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Dr. Philip Coppack earned his Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo in 1985. He taught at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon and Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, before earning a SSHRC Post Doctoral Fellowship, which he spent at the University of Guelph. He joined The Department of Geography at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson) in 1988 where he teaches demography and sustainability, quantitative methods, urban and economic geography, globalization, and environmental perception and cognition. He likes to think of these as wonderful things.
Publications
- "The City's Countryside". (1991). With Christopher Bryant, Chapter 9 in T.E. Bunting and P. Filion (eds.), Canadian Cities in Transition. Toronto: Oxford University Press.
- Essays in Canadian Urban Process and Form, III: The Urban Field. (1987). Waterloo: University of Waterloo, Department of Geography Publication Series, #30. Edited with L.H. Russwurm and C.R. Bryant.
- "Crime in the Rural Urban Fringe". (1991). With E. Carlson in K.B. Beesley (ed.), Canadian Perspectives on the Rural Urban Fringe II. Toronto: York University Press Geographical Monographs.
- "Health Care Services Provision in the Rural Urban Fringe". (1991). With E. Carlson in K.B. Beesley (ed.), Canadian Perspectives on the Rural Urban Fringe II. Toronto: York University Press Geographical Monographs.
- "The Urban Field, Amenity Environments and Local Economic Development: Some Ideas on the Economic Survival of Small Communities in the City's Countryside". (1990). Chapter 5 in F.W. Dykeman (ed.), Entrepreneurial and Sustainable Rural Communities. Sackville, N.B.: Rural and Small-Town Research and Studies Program, Mount Allison University.
- "Rural Attractions and Rural Development: Elora, Ontario case Study". (1990). With K.B. Beesley and C. Mitchell. Chapter 9 in F.W. Dykeman (ed.), Entrepreneurial and Sustainable Rural Communities. Sackville, N.B.: Rural and Small-Town Research and Studies Program, Mount Allison University.
- "The Evolution and Modelling of the Urban Field." (1987). Chapter 0ne in P.M. Coppack, L.H. Russwurm and C.R. Bryant (eds.), Essays in Canadian Urban Process and Form, III: The Urban Field. (1987). Waterloo: University of Waterloo, Department of Geography Publication Series, #30.
- "Forces of Change." (1987). Chapter Two in P.M. Coppack, L.H. Russwurm and C.R. Bryant (eds.), Essays in Canadian Urban Process and Form, III: The Urban Field. (1987). Waterloo: University of Waterloo, Department of Geography Publication Series, #30.
- "The Role of Amenity." (1987). Chapter Three in P.M. Coppack, L.H. Russwurm and C.R. Bryant (eds.), Essays in Canadian Urban Process and Form, III: The Urban Field. (1987). Waterloo: University of Waterloo, Department of Geography Publication Series, #30.
- "Central Places in the Urban Field." (1987). Chapter Five in P.M. Coppack, L.H. Russwurm and C.R. Bryant (eds.), Essays in Canadian Urban Process and Form, III: The Urban Field. (1987). Waterloo: University of Waterloo, Department of Geography Publication Series, #30. With R.E. Preston.
- "Population in the Urban Field." Chapter Six in P.M. Coppack, L.H. Russwurm and C.R. Bryant (eds.), Essays in Canadian Urban Process and Form, III: The Urban Field. (1987). Waterloo: University of Waterloo, Department of Geography Publication Series, #30. With L.H. Russwurm and C.R. Bryant.
- "The Future of the Urban Field." (1987). Chapter Nine in P.M. Coppack, L.H. Russwurm and C.R. Bryant (eds.), Essays in Canadian Urban Process and Form, III: The Urban Field. (1987). Waterloo: University of Waterloo, Department of Geography Publication Series, #30. With L.H. Russwurm.
- "The Role of Rural Sentiment and Vernacular Landscapes in Contriving Sense of Place in the City's Countryside". Geografiska Annaler.Vol 76B, 3 (1994):161-172.
- "Reflections on the Role of Amenity in the Development of the Urban Field." Geografiska Annaler. 1988. 70 B (3) 353-361.
- "Commuting in the Toronto Area, 1971 to 1981." Ontario Geographer, March 1988.
- A Critique of the Waterloo Generic Urban Model's Service Block. Environments, 19 (1987):20-21.
- The Nature of Amenity. Recreation Research Review, 12 (1985):80-87.
- PERIS Screens: The Ports Emergency Response Information System GIS Training Manual. Prepared for the Canadian Coast Guard, 1995.
- Recreation and Ethnicity. Final Report submitted to the Ontario Ministry of Tourism and Recreation for Major Grant ($50,000) 1992.
- Strategy for Development: Northern Ontario. Report to the Department of Regional Industrial Expansion, Government of Canada, 1985.
- An Industrial and Economic Analysis of the Toronto Centred Region. Report to the Department of Regional Industrial Expansion, Government of Canada, 1984.
- A Shift Share Analysis of Industrial Change in Southwestern Ontario. Report to the Department of Regional Industrial Expansion, Government of Canada, 1985.
- Escher and Eliot: Vernacular Landscapes in the City's Countryside. Presented at the Canadian Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, June 1992.
- Rural Health Services in the Urban Field. Presented at the Conference on Applied Geography, Binghampton, October 1989, and the Canadian Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Edmonton, May, 1990 (With Dr. Beth Carlson).
- Reflections on the Role of Amenity, Urban Fields and Local Economic Development in Post Industrial Society. Presented at the Canadian Regional Science Association Annual Meeting, Learned Societies Conference, University of Windsor, June 3rd to 6th, 1988.
- The Urban Field, Amenity Environments and Local Community Development: Some Ideas on the Economic Survival of Small Communities in the City's Countryside. Presented at the Small Towns Conference, St. Andrew's, New Brunswick, June 6th to June 11th, 1988.
- The Evolution of the Urban Field. Presented at the Canadian Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Learned Societies Conference, McMaster University, May 24th to June 8th, 1987.
- Urbanisation in the Saskatoon Region. Paper presented at the Canadian Association of Geographers Western Division Annual Meeting, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, March 1986.
- The Role of Amenity in the Motivation for Visiting Small Ontario Communities. Paper presented at the Canadian Association of Geographers Ontario Division Annual Meeting, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, October 1985.
- The Nature of the Amenity Concept. Paper presented at the Ontario Recreation Society 15th Annual Conference, Ontario Research Council on Leisure, London, Ontario, February 1985.
- A Stage Model of Central Place Dynamics in Toronto's Urban Field. Paper presented at the Canadian Association of Geographers, Ontario Division Annual Meeting, University of Waterloo, Nov 1984.
- Some basic concepts in urban field development." The Monograph, 38 (1987): 17-18. Republished in E.S. News, May 1988, Faculty of Environmental Studies, University of Waterloo.
- "The Central Place Creed: an answer to the Rodney Dangerfield syndrome." Operational Geographer, 7 (1985):38.
- "A methodological approach to the concept of amenity." Proceedings, GIRMS Conference, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, March 1985.