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OverviewParis 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Richard WhitePublisher: University of British Columbia Press Imprint: University of British Columbia Press Dimensions: Width: 19.10cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 1.202kg ISBN: 9780774829359ISBN 10: 0774829354 Pages: 464 Publication Date: 15 February 2016 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsPreface 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 IndexReviews[White's] exhaustive account spans from the 1940s, when Torontonians embraced government-led solutions for servicing a rapidly urbanizing country, to 1980, by which time citizens were firmly entrenched at the centre of the planning process. Balancing academic rigour with readability, Planning Toronto is the definitive history of Toronto area urban planning. Teasing out remarkable nuance in some well-known events, White also pushes readers to reconsider what they already know-or don't-about the city's urban development in those decades. -- Kevin Plummer Torontoist [White's] exhaustive account spans from the 1940s, when Torontonians embraced government-led solutions for servicing a rapidly urbanizing country, to 1980, by which time citizens were firmly entrenched at the centre of the planning process. Balancing academic rigour with readability, Planning Toronto is the definitive history of Toronto area urban planning. Teasing out remarkable nuance in some well-known events, White also pushes readers to reconsider what they already know-or don't-about the city's urban development in those decades. -- Kevin Plummer * Torontoist * Author InformationRichard 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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