Saving the Canadian City, the first phase 1880–1920 : : An Anthology of Early Articles on Urban Reform / / ed. by Paul Rutherford.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Adams, Thomas,; Ames, Herbert B.,; Beer, G. Frank,; Burditt, W.F.,; Burgess, W.F.,; Dawson, C.A.,; Dean, S.W.,; Hastings, Charles J.,; Hibbard, F.W.,; Hocken, Horatio C.,; Joplin Clarke, Mary,; Kelso, J.J.,; Lighthall, W.D.,; Mavor, James,; Miller, J.O.,; Rutherford, Paul,; Sifton, Clifford,; Sinclair, A.H.,; Spence, F.S.,; Stewart, Bryce M.,; Taschereau, Henri,; Thompson, Alan C.,; Turnbull, J.A.,; Underhill, Frank H.,; Walker, Byron E.,; Waugh, R.D.,; Wickett, S. Morley,; Woodsworth, J.S.,
• HerausgeberIn: Rutherford, Paul,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1974
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (392 p.)

The rapid, chaotic growth of Canada's cities in the late nineteenth century bred a host of social and economic problems that were most evident in Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, and Vancouver. The daily press soon made its readers aware of the perils of overcrowding, the appearance of slums and ghettoes, the threat of disease and the evils of vice, the greed of utility corporations, and the corruption of municipal governments. The recognition of this urban crisis led some middle-class Canadians to embark on a reform crusade hoping to create and ordered social environment. The urban reformers were very much the products of their age and class -- aggressively optimistic, self-righteous, materialistic, humanitarian but self-interested, romantic and pragmatic. They endeavoured to restrict the power and autonomy of utility corporations; to establish uniform standards of health, housing, sanitation, and welfare; to compel the submission of lower-class and immigrant residents to bourgeois norms of behaviour; and to rationalize and beautify the urban topography. Most important, they turned to the bureaucratic state to ensure the permanence of their reforms. Ironically, their ideas and techniques became in later years the orthodoxy of civic government, against which the new generation of reformers has begun to struggle. The twenty-nine selections in this book are representative of the variety of concerns evident in reform circles when the first movement was in full flower, from the turn of the century to the end of the First World War. They have been organized around four general themes: the debate over municipal control of public utilities; the efforts to make the city healthy, moral, and equitable; the desire for a planned urban environment; and the changing character of municipal reform schemes.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1. The Regulation of Municipal Utilities -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Municipal monopolies and their management -- Chapter 2. Municipal ownership of public utilities -- Chapter 3. The taxation of franchises -- Chapter 4. Some suggestions as to Toronto Street Railway problems -- Chapter 5. The control of public utilities -- Chapter 6. Valedictory -- Part 2. The Redemption of the Urban Community -- Introduction -- Chapter 7. The modern city -- Chapter 8. Liquor and crime -- Chapter 9. Report on the police investigation and its results -- Chapter 10. Neglected and friendless children -- Chapter 11. What does Associated Charities mean and what is its object? -- Chapter 12. The modem conception of public health administration -- Chapter 13. The housing of our immigrant workers -- Chapter 14. The church and the slum -- Chapter 15. Can slums be abolished or must we continue to pay the penalty? -- Chapter 16. Report of the Standing Committee on Neighbourhood Work -- Chapter 17. The new spirit in municipal government -- Part 3. The Concept of Town Planning -- Introduction -- Chapter 18. Address of welcome to the City Planning Conference -- Chapter 19. A comprehensive plan for Toronto -- Chapter 20. A plea for city planning organization -- Chapter 21. Civic efficiency and social welfare in planning of land -- Chapter 22. Modem city planning: its meaning and methods -- Chapter 23. The city as an organism -- Part 4. The Reform of the Municipal Government -- Introduction -- Chapter 24. City government in Canada -- Chapter 25. The ‘machine‘ in honest hands -- Chapter 26. Municipal reform in Montreal -- Chapter 27. Commission government in cities -- Chapter 28. The reform of municipal government -- Chapter 29. The better government of our cities -- Supplementary Bibliography