Accidental City The Transformation of Toronto - Softcover

Robert Fulford

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9781551990101: Accidental City The Transformation of Toronto

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1551990105 ISBN 13: 9781551990101

Publisher: Macfarlane Walter & Ross, 1997

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Toronto is one of the world's great cities and the commercial and cultural capital of English-speaking Canada. But it is also a classic example of a modern city that has sustained and withstood every kind of urban force. This compelling book recounts the story of the postwar transformation of an aging city. In the 1950s Toronto was a gray lady. Built in a strange and challenging ravine-threaded landscape on the shore of Lake Ontario by generations of architects, the city is now the home of the Canadian National Tower, of an extraordinary subway system, of the Blue Jays and their SkyDome, and the Royal Ontario Museum. Today Toronto bristles with vitality and glitters with all the fascination that architecture, planning, and cultural life can give to a city. It has fallen into many of the characteristic mistakes of modern urban planning, yet it has also saved itself from the worst of them. This graceful narrative, moving from one part of Toronto to another, paints a portrait of the city, its recent history, its urban planning, and its economic growth.

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