Toronto - Transformations in a City and Its Region

A longtime resident of Toronto, Edward Relph is Emeritus Professor of Geography at the University of Toronto Scarborough and author of Place and Placelessness and Modern Urban Landscapes.

List of contents

Preface

Chapter 1. Urban Transformations

Chapter 2. Confused Identities

Chapter 3. Shaping the Old City

Chapter 4. The Ascendancy of Metropolitan Toronto

Chapter 5. A Post-suburban Skyscraper City

Chapter 6. Diversity in the Outer Suburbs

Chapter 7. Polycentricity

Chapter 8. Globally Connected and Locally Divided

Chapter 9. Containing Growth

Chapter 10. A City for Everybody

Notes

Index

About the author

A longtime resident of Toronto, Edward Relph is Emeritus Professor of Geography at the University of Toronto Scarborough and author of Place and Placelessness and Modern Urban Landscapes.

Summary

Toronto describes the diverse and remarkable transformations that have occurred in the urban landscapes of Toronto, especially over the last fifty years as it has grown from a provincial industrial city into multicentered, multicultural, world-city region that is one of the largest metropolitan areas in North America.

Product details

• Authors: E. C. Relph, Edward Relph
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.10.2013
• EAN: 9780812245424
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-4542-4
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Metropolitan Portraits; Metropolitan Portraits
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous