Toronto Sprawls : : A History / / Lawrence Solomon.
With a landmass of approximately 7000 square kilometres and a population of roughly five million, the Greater Toronto Area is Canada's largest metropolitan centre. How did a small nineteenth-century colonial capital become this sprawling urban giant, and how did government policies shape the co...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | U of T Centre for Public Management Series on Public Policy & Administration
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (128 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Toronto circa 1900, before the Era of Sprawl
- 1. How Private Transit Hobbled Sprawl
- 2. Living at Close Quarters
- 3. Toronto the Good
- 4. Model People, Model Suburbs
- 5. Canada's War Effort against the Cities
- 6. CMHC and Cheap Financing Open Up the Suburbs
- 7. Partial Amalgamation, Full Sprawl
- 8. The Suburbs beyond the Suburbs
- Conclusion: How Toronto Might Have Been
- Postscript: Toronto in 2020
- Notes
- Index