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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Relph, Edward

Titel

Globally Connected and Locally Divided

Ist Teil von

• Toronto, 2013, p.123-146

Ort / Verlag

United States: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Globalization is most often discussed as an economic phenomenon. This is a limited perspective. In Toronto for sure, and presumably everywhere, it is both economic and social. It involves flows of money and goods, and it involves flows of people. The fundamental process behind Toronto’s expansion into a polycentric region has been population growth, which since 1981 has been somewhere between 84,000 and 134,000 people a year, depending on how the region is defined (Table 8.1). Almost all that growth has been the result of immigration from outside Canada. Of the 6.2 million people living in the Greater Toronto and