Spelt, J.

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Pour citer ce compte rendu, utiliser l'adresse suivante : URI: http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/020718arDOI: 10.7202/020718arNote : les règles d'écriture des références bibliographiques peuvent varier selon les différents domaines du savoir.Ce document est protégé par la loi sur le droit d'auteur. L'utilisation des services d'Érudit (y compris la reproduction) est assujettie à sa politiqued'utilisation que vous pouvez consulter à l'URI https://apropos.erudit.org/fr/usagers/politique-dutilisation/Document téléchargé le 10 février 2017 01:47160 CAHIERS DE GÉOGRAPHIE TOURISME DACHARRY, Monique. Tourisme et transport en Méditerranée occidentale. Iles Baléares — Corse — Sardaigne. Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1964, 146 pages and bibliography. Monique Dacharry of the Geography Department of Université de Sorbonne has compiled this informative book on the graduai incorporation of the islands in the sun in the western Medi-terranean into the holiday grounds of millions of Europeans during the Iast décade or so. The author looks at the intégration of thèse islands into the rhythm of vacation Europe from a transport point of view, a field which the author has pursued in previous works. The book is divided into three main portions. The first covers gênerai économie géo-graphie aspects of the individual islands and an inventory of the présent tourist situation. Sec-tion two covers the development of air transport and the existing transport pattern, the transport structure and the fluctuations for the various islands and airports. Large scale maps demonstrate the airport sites and presumably their capacity to take bigger aircraft ; a large number of graphs illustrate the more detailed characteristics in the transport flows. The third section gives the graduai shift from water transport to popular priced regular and charter flight air travelling, intensified in the Iate 1950's. The book is full of interesting data, not necessarily of transport type. One gets in-teresting observations on the various government promotion policies ; the Iist of différent airline companies flying to the islands is fascinating, the many graphs of tourist visitors demonstrate the importance thèse islands hâve for north latitude Europeans. However, one is astounded by the carelessness of the author in using a good documenta-tion. The many graphs are almost impossible to compare. There are no Iogarithmic constructed graphs, by which comparative trends could be analyzed. The authord does not relate in a com-parative way the interesting location relationship : airport - hôtel locations, which defmitely exist on the two larger islands. This aspect could hâve been included under the existing title of the work. As of now, the study is a macrostudy dealing solely with tourist passenger transport. What about tourist influenced transports, such as island transport network, commodity imports caused by tourism demands? Thèse aspects hâve always been neglected in tourist studies. There are costs involved in running the industry too. Sometimes one gets the feeling the author would hâve Iiked to make a more microgeogra-phic study. And that would hâve been very enlightening in the case of the larger islands under study. The final chapter points out the well known fact in tourist studies, namely the inadéquate statistical documentation. The scientist has to work with immigration cards, hôtel registers, etc. ï t is the same situation in Canada. I fmd it about time geographers should try to influence D. B. S. census policies, that so far only give tourist data on national and provincial Ievels. Miss Dacharry's study is very interesting from a fact finding point of view, has a good bibliography but does not penetrate deeply into methodology. J . LUNDGREN, McCill University. GÉOGRAPHIE URBAINE WOLFORTH, John R. Residential Location and Place of Work. B. C. Geograpbico.l séries number 4, 89 pages. Vancouver, Tantalus Research Limited, 1965. LEIGH, Roger. Specialty-Retai l ing : A Geographical Analysis . B.C. Geographical séries, number 6, 121 pages. Vancouver, Tantalus Research Limited, 1965. Thèse studies dealing with aspects of the urban geography of Vancouver are the resuit of a research project directed by Dr. W. Hardwick, of the Department of Geography at U. B. C. Both studies merit close attention. NOTICES SIGNALÉTIQUES 161 After a clear review of the Iiterature and concepts concerning the journey to work, Wolforth analyses the commuting pattern in the Vancouver conurbation. The concern is exclu -sively with the intra-urban situation. The basic aim is to assess the relative importance of the cost of housing and the cost of the journey to work. The data source is a sample taken from the Vancouver City Directory. It provides information on occupation, sex and marital status, and address of both home and place of work. Additional information was obtained from a downtown parking survey undertaken by the city. The author added data obtained from the personnel files of five major companies. The research Ieads to the conclusion that the cost of residential accommodation is the single most important factor in the sélection of a residential location. In other words, contrary to the concepts formulated by Liepman, Carrol, and others, the Vancouver expérience shows that distance from work has Iittle effect on the sélection of a residential location. The journey to work is the resuit rather than the cause of the urban spatial structure. There are a few catégories of workers for whom distance appears to play a part. Thèse are females employed in clérical occupations downtown, married women, and persons employed in work places in peripheral locations. In the case of married women, it is not so much the sélection of residential location as much as a place of work close to home. Clustering around peripheral places of workis possible, because hère one fmds extensive districts with uniform, rather Iow-cost housing. This does not necessarily mean, however, that distance does not play a part at ail for workers in this category. The reviewer found that in Toronto, during the post-war period, workers left the older parts of the city to take up résidence in suburban locations. However, they tended to go to the suburbs closest to their downtown place of work. When the place of work abandoned its downtown location it generally moved to the suburban section where most of its workers had moved. The second study, mentioned above, deals with the location of high-order stores in the Vancouver area. Leigh shows that high-order services which generally are assumed to be the domain of the C. B. D. occur also outside the core. Thèse services, in this instance spécifie types of furniture stores, gifts, jewellery, apparel and other stores, do not cater to a city-wide or régional clientèle. They serve only a spécifie income group or social class which Iives in only certain parts of the built-up area. The hinterlands of thèse stores are sélective, not city-wide. A downtown location may therefore quite well not be the most stratégie location at ail. Also the high-order stores downtown tend to hâve sélective hinterlands, or a sélective clientèle. The specialized retail stores compete monopolistically, i. e. through product differentiation and image projection. Consequently in geographical terms, thèse stores hâve considérable Iocational flexibility, they are able to ignore spatial compétition. The choice of location is often determined by the characteristics of the owners and not of the goods being sold. Distant cus-tomers are attracted by means of spécial retailing techniques. The eccentric location of high-order stores in Vancouver is a rather récent development, Iargely since 1952. It coincides with the greatly increased mobility of the shopping public. Many areas are now as easily accessible as the C. B. D. and moreover, they enjoy the advantage of Iower site rental. Théories based on the concept of spatial compétition are inadéquate to explain the loca-tion and hinterlands of the high-order stores. Equally, central place notions must be reconsidered, since high-order stores can quite successfully Iocate in Iower order centres. According to Leigh high-order stores must not be viewed in the Iight of « central location » and « city wide » market orientation, but as «Iocational flexibility» and «sélective market orientation». This is a most interesting study of great relevance to anyone interested in théories of urban commercial structure. J . SPELT, University of Toronto. CARTOGRAPHIE LIBAULT, André. La c a r t o g r a p h i e . Collection Que sais-je ?, n° 937, Presses universitaires de France, Paris, 2e édition revue et mise à jour, 1966. 128 pages, 19 planches. Les ouvrages généraux de cartographie en langue française sont plutôt rares, et l'aspect austère de la matière les rend généralement peu accessibles au public. Pourtant, A. Libault s'est 

Wolforth, John R. Residential Location and Place of Work. B.C. Geographical series number 4, 89 pages. Vancouver, Tantalus Research Limited, 1965  Leigh, Roger. Specialty-Retailing : A Geographical Analysis.  B.C. Geographical series, number 6, 121 pages. Vancouver, Tantalus Research Limited, 1965.

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Wolforth, John R. Residential Location and Place of Work. B.C. Geographical series number 4, 89 pages. Vancouver, Tantalus Research Limited, 1965  Leigh, Roger. Specialty-Retailing : A Geographical Analysis. B.C. Geographical series, number 6, 121 pages. Vancouver, Tantalus Research Limited, 1965.

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Wolforth, John R. Residential Location and Place of Work. B.C. Geographical series number 4, 89 pages. Vancouver, Tantalus Research Limited, 1965 Leigh, Roger. Specialty-Retailing : A Geographical Analysis. B.C. Geographical series, number 6, 121 pages. Vancouver, Tantalus Research Limited, 1965.

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