Accidental city : the transformation of Toronto / Robert Fulford.

Main entry:

Fulford, Robert.

Title & Author:

Accidental city : the transformation of Toronto / Robert Fulford.

Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1996.

Description:

225 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-218) and index.
Going public -- View from the CN Tower -- Hidden city -- Fred Gardner's specialized city -- Ballet of the streets -- Whose beach? -- Scarborough and Scarberia -- Islanders -- Downtown North York -- Vaulted ambition -- Home on the grange -- Monumental success -- CBC's awkward palace -- Accidental masterpiece.

Summary:

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. Robert Fulford, in this compelling book, recounts the exciting story of the postwar transformation of an aging city. In the 1950s Toronto was a gray lady - "a good place to mind your own business," as Northrop Frye said. 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, of the Royal Ontario Museum. Today Toronto bristles with vitality, glitters with every fascination that architecture, planning, and cultural and intellectual 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

ISBN:

0395773075
9780395773079

Subject:

City planning Ontario Toronto History 20th century.
Buildings Ontario Toronto History 20th century.
Constructions Ontario Toronto Histoire 20e siècle.
Buildings.
City planning.
Toronto (Ont.) Buildings, structures, etc.
Ontario Toronto.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 115905
Call No.: ID HT169.C3.T6 1996 CAN; ID:96-B2924
Status: Available

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