Planning Politics In Toronto

Author : Aaron Alexander Moore
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442699465

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Planning Politics in Toronto by Aaron Alexander Moore Pdf

The Ontario Municipal Board is an independent provincial planning appeals body that has wielded major influence on Toronto’s urban development. In this book, Aaron A. Moore examines the effect that the OMB has had on the behavior and relationships of Toronto’s main political actors, including city planners, developers, neighbourhood associations, and local politicians. Moore’s findings draw on a quantitative analysis of all OMB decisions and settlements from 2000 through 2006, as well as eight in-depth case studies. The cases, which examine a variety of development proposals that resulted in OMB appeals, compare the decisions of Toronto’s political actors to those typified in American local political economy analyses. A much-needed contribution to the literature on the politics of urban development in Toronto since the 1970s, Planning Politics in Toronto challenges popular preconceptions of the OMB’s role in Toronto’s patterns of growth and change.

Author : Aaron A. Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : City planning
ISBN : 1442699450

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Planning Politics in Toronto by Aaron A. Moore Pdf

A much-needed contribution to the literature on the politics of urban development in Toronto since the 1970s, Planning Politics in Toronto challenges popular preconceptions of the OMB's role in Toronto's patterns of growth and change.

Author : John Sewell
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1972-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0888620209

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Up Against City Hall by John Sewell Pdf

During the 1960s, city politics changed dramatically in Canada. The comfortable world of old-guard municipal politics was challenged by citizen groups and reform-minded candidates. In this book, John Sewell provides a frank, informal account of his involvement in the key issues in Toronto city politics during this period of change. The result is a valuable look at how city government really functions and how citizens and reform-minded politicians can have an impact on city hall. First published in 1972, Up Against City Hall is an inside look at a period of remarkable change in Canadian municipal politics penned by one of the nation's most effective reformers.

Author : Harold Kaplan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015005747533

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Reform, Planning, and City Politics by Harold Kaplan Pdf

Author : Juri Pill
Publisher : Cambridge : MIT Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015006790342

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Planning and Politics by Juri Pill Pdf

Planning and Politics unfolds an extremely detailed case study of a single major transportation review to provide the professional reader and student with a valuable alternative to the usual theoretical planning study.

Author : Alan F.J. Artibise
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1980-11-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773580640

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Usable Urban Past Planning and Politics by Alan F.J. Artibise Pdf

This collection of original essays serves both the historians and geographers who seek a deeper understanding of Canada's urban past, and the planners, politicians and citizens who seek to preserve or to change their cities today.

Author : Harold Kaplan,Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : OSU:32435081467730

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The Regional City by Harold Kaplan,Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Pdf

Author : John Sewell
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1993-12-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442659308

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The Shape of the City by John Sewell Pdf

Critics have long voiced concerns about the wisdom of living in cities and the effects of city life on physical and mental health. For a century, planners have tried to meet these issues. John Sewell traces changes in urban planning, from the pre-Depression garden cities to postwar modernism and a revival of interest in the streetscape grid. In this far-ranging review, Sewell recounts the arrival of modern city planning with its emphasis on lower densities, limited access streets, segregated uses, and considerable green space. He makes Toronto a case history, with its pioneering suburban development in Don Mills and its other planned communities, including Regent Park, St Jamestown, Thorncrest Village, and Bramalea. The heyday of the modern planning movement was in the 1940s to the 1960s, and the Don Mills concept was repeated in spirit and in style across Canada. Eventually, strong public reaction brought modern planning almost to a halt within the city of Toronto. The battles centred on saving the Old City Hall and stopping the Spadina Expressway. Sewell concludes that although the modernist approach remains ascendant in the suburbs, the City of Toronto has begun to replace it with alternatives that work. This is a reflective but vigorous statement by a committed urban reformer. Few Canadians are better suited to point the way towards city planning for the future.

Author : Bill Freeman
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781459731110

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The New Urban Agenda by Bill Freeman Pdf

2015 Speaker's Book Award — Shortlisted City planning in the GTHA has been mired in political grandstanding for the past decade, The New Urban Agenda offers a plain language solution to the issues plaguing the GTHA. Politics in the Greater Toronto, Hamilton Area (GTHA) have become increasingly divisive over the past decade, and solutions to the city’s problems have become hot-topic issues debated in council and the press, but never finding resolution.The New Urban Agenda is equal parts history, social science, and call to action to solve the major problems facing the GTHA. Issues such as urban and suburban development, transit, the region’s environmental impact, affordable housing, and the seemingly inherent gridlock of municipal politics are all discussed. Award-winning author Bill Freeman offers a level-headed approach to the problems and lays out an agenda that will lead to an improvement in the quality of life in our neighbourhoods and downtowns and make our cities more economically viable. He encourages individuals and communities to speak up for themselves and get involved in politics at a grassroots level. With no shortage of examples, he shows how this strategy can create the change that is needed to move cities forward in a way that benefits everyone, not just the business and political elite.

Author : Richard White
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774829380

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Planning Toronto by Richard White Pdf

In this lavishly illustrated, meticulously researched book, Richard White analyzes the city's planning and how it contributed to Toronto becoming a functional, world-class city. Focusing on the critical period from 1940 to 1980, he examines how planners sought to shape the city and the region amid a maelstrom of local and international influences and obstacles. Planning Toronto offers the first comprehensive explanation of how Toronto's postwar plans -- city, metropolitan, and regional -- came to be, who devised them, and what impact they had. As this definitive history reveals, planning matters -- though perhaps not always as expected.

Author : Michael A. Burayidi
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442616158

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Cities and the Politics of Difference by Michael A. Burayidi Pdf

The essays in this collection cover the practical and theoretical issues that surround integrating considerations of diversity in all its forms and guises into planning practice and theory.

Author : Frances Frisken
Publisher : London, Ont. : Department of political sccience, The University of Western Ontario
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Administrative agencies
ISBN : PSU:000014918186

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City Policy-making in Theory and Practice by Frances Frisken Pdf

Author : Albert Rose
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780520359000

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Governing Metropolitan Toronto by Albert Rose Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1972.

Author : Gerald Hodge,Ira M. Robinson
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774850124

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Planning Canadian Regions by Gerald Hodge,Ira M. Robinson Pdf

Planning Canadian Regions is the first book to consolidate the history, evolution, current practice, and future prospects for regional planning in Canada. As planners grapple with challenges wrought by globalization, the evolution of massive new city-regions, and the pressures of sustainable and community development, a deeper understanding of Canada's approaches is invaluable. Hodge and Robinson identify the conceptual and historical foundations of regional planning and propose a new planning paradigm that emphasizes regional governance and greater inclusiveness and integration of physical planning with planning for economic sustainability and natural ecosystems.

Author : John Marshall
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Education
ISBN : 0810817098

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Citizen Participation in Library Decision-making by John Marshall Pdf

The unique experience of the Toronto Public Library, 1974-1981, when reform politics at the municipal level initiated major changes in the library system. Newly appointed Board members enlisted the aid of citizens in identifying unmet needs and exposing basic iniquities in the provision of library service. Participation grew dramatically as citizens became involved at area and neighborhood levels. The result: a major turn-around in the library's priorities. This book analyzes the experience from the points of view of 15 participants and close observers of the process --academics, politicians, library workers, and citizens of diverse backgrounds, approaches, and concerns.