The overall purpose of this study is to provide new insights into
the Canadian urban system through an analysis of economic activities at
the inter-urban scale. The thesis analyses the urban system in terms
of secondary economic activities, more specifically through the manufacturing
industries of 41 Canadian cities with a population of over 30,000
in 1961.
The investigation contains elements of traditional classification
oriented and economic base approaches to urban economic functional
analysis. However, an attempt is made to use the idea of the urban
system to provide a more productive analysis of inter-urban economic
functions.
Correlation and bonding techniques are used to establish patterns
of manufacturing similarities, upon which to base further analysis.
Eight sets of cities and five distinct types of manufacturing profile
are identified for the 41 cities, and the structural-spatial regularities identified are felt to be consistent with a center-periphery model
of the general overall manufacturing structure of the Canadian economy.
The analysis is pursued in terms of the investigation of the relationships
between predominant manufacturing similarities of cities and
various aspects of city size and location. Forward stepwise regression
was considered an appropriate statistical procedure for the purpose of
examining these relationships. From this analysis similarities between
the cities are partially related to factors of size, relative location
and historical evolution. / Arts, Faculty of / Geography, Department of / Graduate
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UBC/oai:circle.library.ubc.ca:2429/41865 |
| Date | January 1970 |
| Creators | O'Carroll, Anthony Cecil |
| Publisher | University of British Columbia |
| Source Sets | University of British Columbia |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, Thesis/Dissertation |
| Rights | For non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https://open.library.ubc.ca/terms_of_use. |
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