The Heart of Toronto
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The Heart of Toronto by Daniel Ross
From the 1950s to the 1970s, downtown North America was reconfigured for the suburban age. Municipal officials planned renewal schemes, merchant groups lobbied for street improvements, developers built bigger and taller. Everywhere, attention turned to the problems and possibilities at the commercial and civic heart of cities. The Heart of Toronto follows one such example of reinvention: downtown Yonge Street. Efforts to keep pace with, or even lead, urban change included the street’s conversion into a car-free public space, a clean-up campaign targeting the sex industry, and the construction of North America’s largest urban shopping mall. These revitalization projects were all connected to wider trends of postwar decentralization, economic restructuring, and cultural transformation. Interweaving histories of development, civic activism, and corporate clout, The Heart of Toronto widens our understanding of the actors and power dynamics involved in remaking downtown in Canada’s largest city – a process that is far from over."Daniel Ross’ Heart of Toronto is a much needed analysis of a critical aspect of downtown Toronto’s postwar development"
-- Ross Fair, Toronto Metropolitan University * Ontario Historical Society Review *"In The Heart of Toronto: Corporate Power, Civic Activism, and the Remaking of Downtown Yonge Street, historian Daniel Ross reminds us how streets provide a unique and critical lens into urban growth and development." -- Karen Chapple, University of Toronto * Journal of the American Planning Association *
Daniel Ross is an associate professor in the Department of History at the Université du Québec à Montréal. His research on cities, urban culture, and local politics in Canada has been published in the Urban History Review/Revue d’histoire urbaine, BC Studies, the Bulletin d’histoire politique, and Spacing magazine.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780774867009 |
| ISBN 10 | 0774867000 |
| Titel | The Heart of Toronto |
| Autor | Daniel Ross |
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| Bindungsart | Hardback |
| Verlag | University of British Columbia Press |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2022-04-01 |
| Seitenanzahl | 240 |
| Preise | Winner of Heritage Toronto Book Award 2023 (Canada) |
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