The Municipality of Toronto

The Municipality of Toronto
Author: Jesse Edgar Middleton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 574
Release: 1923
Genre: Toronto (Ont.)
ISBN:

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The municipality of Toronto

The municipality of Toronto
Author: Jesse Edgar Middleton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 391
Release: 1923
Genre:
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Frontier City

Frontier City
Author: Shawn Micallef
Publisher: Signal
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2017-02-07
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0771059337

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Toronto is emerging from an identity crisis into a glorious new era. It began as a series of reports from the civic drama of the 2014 elections. But beyond the municipal circus, writer and commentator Shawn Micallef discovered the much bigger story of a city emerging into greatness. He walked and talked with candidates from all over Greater Toronto, and observed how they energized their communities, never shying away from the problems that exist within them -- poverty, violence, racism, and drugs -- but advocating solutions that bring people together. Shawn Micallef introduces us to those fighting for a more inclusive vision of Toronto and reveals the promise and potential for a city that has been suffering through a severe identity crisis but is now on a steep upturn. Toronto, he says, is set fair to be a new urban model for cities all over the world. Micallef reveals Toronto in all its rich variety. It is hard, he says, to grasp the vast size and scope of Toronto until you spend a few hours walking through unfamiliar neighbourhoods. Each reveals another adjacent to it, and then another, and another. The city goes on and on, into unheralded ravines and oblique views of the downtown skyline. Hiding in all that geography is not only great beauty, but a force for change that's been building for decades as people arrived here from every corner of the globe. Frontier City is a revelatory view of the Toronto of today and an inspiring vision of the Toronto of the near future.

The Shape of the City

The Shape of the City
Author: John Sewell
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 278
Release: 1993-12-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1442659300

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Critics have long voiced concerns about the wisdom of living in cities and the effects of city life on physical and mental health. For a century, planners have tried to meet these issues. John Sewell traces changes in urban planning, from the pre-Depression garden cities to postwar modernism and a revival of interest in the streetscape grid. In this far-ranging review, Sewell recounts the arrival of modern city planning with its emphasis on lower densities, limited access streets, segregated uses, and considerable green space. He makes Toronto a case history, with its pioneering suburban development in Don Mills and its other planned communities, including Regent Park, St Jamestown, Thorncrest Village, and Bramalea. The heyday of the modern planning movement was in the 1940s to the 1960s, and the Don Mills concept was repeated in spirit and in style across Canada. Eventually, strong public reaction brought modern planning almost to a halt within the city of Toronto. The battles centred on saving the Old City Hall and stopping the Spadina Expressway. Sewell concludes that although the modernist approach remains ascendant in the suburbs, the City of Toronto has begun to replace it with alternatives that work. This is a reflective but vigorous statement by a committed urban reformer. Few Canadians are better suited to point the way towards city planning for the future.

Big City Elections in Canada

Big City Elections in Canada
Author: Jack Lucas
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2021
Genre: Local elections
ISBN: 1487528566

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This collection offers an in-depth look at municipal voting behaviour during local elections in eight of Canada's largest cities.

Toronto City Guide

Toronto City Guide
Author: John Must
Publisher: Willowdale, Ont. : Firefly Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001
Genre: Toronto (Ont.)
ISBN: 9781552975374

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A guide to tourist attractions, restaurants, night life and shopping, supplemented by sixty-eight detailed maps.

The Shape of the Suburbs

The Shape of the Suburbs
Author: John Sewell
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0802098843

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John Sewell examines the relationship between the development of suburbs, water and sewage systems, highways, and the decision-making of Toronto-area governments to show how the suburbs spread, and how they have in turn shaped the city.

The Municipal Manual for Upper Canada

The Municipal Manual for Upper Canada
Author: Robert Alexander Harrison
Publisher: W.C. Chewett
Total Pages: 720
Release: 1867
Genre: Municipal corporations
ISBN:

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