Main entry:

Sewell, John, 1940-

Title & Author:

The shape of the suburbs : understanding Toronto's sprawl / John Sewell.

Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2009.

Description:

xii, 260 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-256 and index).
Introduction : intimations of growth -- Toronto in mid-century -- Planning for the future -- Building a superhighway system -- Transit and commuting alternatives -- Pipe dreams -- Reshaping governance in the fringes -- The challenge of unbridled suburban growth -- A triumph for suburban values -- The death of metro -- Re-establishing a regional agenda.

Summary:

"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."--pub. desc.

ISBN:

9780802098849 (bound)
0802098843 (bound)
9780802095879 (pbk.)
0802095879 (pbk.)

Subject:

City planning Ontario Toronto Suburban Area History.
Suburbs Ontario Toronto History.
Urbanisme Ontario Toronto, Banlieue de Histoire.
Banlieues Ontario Toronto Histoire.
City planning.
Suburbs.
Toronto Suburban Area (Ont.) History.
Toronto, Banlieue de (Ont.) Histoire.
Ontario Toronto.
Ontario Toronto Suburban Area.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 261727
Call No.: BIB 192779
Status: Available