Toronto : transformations in a city and its region / Edward Relph.

Main entry:

Relph, E. C., author.

Title & Author:

Toronto : transformations in a city and its region / Edward Relph.

Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2014]
©2014

Description:

ix, 206 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Series:

Metropolitan portraits

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-197) and index.
1. Urban transformations -- 2. Confused identities -- 3. Shaping the old city -- 4. The ascendancy of Metropolitan Toronto -- 5. A post-suburban skyscraper city -- 6. Diversity in the outer suburbs -- 7. Polycentricity -- 8. Globally connected and locally divided -- 9. Containing growth -- 10. A city of everybody.

Summary:

"Toronto: Transformations in a City and Its Region traces the city's development from a British colonial outpost established in 1793 to the multicultural, polycentric metropolitan region of today. Though the original grid survey and much of the streetcar city created a century ago have endured, they have been supplemented by remarkable changes over the past fifty years in the context of economic and social globalization. Geographer Edward Relph's broad-stroke portrait of the urban region draws on the ideas of two renowned Torontonians - Jane Jacobs and Marshall McLuhan - to provide an interpretation of how its current forms and landscapes came to be as they are, the values they embody, and how they may change once again"--Dust jacket.

ISBN:

9780812245424 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0812245423 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

City planning Ontario Toronto Metropolitan Area History.
City and town life Ontario Toronto Metropolitan Area.
Urbanisme Ontario Toronto, Agglomération de Histoire.
Vie urbaine Ontario Toronto, Agglomération de Histoire.
City and town life.
City planning.
Stadtentwicklung
Stadtplanung
Toronto Metropolitan Area (Ont.) History.
Toronto, Agglomération de (Ont.) Histoire.
Ontario Toronto Metropolitan Area.
Toronto Region

Form/genre:

Statistics.
History.

Added entries:

Metropolitan portraits.

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 286747
Call No.: FC3097.51 .R45 2014
Status: Available

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