Author: Toronto (Ont.). Planning Board
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 11
Book Description
Report for the Year 1942 to the Council of the City of Toronto by the City Planning Board
Author: Toronto (Ont.). Planning Board
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 11
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 11
Book Description
Planning Toronto
Author: Richard White
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774829389
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
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.
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774829389
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
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.
Regent Park
Author: Albert Rose
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Usable Urban Past Planning and Politics
Author: Alan F.J. Artibise
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773580646
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
This collection of original essays serves both the historians and geographers who seek a deeper understanding of Canada's urban past, and the planners, politicians and citizens who seek to preserve or to change their cities today.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773580646
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
This collection of original essays serves both the historians and geographers who seek a deeper understanding of Canada's urban past, and the planners, politicians and citizens who seek to preserve or to change their cities today.
Exchange Bibliography
Author: Council of Planning Librarians
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Suburb, Slum, Urban Village
Author: Carolyn Whitzman
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774858834
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Suburb, Slum, Urban Village examines the relationship between image and reality for one city neighbourhood – Toronto’s Parkdale. Carolyn Whitzman tracks Parkdale’s story across three eras: its early decades as a politically independent suburb of the industrial city; its half-century of ostensible decline toward becoming a slum; and a post-industrial period of transformation into a revitalized urban village. This book also shows how Parkdale’s image influenced planning policy for the neighbourhood, even when the prevailing image of Parkdale had little to do with the actual social conditions there. Whitzman demonstrates that this misunderstanding of social conditions had discriminatory effects. For example, even while Parkdale’s reputation as a gentrified area grew in the post-sixties era, the overall health and income of the neighbourhood’s residents was in fact decreasing, and the area attracted media coverage as a “dumping ground” for psychiatric outpatients. Parkdale’s changing image thus stood in stark contrast to its real social conditions. Nevertheless, this image became a self-fulfilling prophecy, as it contributed to increasingly skewed planning practices for Parkdale in the late twentieth century. This rich and detailed history of a neighbourhood’s actual conditions, imaginary connotations, and planning policies will appeal to scholars and students in urban studies, planning, and geography, as well as to general readers interested in Toronto and Parkdale’s urban history.
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774858834
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Suburb, Slum, Urban Village examines the relationship between image and reality for one city neighbourhood – Toronto’s Parkdale. Carolyn Whitzman tracks Parkdale’s story across three eras: its early decades as a politically independent suburb of the industrial city; its half-century of ostensible decline toward becoming a slum; and a post-industrial period of transformation into a revitalized urban village. This book also shows how Parkdale’s image influenced planning policy for the neighbourhood, even when the prevailing image of Parkdale had little to do with the actual social conditions there. Whitzman demonstrates that this misunderstanding of social conditions had discriminatory effects. For example, even while Parkdale’s reputation as a gentrified area grew in the post-sixties era, the overall health and income of the neighbourhood’s residents was in fact decreasing, and the area attracted media coverage as a “dumping ground” for psychiatric outpatients. Parkdale’s changing image thus stood in stark contrast to its real social conditions. Nevertheless, this image became a self-fulfilling prophecy, as it contributed to increasingly skewed planning practices for Parkdale in the late twentieth century. This rich and detailed history of a neighbourhood’s actual conditions, imaginary connotations, and planning policies will appeal to scholars and students in urban studies, planning, and geography, as well as to general readers interested in Toronto and Parkdale’s urban history.
Tradition, Social Change and Modernization in India: a Selected Bibliography
Author: Prakash C. Sharma
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Catalog of Government Publications in the Research Libraries
Author: New York Public Library. Economic and Public Affairs Division
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Toronto Since 1918
Author: James T. Lemon
Publisher: Lorimer
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
During the twentieth century Torontonians have gone from pitying Cabbagetowners to envying them, from watching Lionel Conacher at a sandlot to watching the Blue Jays at the SkyDome. This book chronicles the immense changes that Canada's largest city has undergone in this frenetic period. In 1918 Toronto was a provincial city with a half-million inhabitants, overwhelmingly British, Protestant and Tory. Today the city is undeniably world-class, its three million inhabitants gathered from all over the polyglot globe. Despite this metamorphosis, however, Toronto's resilient social fabric endures. Urban planners consider Toronto "the city that works"; other Canadians know it works, sometimes perhaps too hard and too well. Toronto Since 1918 gathers the manifold strands of this great urban tapestry, bringing the city to life with an incisive, engaging text illustrated with more than 150 historical photographs.
Publisher: Lorimer
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
During the twentieth century Torontonians have gone from pitying Cabbagetowners to envying them, from watching Lionel Conacher at a sandlot to watching the Blue Jays at the SkyDome. This book chronicles the immense changes that Canada's largest city has undergone in this frenetic period. In 1918 Toronto was a provincial city with a half-million inhabitants, overwhelmingly British, Protestant and Tory. Today the city is undeniably world-class, its three million inhabitants gathered from all over the polyglot globe. Despite this metamorphosis, however, Toronto's resilient social fabric endures. Urban planners consider Toronto "the city that works"; other Canadians know it works, sometimes perhaps too hard and too well. Toronto Since 1918 gathers the manifold strands of this great urban tapestry, bringing the city to life with an incisive, engaging text illustrated with more than 150 historical photographs.
Highways and Agricultural Engineering, Current Literature
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description