Toronto Sprawls: A History 9781442690424

Table of contents :
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Greater Toronto, circa 1900, before the Era of Sprawl
1 How Private Transit Hobbled Sprawl
2 Living at Close Quarters
3 Toronto the Good
4 Model People, Model Suburbs
5 Canada’s War Effort against the Cities
6 CMHC and Cheap Financing Open Up the Suburbs
7 Partial Amalgamation, Full Sprawl (with Satish Dhar)
8 The Suburbs beyond the Suburbs (with Satish Dhar)
Conclusion: How Toronto Might Have Been
Postscript: Toronto in 2020
Notes
Index

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