The author presents a reanalysis of multivariate data used in a 1986 study by Goldberg and Mercer entitled "The myth of the North American city: continentalism challenged", which examined differences between U.S. and Canadian cities. He concludes that "if one factors out that part of the variance in these 34 variables associated with metropolitan population, racial composition, and variations in the boundaries delimiting central municipalities, and in the criteria used to delimit metropolitan areas in the two countries, then the apparent national urban differences they find are considerably muted."

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美国和加拿大城市之间的差异基础。

作者对1986年Goldberg和Mercer题为“北美城市的神话：大陆主义的挑战”的一项研究中使用的多变量数据进行了重新分析，该研究考察了美国和加拿大城市之间的差异。他得出的结论是：“如果将这34个与大城市人口，种族构成以及界定中央直辖市的边界的变化以及用于界定两国大都市区的标准相关的变量中的一部分变量排除在外，那么，他们发现明显的全国城市差异被大大消除了。”