The shape of the city : Toronto struggles with modern planning / John Sewell ; [foreword by Jane Jacobs].

Main entry:

Sewell, John, 1940-

Title & Author:

The shape of the city : Toronto struggles with modern planning / John Sewell ; [foreword by Jane Jacobs].

Publication:

Description:

xvii, 252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / Jane Jacobs -- 1. Dreaming of a Better City -- 2. City Building in the Modern Style -- 3. Don Mills: Canada's First Corporate Suburb -- 4. After Don Mills -- 5. Rejection of Modern Planning -- 6. Creating an Alternative to Modernism -- 7. The Suburbs Ascendant -- 8. Redesign.

ISBN:

0802029019 (bound)
9780802029010 (bound)
080207409X (pbk.)
9780802074096 (pbk.)

Subject:

City planning Ontario Toronto Metropolitan Area History.
City planning Ontario Toronto.
Urbanisme Ontario Toronto, Agglomération de Histoire.
City planning
Stadtplanung
Stadsplanning.
Ontario Toronto Metropolitan Area
Toronto
Cities Structure planning
Ontario

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Jacobs, Jane, writer of foreword

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 86372
Call No.: ID CAN; ID:93-B1862
Status: Available

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