Date: TBD
Description: This week’s readings analyze particular periods in Toronto’s history, with a specific focus on the city’s growth and planning policies. Addressing the formation of Metro Toronto, citizen resistance to top down planning policies in the 1960s and 1970s and the contemporary introduction of comprehensive, regional planning policy each piece raises questions about different strategies of managing urban growth.
Sewell, John: The Shape of the Suburbs: Understanding Toronto’s Sprawl (Toronto: UTP, 2009) pgs. 1-27.
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Boudreau, Julie-Anne, Roger Keil & Douglas Young: Changing Toronto: Governing Urban Neoliberalism (Toronto: UTP, 2009) pgs. 99-118
Klemek, Christopher: From Political Outsider to Power Broker in Two “Great American Cities:” Jane Jacobs and the Fall of the Urban Renewal Order in New York and Toronto (2008) 34(2) Journal of Urban History 309, pgs. 318-328.