In 1945, Marshall Foss began construction of Thorncrest Village, a subdivision in Etobicoke just to the west of Toronto. Foss and urban planner Eugene Faludi envisioned Thorncrest Village as nothing less than a model suburb for postwar Canada. They created a community that embodied the ideals of modern suburban planning: conformity, community, privacy, stability, and a careful mixture of nature and city. They developed an orderly and controlled suburb that secured upper-middle-class residents’ financial investments and their social status. These residents, in turn, placed unbounded faith in Foss and Faludi’s expertise and identified with the Village as a landmark experiment in modern suburban...
As an open-space-based residential planning archetype, Clarence Stein/Henry Wright’s Radburn in Fair...
Theories of urban planning are often associated with particular movements such as Modernism and New ...
The recent explosive growth of suburbs may be interpreted to be a contemporary expression of man's b...
The garden suburb of Lindenlea in Ottawa was designed by Thomas Adams and built by the Ottawa Housin...
The establishment of new residential neighbourhoods - by builders, developers, government and reside...
This dissertation examines the discursive production of new developments and the reinvention of subu...
This dissertation examines the discursive production of new developments and the reinvention of subu...
Richard Harris's recently published Creeping Conformity offers a carefully reasoned interpretation o...
This dissertation weaves together an examination of the concept and meanings of suburb and suburban,...
While most scholars generally focus on the failings of the post–WWI Federal-Provincial housing schem...
Subject of our interest will be villages in direct relation to a bigger cities. Over time influence ...
Last century saw significant changes in the way we occupy land for living. Technological advances in...
As a result of changing conditions in Canada since the Second World War, suburban municipalities, th...
Last century saw significant changes in the way we occupy land for living. Technological advances in...
I explore the relationships between successive images of a neighbourhood, social and housing conditi...
As an open-space-based residential planning archetype, Clarence Stein/Henry Wright’s Radburn in Fair...
Theories of urban planning are often associated with particular movements such as Modernism and New ...
The recent explosive growth of suburbs may be interpreted to be a contemporary expression of man's b...
The garden suburb of Lindenlea in Ottawa was designed by Thomas Adams and built by the Ottawa Housin...
The establishment of new residential neighbourhoods - by builders, developers, government and reside...
This dissertation examines the discursive production of new developments and the reinvention of subu...
This dissertation examines the discursive production of new developments and the reinvention of subu...
Richard Harris's recently published Creeping Conformity offers a carefully reasoned interpretation o...
This dissertation weaves together an examination of the concept and meanings of suburb and suburban,...
While most scholars generally focus on the failings of the post–WWI Federal-Provincial housing schem...
Subject of our interest will be villages in direct relation to a bigger cities. Over time influence ...
Last century saw significant changes in the way we occupy land for living. Technological advances in...
As a result of changing conditions in Canada since the Second World War, suburban municipalities, th...
Last century saw significant changes in the way we occupy land for living. Technological advances in...
I explore the relationships between successive images of a neighbourhood, social and housing conditi...
As an open-space-based residential planning archetype, Clarence Stein/Henry Wright’s Radburn in Fair...
Theories of urban planning are often associated with particular movements such as Modernism and New ...
The recent explosive growth of suburbs may be interpreted to be a contemporary expression of man's b...