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Toronto Sprawls : A History /

"Toronto Sprawls makes a convincing case that urban sprawl in Toronto was caused not by market forces, but rather by policies and programs designed to disperse Toronto's urban population."--Jacket

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Solomon, Lawrence, 1948-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 2007.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Greater Toronto, circa 1900, before the era of sprawl
  • How private transit hobbled sprawl
  • Living at close quarters
  • Toronto the good
  • Model people, model suburbs
  • Canada's war effort against the cities
  • CMHC and cheap financing open up the suburbs
  • Partial amalgamation, full sprawl / with Satish Dhar
  • The suburbs beyond the suburbs / with Satish Dhar
  • Conclusion: How Toronto might have been
  • Postscript: Toronto in 2020.