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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. With a focus on mid-size cities and small towns rather than major Canadian metropolitan areas, the authors uncover hidden motivations, untangle behind-the-scenes political machinations, and document the resulting conflict. Through empirical evidence, case studies, and examples, the collection helps develop generalizations and inform best practices for municipal boundary adjustments and reform. The contributors explain how the esoteric aspects of 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.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Introduction / Sandeep Agrawal
Part I: Boundary Changes in Alberta and Saskatchewan
Chapter 2 Annexations in Small Town Alberta / Sandeep Agrawal
Chapter 3 Municipal Annexations, Water Scarcity, and Intermunicipal Conflicts in the Calgary Region / Cody Gretzinger and Sandeep Agrawal
Chapter 4 The Fiscal Impact of Annexation: Lessons from American Jurisdictions and a New Perspective from Alberta / Amrita Singh
Chapter 5 Motivations Behind Annexations in Saskatchewan / Jordan D. Rea and Sandeep Agrawal
Part II: Boundary Adjustments in Ontario, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick
Chapter 6 Post-amalgamation Impact on Developing Land-use Planning Policy: A Case Study of Ontario Municipalities / John Meligrana
Chapter 7 Getting There: Municipal Restructuring in Nova Scotia / John Heseltine
Chapter 8 Boundary Battles in New Brunswick / Zack Taylor and Jon Isaac Taylor
Afterword / Andrew Sancton
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