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Toronto sprawls a history / Lawrence Solomon.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, (c)2007.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 120 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442685062
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HT169 .T676 2007
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Contents:
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.
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Review: "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.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

"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.

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.

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