Planning Toronto

Author : Richard White
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 42,7 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 : John Sewell
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 080207409X

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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 : Aaron A. Moore
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442612594

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Planning Politics in Toronto by Aaron A. 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 Alexander Moore
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 54,5 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 : Ted Rutland
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781487518240

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Displacing Blackness by Ted Rutland Pdf

Modern urban planning has long promised to improve the quality of human life. But how is human life defined? Displacing Blackness develops a unique critique of urban planning by focusing, not on its subservience to economic or political elites, but on its efforts to improve people’s lives. While focused on twentieth-century Halifax, Displacing Blackness develops broad insights about the possibilities and limitations of modern planning. Drawing connections between the history of planning and emerging scholarship in Black Studies, Ted Rutland positions anti-blackness at the heart of contemporary city-making. Moving through a series of important planning initiatives, from a social housing project concerned with the moral and physical health of working-class residents to a sustainability-focused regional plan, Displacing Blackness shows how race – specifically blackness – has defined the boundaries of the human being and guided urban planning, with grave consequences for the city’s Black residents.

Author : Toronto (Ont.). Planning Board
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : City planning
ISBN : PSU:000005856862

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King-Spadina, Official Plan Proposals by Toronto (Ont.). Planning Board Pdf

Author : Shoshanah B.D. Goldberg-Miller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781315309231

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Planning for a City of Culture by Shoshanah B.D. Goldberg-Miller Pdf

Planning for a City of Culture gives us a new way to understand how cities use arts and culture in planning, fostering livable communities and creating economic development strategies to build their brand, attract residents and tourists, and distinguish themselves from other urban centers worldwide. While the common thinking on creative cities may coalesce around the idea of one goal––economic development and branding––this book turns this idea on its head. Goldberg-Miller brings a new, fresh perspective to the study of creative cities by using policy theory as an underlying construct to understand what happened in Toronto and New York in the 2000s. She demystifies the processes and outcomes of stakeholder involvement, exogenous and endogenous shocks, and research and strategic planning, as well as warning us about the many pitfalls of neglecting critical community voices in the burgeoning practice of creative placemaking. This book is an essential resource in examining the development and sustainability of the global trend of integrating arts and culture in city planning and urban design that has become an international phenomenon. Perfect for students, scholars, and city-lovers alike, Planning for a City of Culture illuminates the ways that this creative city trend went global, with the two case study cities serving as perfect illustrations of the power and promise of arts and culture in current and future municipal strategies. Please visit Shoshanah Goldberg-Miller's website for more information and research: www.goldberg-miller.com

Author : Toronto. City Planning Board
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : City planning
ISBN : PSU:000001797824

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Central Area Plan Review by Toronto. City Planning Board Pdf

Author : Toronto (Ont.). Planning Board
Publisher : Toronto: City of Toronto Planning Board
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : City planning
ISBN : UOM:39015037344721

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Proposals for a New Plan for Toronto by Toronto (Ont.). Planning Board Pdf

Author : Beth Moore Milroy
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780774858939

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Thinking Planning and Urbanism by Beth Moore Milroy Pdf

When manufacturers and retailers vacate traditional locations, they leave holes in a city's fabric that signal a shifting urban-industrial terrain. Who should mend these spaces, and how should they approach the problem? Using Toronto's Dundas Square and surrounding area as a case study, this book meticulously reconstructs the redevelopment process to explore the theories and practices used. It traces the labyrinth of competing interests that can sideline and nearly overwhelm the public planning function. In these circumstances, Moore Milroy concludes that practising planners are marooned by planning theories that begin from the premise that urban space is a social construction and only secondarily a function of technology and aesthetics.

Author : Toronto (Ont.). Planning Board
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : City planning
ISBN : UOM:39015050606055

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Proposed Plan for Toronto by Toronto (Ont.). Planning Board Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 0969647913

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The Liveable Metropolis by Anonim Pdf

Document presents a long-term planning strategy to improve the quality of urban life in metropolitan Toronto through an integrated approach to land use planning and management of environmental, economic and social change. Includes maps of the metropolitan planning areas.

Author : Toronto. City Planning Board
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : City planning
ISBN : PSU:000004545491

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Introduction to Planning, King-Spadina by Toronto. City Planning Board Pdf

Author : Shoshanah B.D. Goldberg-Miller
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781315309248

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Planning for a City of Culture by Shoshanah B.D. Goldberg-Miller Pdf

Planning for a City of Culture gives us a new way to understand how cities use arts and culture in planning, fostering livable communities and creating economic development strategies to build their brand, attract residents and tourists, and distinguish themselves from other urban centers worldwide. While the common thinking on creative cities may coalesce around the idea of one goal––economic development and branding––this book turns this idea on its head. Goldberg-Miller brings a new, fresh perspective to the study of creative cities by using policy theory as an underlying construct to understand what happened in Toronto and New York in the 2000s. She demystifies the processes and outcomes of stakeholder involvement, exogenous and endogenous shocks, and research and strategic planning, as well as warning us about the many pitfalls of neglecting critical community voices in the burgeoning practice of creative placemaking. This book is an essential resource in examining the development and sustainability of the global trend of integrating arts and culture in city planning and urban design that has become an international phenomenon. Perfect for students, scholars, and city-lovers alike, Planning for a City of Culture illuminates the ways that this creative city trend went global, with the two case study cities serving as perfect illustrations of the power and promise of arts and culture in current and future municipal strategies. Please visit Shoshanah Goldberg-Miller's website for more information and research: www.goldberg-miller.com

Author : Gerald Hodge,Ira M. Robinson
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774845274

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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 for sustainable and community economic development, a deeper understanding of Canada’s approaches is invaluable. Hodge and Robinson identify the intellectual and conceptual foundations of regional planning and review the history and main modes of regional planning for rural regions, economic development regions, resource development regions, and metropolitan and city-regions. They draw lessons from Canada’s past experience and conclude by proposing a new paradigm addressing the needs of regional planning now and in the future, emphasizing regional governance, greater inclusiveness and integration of physical planning with planning for economic sustainability and natural ecosystems. Planning Canadian Regions will be a much-needed text for students and teachers of regional planning and an indispensable reference for planning practitioners. It will also find a receptive audience in such disciplines as urban planning, environmental studies, geography, political science, public administration, and economics.