Urbanisation and Communities
Scope and Contents
Reference material relating to housing, communities, town planning, and homelessness.
Journal articles and reprints: A housing project wends it's weary way Canadian Public Administration Journal.
Photocopies and typescripts: Development of indigenous leadership in an urban area (1954); Social Planning Council of Toronto: A statement of housing and urban renewal; The Lorado Taft lecture: Urbanisation in the middle and late 1960s (1964); Sperry and Hutchinson lectures: Revitalizing the older city (1964); Speigel, H., Human considerations in urban renewal, inaugural seminar, Centre of Urban Studies, university of Toronto (1964); Sociological research and the city of Toronto, presented to the annual meeting of American Sociological Association (1966); Planning problems and progress, a conference for planning board members in Ontario, addresses by Mr W Harold Clark and Prof J B Milner (1962); information relating to Rochester Half Way house, New York; papers relating to the Elm Haven Concerted Services Program, a research project on public housing; seminar on problems of metropolitan reorganisation, Centre of Urban Studies, university of Toronto; Skid Row and skid row problems, University of Chicago; Edmonton Day Centre: Summer research study: A sociological and psychological study of 137 homeless men (1964); Department of Social Welfare, report on the homeless transients in the province of British Columbia (1960); paper read to the south western area conference of the National Federation of Community Associations on Hartcliffe Community House (1960); Clifford, W., Social Upheaval in the Congo.
Dates
- Creation: Majority of material found within 1940-1978
Extent
2 boxes
Creator
- From the Fonds: Spencer, John Carrington, 1915-1978 (Professor of Social Administration) (Person)
Repository Details
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