Most histories of urban planning, urban politics, and the development of the welfare state have largely neglected both the existence and the importance of citizen participation in any period prior to the 1960s. The establishment of the Toronto Reconstruction Council/Civic Advisory Council in 1943, and the Community Council Coordinating Committee (4C's) in 1947, however, illustrates the importance of popular involvement in city and social planning during a crucial period in the history of Toronto and Canada as a whole. Organized by the local state both the Reconstruction Council and the 4C's tried to harness the tremendous surge of local activism and social idealism engendered by Torontonians' own attempts to tackle the social problems cause...
This article draws upon the authors’ experiences of community-led regeneration developed while membe...
For a long time, the section of the city in which social welfare, city planning and housing reformer...
This thesis is about municipal social planning in Canada. The purpose of this work is to suggest co...
This dissertation explores how the practice of city planning in New York City came to incorporate "c...
This article explores the links between urban restructuring, homelessness, and collective action in ...
This thesis investigates citizen participation in the planning process in a Canadian city. The city ...
Slum clearance and rebuilding first became a serious political project in Toronto during the 1930s. ...
This article examines Toronto’s community councils, a post-amalgamation creation meant to buffer the...
This article examines Toronto’s community councils, a post-amalgamation creation meant to buffer the...
This article which covers thirty years of central-area change in the City of Kitchener, Ontario focu...
During the late 1960s and early 1970s the Canadian government effected a turnabout in its urban rene...
grantor: University of TorontoThis thesis explores the development of Toronto's settlement...
Acts of domination are not always easy to identify, and in hindsight, the best intentions of post WW...
Many stories of urban renewal schemes are of top-down planning — eradications of whole neighbourhoo...
This dissertation charts the socio-spatial impacts of welfare state reform on the landscape of publi...
This article draws upon the authors’ experiences of community-led regeneration developed while membe...
For a long time, the section of the city in which social welfare, city planning and housing reformer...
This thesis is about municipal social planning in Canada. The purpose of this work is to suggest co...
This dissertation explores how the practice of city planning in New York City came to incorporate "c...
This article explores the links between urban restructuring, homelessness, and collective action in ...
This thesis investigates citizen participation in the planning process in a Canadian city. The city ...
Slum clearance and rebuilding first became a serious political project in Toronto during the 1930s. ...
This article examines Toronto’s community councils, a post-amalgamation creation meant to buffer the...
This article examines Toronto’s community councils, a post-amalgamation creation meant to buffer the...
This article which covers thirty years of central-area change in the City of Kitchener, Ontario focu...
During the late 1960s and early 1970s the Canadian government effected a turnabout in its urban rene...
grantor: University of TorontoThis thesis explores the development of Toronto's settlement...
Acts of domination are not always easy to identify, and in hindsight, the best intentions of post WW...
Many stories of urban renewal schemes are of top-down planning — eradications of whole neighbourhoo...
This dissertation charts the socio-spatial impacts of welfare state reform on the landscape of publi...
This article draws upon the authors’ experiences of community-led regeneration developed while membe...
For a long time, the section of the city in which social welfare, city planning and housing reformer...
This thesis is about municipal social planning in Canada. The purpose of this work is to suggest co...