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 ... -
Big Boxes, Power Centres and the Evolving Retail Landscape of Winnipeg: A Geographical Perspective
This report offers a geographical perspective on a wave of big box store and power centre development that Winnipeg experienced between 1998 and 2001. Analysis reveals that new retail development has gravitated to existing ... -
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) -
City planning as utopian ideology and city government function
(The Institute of Urban Studies, 1984) -
Comedy in three acts : municipal policy and district planning in Manitoba
(Institute of Urban Studies, 1987) -
A Comparative Analysis of Major Suburban Shopping Nodes in Winnipeg
This report examines structural and business sector attributes of eight major suburban shopping nodes in Winnipeg. It is based on data assembled during August and September 2001. -
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 : the City of Winnipeg Act Review Committee, 1984-1986
(Institute of Urban Studies, 1986) -
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 ... -
Evaluating Winnipeg’s Unicity: Citizen Participation and Resident Advisory Groups, 1971-1984
(Institute of Urban Studies, 1984-01-01)This study focuses on the participatory dimensions of Unicity, reviewing a variety of patterns and providing a comprehensive record of electoral and Resident Advisory Group participation from 1971 to the present. It also ... -
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, ... -
The expenditure budget process in Canadian municipalities : a comparison
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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
(Institute of Urban Studies, 1995)
