The Shape of the Suburbs: Understanding Torontos Sprawl - Couverture souple

Sewell, John

 
9780802095879: The Shape of the Suburbs: Understanding Torontos Sprawl
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0802095879 ISBN 13 : 9780802095879
Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2009

Synopsis

It is now impossible to understand major North American cities without considering the seemingly never-ending and ever-growing sprawl of their surrounding suburbs. In The Shape of the Suburbs, activist, urban affairs columnist, and former Toronto mayor John Sewell examines the relationship between the development of suburbs, water and sewage systems, highways, and the decision-making of Toronto-area governments to show how the suburbs spread, and how they have in turn shaped the city.

Using his wealth of knowledge of the city of Toronto and new information gathered from municipal archives, Sewell describes the major movements and forces that allowed for rapid development of the suburbs, while considering the options that were available to planners at the time. Discussing proposals to curb suburban sprawl from the 1960s to the recently adopted plan for the Greater Toronto area, Sewell combines insightful and accessible commentary with rigorous research on the debate between urban and suburban. Concerned not only with sprawl, The Shape of the Suburbs also demonstrates the ways in which suburban political, economic, and cultural influences have impacted the older, central city, culminating in the forced Megacity amalgamation of 1998.

Rich in detail and full of useful visual illustrations, The Shape of the Suburbs is a lively look at the construction of the suburban era.

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À propos de l'auteur

John Sewell is a former city councillor and mayor of Toronto, has been a columnist for The Globe and Mail, NOW Magazine, and Eye Weekly, and was the founder of Citizens for Local Democracy.

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Éditeur
University of Toronto Press
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0802095879
ISBN 13 
9780802095879
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
208
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2009
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