Main entry:

Frisken, Frances.

Title & Author:

The public metropolis : the political dynamics of urban expansion in the Toronto region, 1924-2003 / Frances Frisken.

Publication:

Toronto : Canadian Scholars' Press, ©2007.

Description:

363 pages : maps ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface: On the Study of Regional Governance -- 1. Introduction -- Toronto in the North American Context -- Agenda for Regional Governance Reform: Competing Objectives -- Alternative Approaches to Governing City-regions: The North American Experience -- Service Delivery and Service Financing Go Hand in Hand -- Historical Trends in the Governance of North American City-Regions -- 2. 1924-1966 Debating and Creating Metropolitan Institutions -- Background and Context -- Post-war Situation: Defining the Regional Agenda -- Financing the New Arrangements -- Assessing Metro's Performance -- 3. 1966-1975 Three-Tier Regional Governance under Provincial Stewardship -- Introduction: Growth-Related Challenges Redefined -- Origins and Evolution of Policies for a City-Centred Region -- Finance: The Driving Concern -- Consequences of Three-Tier Governance for the Regional Agenda -- 4. 1975-1985 Provincial Retrenchment and Local Inaction -- Why the Ontario Government Backed Away from Regionalism -- Institutional Adaptations to Regional Change -- Financing Regional Services: An Emphasis on Restraint and Financial Restructuring -- Consequences for the Regional Agenda -- 5. 1985-1995 Regionalism Revisited -- Re-emergence of Regional Issues -- Incremental Regionalism -- Financial Challenges: Grappling with Declining Federal Government Support and a Major Recession -- Consequences for Regional Governance: Much Discussion but Few Accomplishments -- 6. 1995-2003 Charting a New Course for Regional Governance -- Institutional and Policy Adjustments Affecting the GTA -- Financing the New Arrangements -- Outcomes for the Toronto Region -- 7. Fifty Years of Regional Governance under Provincial Stewardship -- Assessing the Results of Provincial Stewardship for the Regional Agenda -- Situation in 2003.

ISBN:

9781551303307 (pbk.)
1551303302 (pbk.)

Subject:

Metropolitan government Ontario Toronto History.
Cities and towns Growth Government policy Ontario History.
Regional planning Ontario Toronto Region History.
Urbanization Ontario Toronto Region History.
Urban policy Ontario History.
Agglomérations urbaines Administration Ontario Toronto Histoire.
Villes Croissance Politique gouvernementale Ontario Histoire.
Aménagement du territoire Ontario Toronto, Région de Histoire.
Urbanisation Ontario Toronto, Région de Histoire.
Politique urbaine Ontario Histoire.
Cities and towns Growth Government policy.
Metropolitan government.
Politics and government
Regional planning.
Urban policy.
Urbanization.
Kommunalpolitik
Stadtplanung
Stadtentwicklung
Regionalentwicklung
Toronto (Ont.) Politics and government 20th century.
Toronto (Ont.) Politique et gouvernement 20e siècle.
Ontario.
Ontario Toronto.
Ontario Toronto Region.
Toronto Region

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 286840
Call No.: BIB 227353
Status: Available