Toronto, No Mean City : Third Edition, Revised /

Eric Arthur fell in love with Toronto the first time he saw it. The year was 1923; he was twenty-five years old, newly arrived to teach architecture at the University of Toronto. For the next sixty years he dedicated himself to saving the great buildings of Toronto's past. Toronto, No Mean City...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Arthur, Eric Ross (Author)
Other Authors: Kingwell, Mark, 1963- (Contributor), Crean, Susan (Contributor), Nasmith, Catherine (Contributor), Hume, Christopher (Contributor), Otto, Stephen A., 1940-2018 (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press, 2003.
Edition:Third edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Buildings.
Architecture.
ARCHITECTURE > Reference.
ARCHITECTURE > Professional Practice.
ARCHITECTURE > Buildings > Landmarks & Monuments.
ARCHITECTURE > Adaptive Reuse & Renovation.
Constructions > Ontario > Toronto.
Architecture > Ontario > Toronto > Histoire.
Buildings > Ontario > Toronto.
Architecture > Ontario > Toronto > History.
Ontario > Toronto.
Toronto (Ont.) > Buildings, structures, etc.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Toronto, no mean city / Christopher Hume
  • Build well / Catherine Nasmith / Le Toronto imaginaire / Susan Crean
  • Toronto in season: 1986 and after / Mark Kingwell
  • Preface to the third edition
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • The village and the ancient trails
  • 'As it was in the beginning ... '
  • A late-flowering georgian
  • Prosperity and eclecticism
  • Romanesque and cast iron
  • Epilogue.

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