This article examines the pivotal role played by the unelected Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) in the opposition to the Spadina Expressway, from initial proposals in 1963 to the expressway’s 1971 cancellation by the provincial government. After considerable grassroots protests, the matter came to a head in a full OMB hearing in late 1970. There, the OMB had to balance majority interests—as expressed by Metro Council, strongly in favour of the project—versus minority interests of community activists, residents in the path of the expressway, and a growing international network of expressway opponents. Indeed, because the scope of the OMB’s mandate was wide, it was able to study the effects of exp...
Beginning in the mid-1990s, municipal amalgamations were implemented by provincial legislation in Mo...
Between 1948 and 1950, the federal crown corporation, Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC...
Neighbourhood groups are a feature of municipal politics across Canada yet are understudied in mid-s...
In Ontario in the late 1960s, the provincial government’s plan to build an expressway through the An...
This article which covers thirty years of central-area change in the City of Kitchener, Ontario focu...
Entre 1900 et les années 20, période de la première grande expansion urbaine ce sont les municipalit...
This article examines the disputes that erupted in the second half of the twentieth century over the...
The Pickering Airport in Ontario was announced in March 1972 and cancelled in September 1975. During...
The study of community and citizen engagement in municipal decision-making is important within the f...
Criticisms of the work of the City Engineer’s department by members of Toronto Council in 1891-92 le...
During the late 1960s and early 1970s the Canadian government effected a turnabout in its urban rene...
In the early 2000s, the cooperative movement in Ontario came together in order to lobby its provinci...
Urban unrest is an increasingly significant aspect of everyday life and is therefore a developing co...
The rapid spread of electric streetcar technology in the 1890s brought not only passengers to the su...
This article provides an account of the community strategies that pushed the Ontario provincial gove...
Beginning in the mid-1990s, municipal amalgamations were implemented by provincial legislation in Mo...
Between 1948 and 1950, the federal crown corporation, Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC...
Neighbourhood groups are a feature of municipal politics across Canada yet are understudied in mid-s...
In Ontario in the late 1960s, the provincial government’s plan to build an expressway through the An...
This article which covers thirty years of central-area change in the City of Kitchener, Ontario focu...
Entre 1900 et les années 20, période de la première grande expansion urbaine ce sont les municipalit...
This article examines the disputes that erupted in the second half of the twentieth century over the...
The Pickering Airport in Ontario was announced in March 1972 and cancelled in September 1975. During...
The study of community and citizen engagement in municipal decision-making is important within the f...
Criticisms of the work of the City Engineer’s department by members of Toronto Council in 1891-92 le...
During the late 1960s and early 1970s the Canadian government effected a turnabout in its urban rene...
In the early 2000s, the cooperative movement in Ontario came together in order to lobby its provinci...
Urban unrest is an increasingly significant aspect of everyday life and is therefore a developing co...
The rapid spread of electric streetcar technology in the 1890s brought not only passengers to the su...
This article provides an account of the community strategies that pushed the Ontario provincial gove...
Beginning in the mid-1990s, municipal amalgamations were implemented by provincial legislation in Mo...
Between 1948 and 1950, the federal crown corporation, Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC...
Neighbourhood groups are a feature of municipal politics across Canada yet are understudied in mid-s...