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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Relph, E. C.

Series:

Metropolitan portraits.

Metropolitan portraits

Metropolitan Portraits

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--Ontario--Toronto Metropolitan Area--History.

City planning.

City and town life--Ontario--Toronto Metropolitan Area.

City and town life.

Toronto Metropolitan Area (Ont.)--History.

Toronto Metropolitan Area (Ont.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Extending a hundred miles across south-central Ontario, Toronto is the fifth largest metropolitan area in North America, with the highest population density and the busiest expressway. At its core old Toronto consists of walkable neighborhoods and a financial district deeply connected to the global economy. Newer parts of the region have downtown centers linked by networks of arterial roads and expressways, employment districts with most of the region's jobs, and ethnically diverse suburbs where English is a minority language. About half the population is foreign-born-the highest proportion in the developed world. Population growth because of immigration-almost three million in thirty years-shows few signs of abating, but recently implemented regional strategies aim to contain future urban expansion within a greenbelt and to accommodate growth by increasing densities in designated urban centers served by public transit.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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Chapter 1. Urban Transformations

Chapter 2. Confused Identities

Chapter 3. Shaping the Old City

Chapter 4. The Ascendancy of Metropolitan Toronto

Chapter 5. A Post-suburban Skyscraper City

Chapter 6. Diversity in the Outer Suburbs

Chapter 7. Polycentricity

Chapter 8. Globally Connected and Locally Divided

Chapter 9. Containing Growth

Chapter 10. A City for Everybody

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed September 3, 2013).

ISBN:

9780812209181

0812209184

OCLC:

859162789