Main entry:

Rutherford, Paul, 1944- compiler.

Title & Author:

Saving the Canadian city, the first phase 1880-1920 : an anthology of early articles on urban reform / edited, with introd., by Paul Rutherford.

Publication:

[Toronto] ; [Buffalo] : University of Toronto Press, [1974]

Description:

xxiii, 336 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Series:

Social history of Canada ; no. 22

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-366).
Municipal monopolies and their management (1891) / A.H. Sinclair -- Municiple ownership of public utilities (1904) / James Mavor -- The taxation of franchises (1905) / Alan C. Thompson -- Some suggestions as to Toronto Street railway problems (1905) / F.S. Spence -- The control of public utilities (1910) / F.W. Hibbard -- Valedictory (1919) / W.D. Lighthall -- The modern city (1911) J.S. Woodsworth -- Liquor and crime (1887) / W.F. Burgess -- Report on the police investigation and its results / Henri Taschereau -- Neglected and friendless children (1894) / J.J. Kelso -- What does associated charities mean and what is its object? (1909) / J.A. Turnbull -- The modern conception of public health administration (1917) / Charles J. Hastings -- The housing of our immigrant workers (1913) / Bryce M. Stewart -- The church and the slum (1914) / S.W. Dean -- Can slums be abolished or must we continue to pay the penalty? / J.J. Kelso -- Report of the standing committee on neighbourhood work (1917) / Mary Joplin Clarke -- The new spirit in municipal government (1914) / Horatio C. Hocken -- Address of welcome to the city planning conference (1914) / Clifford Sifton -- A comprenhensive plan for Toronto (1906) / Byron E. Walker -- A plea for city planning organization (1914) / G. Frank Beer -- Civic efficiency and social welfare in planning of land (1917) / W.F. Burditt -- Modern city planning : its meaning and methods (1922) / Thomas Adams -- The city as a organism (1926) / C.A. Dawson -- City government in Canada (1902) / S. Morley Wickett -- The 'Machine' in honest hands (1894) / Herbert B. Ames -- 'A French Canadian' : municipal reform in Montreal (1899) -- Commission government in cities (1911) / Frank H. Underhill -- The reform for municipal government (1916) / R.D. Waugh -- The better government of our cities (1917) / J.O. Miller.

Summary:

The rapid, chaotic growth of Canada's cities in the late nineteenth century bred a host of social and economic problems that were most evident in Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, and Vancouver. The daily press soon made its readers aware of the perils of overcrowding, the appearance of slums and ghettoes, the threat of disease and the evils of vice, the greed of utility corporations, and the corruption of municipal governments. The recognition of this urban crisis led some middle-class Canadians to embark on a reform crusade hoping to create an ordered social environment. The urban reformers were very much the products of their age and class—aggressively optimistic, self-righteous, materialistic, humanitarian but self-interested, romantic, and pragmatic. They endeavored to restrict the power and autonomy of utility corporations, to establish uniform standards of health, housing, sanitation, and welfare, to compel the submission of lower-class and immigrant residents to bourgeois norms of behavior, and to rationalize and beautify the urban topography. Most importantly, they turned to the bureaucratic state to ensure the permanence of their reforms. Ironically, their ideas and techniques became, in later years, the orthodoxy of civic government, against which the new generation of reformers has begun to struggle. The twenty-nine selections in this book are representative of the variety of concerns evident in reform circles when the first movement was in full flower, from the turn of the century to the end of the First World War. They have been organized around four general themes: the debate over municipal control of public utilities; the efforts to make the city healthy, moral, and equitable; the desire for a planned urban environment; and the changing character of municipal reform schemes. PAUL RUTHERFORD is a member of the Department of History, University of Toronto.

ISBN:

0802021611
9780802021618
0802062474 (pbk.)
9780802062475 (pbk.)

Subject:

Cities and towns Canada History.
City planning Canada History.
Municipal services Canada History.
Municipal government Canada History.
Villes Canada Histoire.
Administration municipale Canada Histoire.
Services municipaux Canada Histoire.
Social conditions
Municipal government
Cities and towns
City planning
Municipal services
Canada Social conditions.
Canada Conditions sociales.
Canada

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Social history of Canada ; no. 22.

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 26713
Call No.: 8275 CAN; ID:88-B12720
Status: Available

Location: Library main canada 26712
Call No.: ID PLB CAN; ID:88-B12720
Status: Available