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Ampersand The SixThe Heart of TorontoCorporate Power, Civic Activism, and the Remaking of Downtown Yonge StreetBy (author): Daniel RossDaniel RossImprint:
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9780774867016Product Form:
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General TradeApr 01, 2022$32.95 CAD
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9in x 6 x 0.6 in | 360 grPage Count:
240 pagesIllustrations:
23 b&w photographs, 3 mapsUBC PressSOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban- Short Description
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From the 1950s to the 1970s, downtown North America was reconfigured for the suburban age. Municipal officials planned renewal schemes, merchant groups lobbied for street improvements, developers built bigger and taller. Everywhere, attention turned to the problems and possibilities at the commercial and civic heart of cities.
The Heart of Toronto follows one such example of reinvention: downtown Yonge Street. Efforts to keep pace with, or even lead, urban change included the street’s conversion into a car-free public space, a clean-up campaign targeting the sex industry, and the construction of North America’s largest urban shopping mall. These revitalization projects were all connected to wider trends of postwar decentralization, economic restructuring, and cultural transformation.
Interweaving histories of development, civic activism, and corporate clout, The Heart of Toronto widens our understanding of the actors and power dynamics involved in remaking downtown in Canada’s largest city – a process that is far from over.
From the 1950s to the 1970s, downtown North America was reconfigured for the suburban age. The Heart of Toronto follows one example of efforts to address the problems and possibilities of city centres: downtown Yonge Street. Attempts to keep pace with, or even lead, urban change included the street’s conversion into a car-free public space, a clean-up campaign targeting the sex industry, and the construction of North America’s largest urban shopping mall. Linking these projects to postwar decentralization, economic restructuring, and cultural transformation, Daniel Ross reveals the politics and power dynamics involved in reinventing the heart of Toronto.
- This is THE story of Younge Street. It will find an enthusiastic readership among urbanists and the NIMBYs and YIMBYs: those who get right into city planning and real estate debates. And judging from Twitter, there are a lot of them!
- It tells a deeply interesting story of the push and pull of activism, corporate interests, and city hall in the development of downtown. And how this development, and ideas about what downtown should be, were connected to wider trends: suburbanization, economic restructuring, and culture.
- There will be a healthy local market for this book. The author is known in urbanist circles and has written for Spacing magazine.
Daniel Ross is an associate professor in the Department of History at the Université du Québec à Montréal. His research on cities, urban culture, and local politics in Canada has been published in the Urban History Review/Revue d’histoire urbaine, BC Studies, the Bulletin d’histoire politique, and Spacing magazine.
The Heart of Toronto is a fascinating history of a central street. By capturing Yonge in all its glory – from the Eaton Centre to strip clubs, from nighttime fun to urban danger – Ross skilfully dissects the forces that have shaped our cities.
- Steve Penfold, author of A Mile of Make-Believe: A History of the Eaton's Santa Claus Parade and The Donut: A Canadian HistoryBig stories for the big city. The Heart of Toronto is filled with grand visions and forgotten details about a street that the city has always fretted about. This book explains why Yonge has endured.
- Shawn Micallef, author of Frontier City: Toronto on the Verge of Greatness
