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City Politics in Canada

Forty Years of Continuity and Change

Martin Horak Jack Lucas Zack Taylor

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English
University of Toronto Press
08 April 2026
Canada's big cities are at the forefront of social and economic change. They account for most of Canada's population growth, they are magnets for immigrants from all parts of the world, and they have led Canada's shift from an industrial to a post-industrial economy. Today, perhaps more than ever, Canada's cities are the places where new policy problems, new political movements, and new demands for representation first emerge.

, co-editors Martin Horak, Jack Lucas, and Zack Taylor and their team of authors explore how these great transformations have reshaped the practice of politics in seven large Canadian cities: Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Halifax, Ottawa, Winnipeg, and Calgary. In doing so, they revisit and carry forward the ambition of City Politics in Canada, edited by Warren Magnusson and Andrew Sancton and published by UTP in 1983. That landmark volume was the first to offer an in-depth view of Canadian city politics. Forty years later, a new generation of scholars take up the same expansive, cross-country goal. The editors' introduction presents a holistic picture of urban change in Canada, complete with up-to-date social, economic, fiscal, and electoral data, and identifies important questions. The city chapters, written by local experts, illuminate the dynamics of political continuity and change over four transformative decades. In the closing chapter, the editors synthesize the findings to draw out new insights about the nature of Canadian urban politics.
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Imprint:   University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication:   Canada
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 191mm,  Spine: 23mm
Weight:   520g
ISBN:   9781487569341
ISBN 10:   1487569343
Pages:   304
Publication Date:  
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Primary ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Martin Horak is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Western University. Jack Lucas is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Calgary. Zack Taylor is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Western University.

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