Browsing Research and Working Papers Series by Title
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Aboriginal Female Lone Parents in Four Cities: Exploring Strengths and Challenges
(Institute of Urban Studies, 2007-01-01)The research project pertaining to the exploration of the strengths and challenges facing Aboriginal single mothers in four Western Canadian Cities achieves two goals. First, it documents the development of the research ... -
Beyond a Front Desk: The Residential Hotel as Home
This report is based on a comprehensive analysis of Winnipeg’s single room occupancy hotels. In developing and writing the report, an emphasis was placed on ensuring that the voices of SRO residents were heard and that ... -
Canadian towns and villages : an economic profile, 1981
(Institute of Urban Studies, 1986) -
Citizen attitudes toward city services and taxes
(Institute of Urban Studies, 1985) -
Comedy in three acts : municipal policy and district planning in Manitoba
(Institute of Urban Studies, 1987) -
A comparative overview of population and housing trends in rural and urban Canada
(Institute of Urban Studies, 1992) -
Coping Strategies and Street Life: The Ethnography of Winnipeg's Skid Row
(Institute of Urban Studies, 1985-01-01)This paper provides an overview of life on Skid Row in Winnipeg. The focus is on social and economic phenomena, and, to a lesser degree, the rules of behaviour that are specific to Skid Row subculture. -
The effects of length of urban residency on native labour market behaviour
(The Institute of Urban Studies, 1983) -
Evaluating Winnipeg’s Unicity Government: Past Efforts and Present Challenges
(Institute of Urban Studies, 1984-01-01)This study and those which follow in this series * continue the Institute 1s tradition of monitoring and contributing to Unicity 1s development, a tradition which was established by the "Future City"series of IUS ... -
The Evolution of Urban Canada: An Analysis of Approaches and Interpretations
This report attempts to analyze the main trends and the most significant work in the field of urban historiography and it is organized around four key themes. The report is, in part, a historiographical essay. But it is, ... -
Exploring Housing-Induced Poverty among Middle-Income Canadian Households
(2007-11-01)This report began by exploring the concept of working poverty. It was determined at the outset that while much work had been done on the traditional working poor – that is those low earning “working households” – little ... -
Governance in Local Partnerships to Address Homelessness
(2003-02-04)Organizations working to address the needs of the homeless are under tremendous pressure to serve an increasing number of people with diverse needs. They are also struggling with limited resources and find themselves ... -
Green city views : public opinion and urban environments in ten Canadian cities
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Growth Beyond the Perimeter: Population Change in Manitoba's Capital Region
This report highlights aspects of the current spatial distribution of population in the Capital Region and how that distribution has changed over the past five years, with emphasis placed on outlying municipalities. Based ... -
Housing in Alberta : seminar summary
(Institute of Urban Studies, 1987) -
Housing in Manitoba : seminar summary
(Institute of Urban Studies, 1986) -
Housing in Saskatchewan : seminar summary
(Institute of Urban Studies, 1986) -
Housing subsidies in a period of restraint : the Canadian experience, 1973-1984
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How Well Are Poor People Served by Canadian Banks? Testing Consumer Treatment Using Mystery Shopping
(2012-02-14)This study reports on results from a mystery shopping method that was designed to see how lowincome people were treated by banks in a simple shopping event. Banks that were shopped include mainstream and fringe banks. ... -
Human settlements development : the third world's impact on Canada
(Institute of Urban Studies, 1986)