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1 online resource : text file, PDF |
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Cover; Half Title; Dedication; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1 Introduction; Everyday Hierarchies; The Importance of Hierarchies; 2 All about Hierarchies; Properties of Hierarchies; Physical Properties of Hierarchies; Communications Properties of Hierarchies; Geographical Properties of Hierarchies; Processes in Hierarchies; Hierarchies within Hierarchies; Hierarchies in Nature; Hierarchies at Different Scales; Conceptual Hierarchies; Structured/Unstructured Hierarchies; Dynamic/Static Hierarchies; Open/Closed Hierarchies; Democratic/Autocratic Hierarchies |
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Political/Benign HierarchiesFormal/Informal Hierarchies; Self-Organizing Hierarchies; The Direction of Information Flow in Hierarchies; Diffusion in Hierarchies; Private/Public Hierarchies; Competitive/Cooperative Hierarchies and ""Coopetition; The Physical Form of Hierarchies; Symmetry; Dimensionality; Maturity; Functional/Nonfunctional Hierarchies; 3 Up the Corporate Ladder; Canadian and Global Corporate Hierarchies; Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions in the Global Economy; A Contrarian Point of View; Evidence of Global Change; The United States of Europe? |
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The Evolution of the Internal Corporate HierarchyThe Optimum Form of the Corporate Hierarchy; The Corporate Hierarchy -- An Absolute Necessity or a Dinosaur?; 4 Education and Inequity; The Educational System in Canada -- In Decline?; The Educational Hierarchy; Accounting for the School Hierarchy within Cities; The Educational Hierarchy in Rural Areas; Should Families in ""Have-not"" Towns be Reimbursed in Regard to the Extra Costs of Their Location?; 5 The Future of Communities; Why do People ""Huddle Together"" in Communities?; How Does a Hierarchy of Communities Emerge? |
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Corporate Hierarchies within Hierarchies of CommunitiesThe Changing Face of the Hierarchy of Communities; The Canadian Population; The Canadian Hierarchy of Communities; The ""Americanadian"" Hierarchy of Cities; Toronto -- World Class City?; 6 Travel, Transport and Continentalization; Transportation within Hierarchies; The National Transportation Hierarchy; Ongoing Changes in the National Transportation Hierarchy; The 49th Parallel -- Gateway to the U.S.; 7 Getting Around in the City; The Journey across Town; The Public Transit Hierarchy in the City; The Timing of Urban Flows |
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Urban Transportation and the AutomobilePlanning for the Future of Urban Transport; Urban Evolution; 8 Retail in the City and the Countryside; Shopping and Travel; Retail Hierarchies in the City; Retail Hierarchies in the Countryside; Impacts of the Rural Retail Hierarchy; Rural Communities in Decline; Retail Strategies; Shopping Malls as Hierarchies; 9 Leaving Home; Canadians on the Move; The Hierarchy of Migration; Migration among Canadian Cities; Continental and International Migration among Cities; The Brain Drain -- Canada as a Competitor in the International Jobs Hierarchy |
| Summary |
"This title was first publiished in 2000: A hierarchy is an organization system that is structured in a treelike manner, with levels of status or authority stacked one above the other. The classical and best known example of a hierarchy is probably the typical diagram that describes the structure of a company or business, also known as the corporate ladder. This text argues that hierarchies are one of the most important concepts we have in order to understand the world around us, and looks at hierarchies in a wide variety of areas of interest to everybody, such as companies, educational systems, transport systems, retail stores, corporations, communities, population migrations, medical systems, and many other real-world phenomena. From a Canadian perspective, the text examines these hierarchies and their effects at a variety of scales. It discusses how to understand the system around us and the ones in which we are immersed every day. The central theme is that it is possible to get a better grip on the past, present and future of the world, if it is viewed through an understanding of hierarchies."--Provided by publisher |
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Hierarchies -- Canada
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Social structure -- Canada
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Hierarchies
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Social conditions
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Social structure
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| SUBJECT |
Canada -- Social conditions -- 1991- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96000529
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| Subject |
Canada
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781315192338 |
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1315192330 |
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