverged in their voting behaviour over the post‐war period is analysed in this article. Examining aggregate election results by constituency, it is demonstrated that residents of inner cities and suburbs are indeed polarizing in their electoral choices. OLS regression analysis is conducted using constituency‐level data to determine the relevance of intra‐urban differences for…
The City-Suburban Cleavage in Canadian Federal Politics
Despite increasing speculation and attention, as of yet insufficient empirical research has been conducted on the possibility of a political cleavage based on differences between Canadian inner cities and suburbs. This article sheds light on the potential existence of such differences by analyzing federal elections at the level of the constituency from 1945 to 1997. Results show that city-suburban differences in federal party voting did not becom…
Mark Clapson, Suburban Century: Social Change and Urban Growth in England and the Usa (New York: Berg, 2003)
The suburbs often evoke strong emotions and opinions, not least from academics and urban scholars. This results in part from their increasingly unavoidable presence in cultural, economic, and polit
Ghettos in Canada's cities? Racial segregation, ethnic enclaves and poverty concentration in Canadian urban areas
Recent literature suggests a growing relationship between the clustering of certain visible minority groups in urban neighbourhoods and the spatial concentration of poverty in Canadian cities, raising the spectre of ghettoization. This paper examines whether urban ghettos along the U.S. model are forming in Canadian cities, using census data for 1991 and 2001 and borrowing a neighbourhood classification system specifically designed for comparing …
The Causes of City-Suburban Political Polarization? A Canadian Case Study
Recent research conducted in both the United States and Canada has found that residents of inner cities and suburbs are diverging in their voting behavior and political attitudes. The mechanisms producing such a divergence, however, have remained unclear. After identifying a set of distinct hypotheses for why one might expect residents of inner cities and suburbs to differ in their political views, this article draws on a survey undertaken by the…
New State Spaces: Urban Governance and the Rescaling of Statehood
Additional informationNotes on contributorsR. Alan Walks Reviewed by
City Politics, Canada
City Politics, Canada, James Lightbody, Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2006, pp. 576.Scholarly research on Canadian urban politics has never been extensive, and the few who teach in the field have had to make do with a limited range of textbooks, mostly focused on the institutions of local government. Those wanting to extend their coverage to deal with such issues as the importance of globalization, social movements, race and ethnicity, social in…
Aestheticization and the cultural contradictions of neoliberal (sub)urbanism
International audience
The boundaries of suburban discontent? Urban definitions and neighbourhood political effects
Residents of city and suburban neighbourhoods have diverged in the way they vote, with inner‐city dwellers preferring political parties on the left while suburbanites increasingly vote for parties on the right. Yet it is not clear whether such a division is more evident between residents of central and suburban municipalities (the jurisdictional hypothesis), or between residents of neighbourhoods differentiated by urban form and, by assumption, l…
Planet of Slums by Mike Davis
Mike Davis , Planet of Slums . London and New York : Verso , 2006 . 228 pp. £15.99/$24.00 paperback . As global urban populations soar and cities are faced with fiscal crises, the problems of development become increasingly concentrated in the largest cities. Mike Davis seeks to summarize these problems and their future implications in this broad examination of urban development in the global South. The thesis is that the combination of neolibera…
Gentrification, Social Mix, and Social Polarization: Testing the Linkages in Large Canadian Cities
Gentrification in the form of "neighborhood revitalization" is increasingly touted as one way of decreasing the social exclusion of residents of poor inner-city neighborhoods and of increasing levels of social mix and social interaction between different classes and ethnic groups. Yet the gentrification literature also suggests that the process may lead to increased social conflict, displacement of poorer residents to lower quality housing elsewh…
Urban Form, Everyday Life, and Ideology: Support for Privatization in Three Toronto Neighbourhoods
One of the trends marking neoliberalism and the attack on the welfare state from the right is the move toward the privatization of public services. Recent research in both the United States and Canada suggests that residents of the suburbs of large urban regions are more likely to vote for political parties on the right and to support neoliberal policies such as privatization, while the opposite is true for inner-city dwellers. However, the reaso…
The urban in fragile, uncertain, neoliberal times: Towards new geographies of social justice
Canadian cities are at a crossroads. The neoliberalization of governance at multiple scales, inadequate re‐investment in urban infrastructure, increasing reliance on continental and international trade, and the restructuring of the space economy have combined to weaken Canada's cities just as the global economic system is undergoing transformation. Canadian urban geographic scholarship has much to offer under current conditions, and is already ma…
Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places
Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places, Sharon Zukin, Oxford University Press, Oxford (2010). xv + 294 pp. US$27.95 (hbk). ISBN 9780195382853. Sharon Zukin's latest book serves as
Electoral behaviour behind the gates: Partisanship and political participation among Canadian gated community residents
Gated communities have been characterised as representing processes of ‘forting up’ and ‘civic secession’, in which their residents use gating as a strategy for withdrawing from political life and from taking collective responsibility for others. The assumption is that the residents of private gated communities should be less likely to participate in political life, and/or be more likely to support political parties on the right who advocate priv…
Sociology (15 works) · Geography (14 works) · Political science (13 works) · Economics (12 works) · Law (12 works) · Politics (11 works) · Economic geography (10 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (10 works) · Economic growth (8 works) · Political economy (8 works)