While most scholars generally focus on the failings of the post–WWI Federal-Provincial housing scheme in Canada, we contend that it had far-reaching implications for three major facets of urbanism: housing policy, town planning, and residential architecture. We do so primarily through an examination of the impacts of the Ontario Housing Act, 1919, in the context of contemporary visions of ideal residential environments.In the 1920s, a major reconceptualization of planning and architecture generated a new ideology of house, home and city which intended to remake existing cities and to create new, efficient and healthy settlements. The ideal city featured increasingly similar, but separate, working-and middle-class homes and neighbourhoods, a...
Much has been written on postwar suburbs in North America, and their impact on society. What are mis...
I offer a cultural history of planned, exclusive suburbs designed and developed between 1877 and 191...
This dissertation examines the discursive production of new developments and the reinvention of subu...
While most scholars generally focus on the failings of the post-WWI Federal-Provincial housing schem...
The garden suburb of Lindenlea in Ottawa was designed by Thomas Adams and built by the Ottawa Housin...
This paper traces the evolution of reform ideology in the housing sphere in the first half of the tw...
In 1945, Marshall Foss began construction of Thorncrest Village, a subdivision in Etobicoke j...
In 1919, the federal government initiated a housing scheme to finance and construct war veterans' a...
Previous research has shown that the economic growth and urban population increases which occurred i...
This study examines the financing of housing production and consumption in five early twentieth-cent...
The production of housing underwent significant change in Canada's metropolis during the nineteenth ...
Historians of public housing have recently drawn attention to the ways in which housing designs are ...
This article looks at how city planners distinguished themselves from the broader urban reform movem...
Suburbs that developed in metropolitan Canada post-World War II have historically been depicted as h...
Over four decades beginning in the 1890s, the east-end Toronto district now known as “The Beach” was...
Much has been written on postwar suburbs in North America, and their impact on society. What are mis...
I offer a cultural history of planned, exclusive suburbs designed and developed between 1877 and 191...
This dissertation examines the discursive production of new developments and the reinvention of subu...
While most scholars generally focus on the failings of the post-WWI Federal-Provincial housing schem...
The garden suburb of Lindenlea in Ottawa was designed by Thomas Adams and built by the Ottawa Housin...
This paper traces the evolution of reform ideology in the housing sphere in the first half of the tw...
In 1945, Marshall Foss began construction of Thorncrest Village, a subdivision in Etobicoke j...
In 1919, the federal government initiated a housing scheme to finance and construct war veterans' a...
Previous research has shown that the economic growth and urban population increases which occurred i...
This study examines the financing of housing production and consumption in five early twentieth-cent...
The production of housing underwent significant change in Canada's metropolis during the nineteenth ...
Historians of public housing have recently drawn attention to the ways in which housing designs are ...
This article looks at how city planners distinguished themselves from the broader urban reform movem...
Suburbs that developed in metropolitan Canada post-World War II have historically been depicted as h...
Over four decades beginning in the 1890s, the east-end Toronto district now known as “The Beach” was...
Much has been written on postwar suburbs in North America, and their impact on society. What are mis...
I offer a cultural history of planned, exclusive suburbs designed and developed between 1877 and 191...
This dissertation examines the discursive production of new developments and the reinvention of subu...