Planning Toronto
University of British Columbia Press (Verlag)
978-0-7748-2935-9 (ISBN)
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Paris is famous for romance. Chicago, the blues. Buenos Aires, the tango. And Toronto? Well, Canada’s largest urban centre is known for being a “city that works” – a remarkably livable metropolis for its size. In this lavishly illustrated book, Richard White reveals how urban planning contributed to Toronto becoming a functional, world-class city. Focusing on the period from 1940 to 1980, he examines how planners shaped the city and its development amid a maelstrom of local and international obstacles and influences.
Based on meticulous research of Toronto’s postwar plans and supplemented by dozens of interviews, Planning Toronto provides a comprehensive and lively explanation of how Toronto’s postwar plans – city, metropolitan, and regional – came to be, who devised them, and what impact they had. When it comes to the history of urban planning, the question may not be whether a particular plan was good or bad but whether in the end it made a difference. As White demonstrates, in Toronto’s case planning did matter – just not always as expected.
Richard White is a Toronto historian and regular lecturer in Canadian History at the University of Toronto Mississauga. Now a recognized expert in Toronto planning history, he began his academic career with a PhD dissertation on the working lives of nineteenth-century Canadian civil engineers Frank and Walter Shanly, subsequently published as Gentlemen Engineers, and went on to publish several other significant works on the history of early Canadian engineering. He then served for several years as research director of the Toronto-based Neptis Foundation, during which time he developed an interest in the history of urban planning and began a long-term program of research into Toronto’s planning history that continues to this day.
Preface
Introduction
1 Planning Takes Root, 1940-54
Planning and the War
The City Planning Board
A New Kind of World
Beyond the City
Legacy: The Planners versus the People
2 Planning the Metropolis, 1954-70
The Metropolitan Toronto Planning Board
Planning Suburbia
The Metropolitan Project
Legacy: Metropolitan Planning Achieved
3 Modernizing a Conservative City, 1954-70
Defining the Problems
Planning the Solutions
Cautious Modernization
Legacy: Conservative Modernization
4 Regional Interventions, 1962-76
Conceiving the Plan
Rejecting the Plan
Legacy: The Unplanned Region
5 Planning Transformed, 1968-80
The Roots of Transformation
Planning and Reform
The Demise of Big-Picture Planning
Legacy: Reform Planning
Epilogue: The New Paradigm and the Old
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 15.2.2016 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 60 b&w photos, 75 maps and drawings |
| Verlagsort | Vancouver |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 191 x 254 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| Technik ► Architektur | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7748-2935-4 / 0774829354 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7748-2935-9 / 9780774829359 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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