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"Municipal Boundary Battles explores the motivations, land use effects, and financial implications of municipal boundary adjustments across Canada, focusing mainly on annexations and amalgamations the most frequent means to adjust boundaries and reform local governments in this country. The authors uncover hidden motivations, untangle behind-the-scenes political machinations, and document the ensuing boundary battles, with a focus on mid-size cities and small towns rather than major Canadian metropolitan areas. Through empirical evidence, case studies, and examples among several provinces, the collection helps develop generalizations and inform best practices for municipal boundary adjustments and reform. The volume aims to study this phenomenon to explain how the esoteric aspects of boundary adjustments work in more practical applications, offering political scientists, geographers, municipal officials, and planning practitioners fresh perspectives that contradict much of the prevailing understanding of boundary adjustments. Contributors: Sandeep Agrawal, Cody Gretzinger, John Heseltine, John Meligrana, Jordan Rea, Amrita Singh, Jon Taylor, Zack Taylor. Afterword by Andrew Sancton."--
Boundary Changes in Alberta and Saskatchewan. Annexations in Small Town Alberta / Sandeep Agrawal ; Municipal Annexations, Water Scarcity, and Intermunicipal Conflicts in the Calgary Region / Cody Gretzinger and Sandeep Agrawal ; The Fiscal Impact of Annexation : Lessons from American Jurisdictions and a New Perspective from Alberta / Amrita Singh ; Motivations Behind Annexations in Saskatchewan / Jordan D. Rea and Sandeep Agrawal -- Boundary Adjustments in Ontario, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick. Post-amalgamation Impact on Developing Land-use Planning Policy : A Case Study of Ontario Municipalities / John Meligrana ; Getting There : Municipal Restructuring in Nova Scotia / John Heseltine ; Boundary Battles in New Brunswick / Zack Taylor and Jon Isaac Taylor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development
Edmonton, Alberta : University of Alberta Press, 2024