Newspaper city : Toronto's street surfaces and the liberal press, 1860-1935 / Phillip Gordon Mackintosh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mackintosh, Phillip Gordon, 1960- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Streets--Ontario--Toronto--Design and construction--History--19th century.

Streets.

Streets--Ontario--Toronto--Design and construction--History--20th century.

Press--Ontario--Toronto--History--19th century.

Press.

Press--Ontario--Toronto--History--20th century.

History.

Toronto (Ont.)--History--19th century.

Toronto (Ont.).

Toronto (Ont.)--History--20th century.

Streets--Design and construction.

Ontario--Toronto.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 348 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmcm

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2017.

Summary:

"In Newspaper City, Phillip Gordon Mackintosh scrutinizes the reluctance of early Torontonians to pave their streets. He demonstrates how Toronto's two liberal newspapers, the Toronto Globe and Toronto Daily Star, nevertheless campaigned for surface infrastructure as the leading expression of modern urbanity, despite the broad resistance of property owners to pay for infrastructure improvements under local improvements by-laws. To boost paving, newspapers used their broadsheets to fashion two imagined cities for their readers: one overrun with animals, dirt, and marginal people, the other civilized, modern, and crowned with clean streets. However, the employment of capitalism to generate traditional public goods, such as concrete sidewalks, asphalt roads, regulated pedestrianism, and efficient automobilism, is complicated. Thus, the liberal newspapers' promotion of a city of orderly infrastructure and contented people in actual Toronto proved strikingly illiberal. Consequently, Mackintosh's study reveals the contradictory nature of newspapers and the historiographical complexities of newspaper research."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Newspaper City 35

2 Farmlike City 63

3 Asphalt City 95

4 Discordant City 132

5 Walking City 166

6 Fatal City 203.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781442646797

1442646799

OCLC:

961141587