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
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Toronto ; Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
©2007.
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Collection: | University of Toronto Centre for Public Management monograph series.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.