Cottage Country in Transition

by Halseth, Greg

• ISBN13: 9780773517295
• ISBN10: 0773517294
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-12-01
• Publisher: McGill Queens Univ

Summary

Using the Rideau Lakes region of eastern Ontario and the Cultus Lake area of southwestern British Columbia as case studies, Greg Halseth examines the ways in which economic, political, and social power affect community change. He focuses on specific issues, such as residential change, land use planning, property taxation, and social organization. Moving beyond empirical research, Halseth sets the changes occurring in these communities within a broader intellectual context of "community power" and "commodification of the rural idyll." He pays particular attention to how general processes and pressures work themselves out in particular places. Written in an accessible style, Cottage Country in Transition will be of great interest to rural geographers, planners, sociologists, and community researchers as well as to rural residents and cottage owners.

Author Biography

Greg Halseth is assistant professor of geography, University of Northern British Columbia.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	ix	(2)
List of Figures	xi	(2)
Acknowledgments	xiii	(4)
Abbreviations	xvii
1 Introduction	3	(10)
PART ONE COTTAGES IN THE COUNTRYSIDE	13	(56)
2 Cottages, Cottaging, and Cottage Ownership	13	(24)
3 Community Change in the Rural-Recreational Countryside	37	(32)
PART TWO COMMUNITIES AND CHANGE	69	(72)
4 Rideau Lakes and Cultus Lake Study Areas	69	(28)
5 Respondent Profiles	97	(17)
6 Housing Change and Conversion Pressures	114	(27)
PART THREE CHANGE AND CONTENTION	141	(98)
7 Community Groups	141	(22)
8 Local Government Structure	163	(25)
9 Change and Contention along the Rideau Lakes	188	(16)
10 Change and Contention at Cultus Lake	204	(19)
11 Conclusions	223	(16)
Notes	239	(24)
Bibliography	263	(18)
Index	281