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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.
Rental housing in rural Manitoba : current issues and future prospects
(Institute of Urban Studies, 1991)
Comedy in three acts : municipal policy and district planning in Manitoba
(Institute of Urban Studies, 1987)
The Geography of Income Within Manitoba's Capital Region
The City of Winnipeg and 15 surrounding urban and rural municipalities form the Capital Region of Manitoba (see Figure 1). Between 1996 and 2001, these surrounding municipalities captured a large majority of the region’s ...
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, ...
Variation in the cost and use of winter home heating among the independent elderly : a case study of Waterloo (1986)
(Institute of Urban Studies, 1987)
Residential back taxes and revitalization: a study of Winnipeg's Spence neighbourhood
(Institute of Urban Studies, 2002-01-01)
The City of Winnipeg considers the Spence neighbourhood a Major Rehabilitation Area.
Socio-economic conditions have deteriorated and the number of boarded-up and
abandoned homes has increased. Community groups are calling ...
Older Canadian homeowners : a literature review
(The Institute of Urban Studies, 1983)
Native households in Winnipeg : strategies of co-residence and financial support
(The Institute of Urban Studies, 1984)
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 ...