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Author Solomon, Lawrence, 1948-

Title Toronto sprawls : a history / Lawrence Solomon
Published Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 120 pages)
Series University of Toronto Centre for Public Management monograph series
University of Toronto Centre for Public Management monograph series.
Contents Introduction: Greater Toronto, circa 1900, before the era of sprawl -- How private transit hobbled sprawl -- Living at close quarters -- Toronto the good -- Model people, model suburbs -- Canada's war effort against the cities -- CMHC and cheap financing open up the suburbs -- Partial amalgamation, full sprawl / with Satish Dhar -- The suburbs beyond the suburbs / with Satish Dhar -- Conclusion: How Toronto might have been -- Postscript: Toronto in 2020
Summary "Toronto Sprawls makes a convincing case that urban sprawl in Toronto was caused not by market forces, but rather by policies and programs designed to disperse Toronto's urban population."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Cities and towns -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Growth -- History
City planning -- Ontario -- Toronto -- History
Urban policy -- Ontario -- Toronto -- History
HISTORY -- Canada -- General.
Cities and towns -- Growth
City planning
Urban policy
Stadtentwicklung
Öffentlicher Personennahverkehr
SUBJECT Toronto (Ont.) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85136127
Subject Ontario -- Toronto
Toronto
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781442685062
1442685069
9781442690424
1442690429