Planning Toronto: The Planners, the Plans, Their Legacies, 1940-80

By Richard White

In this lavishly illustrated, meticulously researched book, Richard White analyzes the city's planning and how it contributed to Toronto becoming a functional, world-class city. Focusing on the critical period from 1940 to 1980, he examines how planners sought to shape the city and the region amid a maelstrom of local and international influences and obstacles. Planning Toronto offers the first comprehensive explanation of how Toronto's postwar plans - city, metropolitan, and regional - came to be, who devised them, and what impact they had. As this definitive history reveals, planning matters - though perhaps not always as expected.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774829354
• ISBN13: 9780774829359
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 2.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.5" x 10.1"