Criticisms of the work of the City Engineer’s department by members of Toronto Council in 1891-92 led variously to an action for libel, an inquiry, and resignations. While urban reformers in Ontario and elsewhere often couched their criticisms in terms of rational expertise vs. political interference, what this particular case and others like it show instead is that the possession of expert knowledge and the appropriation of a mantle of scientific rationality did not remove politics from decision-making but rather made salient the essentially political nature of expertise. These incidents and the documentation they generated allow us particularly useful windows through which we may view the evolution of municipal governance during a crucial...
Slum clearance and rebuilding first became a serious political project in Toronto during the 1930s. ...
Rapid industrialization of North American cities during the nineteenth century was associated with p...
Histories of contemporary development control tend to situate its beginning in the first or second d...
Until the 1970s Canadian public works had been adequately described, but never extensively studied i...
This thesis examines the response of the city of Toronto at the close of the nineteenth century, to ...
On several occasions in the early twentieth century, advocates of urban planning proposed significan...
This article examines the pivotal role played by the unelected Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) ...
This paper examines the idea that municipalities in Canada – with a specific focus on Toronto – can ...
Toronto is unlike any other city, as its local boosters will not hesitate to point out. That was the...
Entre 1912 et 1925, les municipalités ontariennes de Kitchener et de Waterloo ont connu, en matière ...
This paper examines why the Toronto Board of Management was created and why it is unique based on th...
This paper outlines how the devolution of power from federal and provincial governments to municipal...
This paper examines the interactions between knowledge and power in the adoption of technologies cen...
Does the border between the United States and Canada make a difference? To a political scientist it ...
Urban unrest is an increasingly significant aspect of everyday life and is therefore a developing co...
Slum clearance and rebuilding first became a serious political project in Toronto during the 1930s. ...
Rapid industrialization of North American cities during the nineteenth century was associated with p...
Histories of contemporary development control tend to situate its beginning in the first or second d...
Until the 1970s Canadian public works had been adequately described, but never extensively studied i...
This thesis examines the response of the city of Toronto at the close of the nineteenth century, to ...
On several occasions in the early twentieth century, advocates of urban planning proposed significan...
This article examines the pivotal role played by the unelected Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) ...
This paper examines the idea that municipalities in Canada – with a specific focus on Toronto – can ...
Toronto is unlike any other city, as its local boosters will not hesitate to point out. That was the...
Entre 1912 et 1925, les municipalités ontariennes de Kitchener et de Waterloo ont connu, en matière ...
This paper examines why the Toronto Board of Management was created and why it is unique based on th...
This paper outlines how the devolution of power from federal and provincial governments to municipal...
This paper examines the interactions between knowledge and power in the adoption of technologies cen...
Does the border between the United States and Canada make a difference? To a political scientist it ...
Urban unrest is an increasingly significant aspect of everyday life and is therefore a developing co...
Slum clearance and rebuilding first became a serious political project in Toronto during the 1930s. ...
Rapid industrialization of North American cities during the nineteenth century was associated with p...
Histories of contemporary development control tend to situate its beginning in the first or second d...