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The Shape of the City
Toronto Struggles with Modern Planning
Sewell, John Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Canada
Year Published: 1993
Pages: 252pp Price: $18.95 ISBN: 0-8020-7409-X
Library of Congress Number: HT169.C32T67 1993 Dewey: 352.9'6'09713541
Resource Type: Book
John Sewell traces in urban planning from pre-Depression garden cities to postwar modernism and a revival of interest in the streetscape grid.
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Table of Contents
Foreword by Jane Jacobs
Introduction
1. Dreaming of a Better City
2. City Building in the Modern Style
3. Don Mills: Canada's First Corporate Suburb
4. After Don Mills
5. Rejection of Modern Planning
6. Creating an Alternative to Modernism
7. The Suburbs Ascendant
8. Redesign
Bibliography
Index
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