Overview

Can three levels of government join hands with real estate developers, non-profits, and private citizens to build a residential community that's urban, vibrant, and best of all, affordable? Consider Toronto's St. Lawrence neighbourhood, and you'll find the answer is resoundingly ""Yes!"" In Housing for All, Frank Lewinberg -- the architect-planner who identified the derelict industrial lands for development as a young city planner and was responsible for the neighbourhood's master plans from 1973 to 1975 -- and photographer-writer Vincenzo Pietropaolo have provided a history of the St. Lawrence neighbourhood. They first walked these streets in the early 1970s, as a housing crisis and rising interest rates loomed over Canada. Now home to 10,000 residents of mixed incomes, cultural backgrounds, and professions, the area is filled with blooming green spaces and multiple accessible, affordable housing options seamlessly integrated into the heart of downtown Toronto. But what is the key to its success, and why hasn't it been replicated? How can this model urban neighbourhood inspire innovative solutions to today's housing problems? With stunning photographs, key interviews, and first-hand accounts of St. Lawrence's development, Housing for All tells the richly detailed history of one of Canada's most successful mixed-income neighbourhoods, delivering lessons and recommendations for the future of affordable urban living.

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""Housing for All tells the inspirational story of Toronto's St. Lawrence Neighbourhood, Canada's most important late 20th century urban revitalization project. Resident vignettes, reflections from its chief planner, Frank Lewinberg, and beautiful images from Vincenzo Pietropaolo enrich the book. St. Lawrence is a blueprint for planning successful mixed-income neighbourhoods with affordable housing for all."" - Professor David Gordon, School of Urban and Regional Planning, Queen's University

""This absorbing tale of how a critical mass of risk-taking politicians, planners and citizen activists combined their skills and energy to deliver St. Lawrence, an iconic affordable neighbourhood built on the edge of downtown Toronto, should be required reading for anyone devoted to city-building."" - Glenn Miller - Plan Canada ""The St. Lawrence neighbourhood is a fifty-year success story. During the current housing crisis, we can draw on the St Lawrence experience to create strong communities."" - Tom Clement, Executive Director of Co-operative Housing Federation of Toronto ""Housing for All tells the inspirational story of Toronto's St. Lawrence neighbourhood, Canada's most important late twentieth-century urban revitalization project. Resident vignettes, reflections from its chief planner, Frank Lewinberg, and beautiful images from Vincenzo Pietropaolo enrich the book. St. Lawrence is a blueprint for planning successful mixed-income neighbourhoods with affordable housing for all."" - Professor David Gordon, School of Urban and Regional Planning, Queen's University

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Frank Lewinberg is the co-founder and partner emeritus of Urban Strategies, one of Canada's leading urban design and planning consultancies. He was responsible for the master plans of the St. Lawrence neighbourhood and has a continued interest in affordable housing. Based in his beloved Toronto, Ontario, Lewinberg's groundbreaking publications, including Study of the Reurbanisation of Metropolitan Toronto, have shaped the discussion on urban matters in the city. Vincenzo Pietropaolo, CM was a city planner with the City of Toronto for over fifteen years before turning to photography full-time. An award-winning photographer, Pietropaolo has been deemed ""one of Canada's pre-eminent documentary photographers"" by Canadian Geographic magazine. A life-long chronicler of the City of Toronto, he is the author of numerous photobooks on social justice issues, often combining photography with his own writing. A member of the Writers' Union of Canada, he was recently appointed to the Order of Canada.

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