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An incisive view of Toronto’s development over the last fifty years.
In Toronto Reborn, Ken Greenberg describes the emerging contours of a new Toronto. Focusing on the period from 1970 to the present, Greenberg looks at how the work and decisions of citizens, NGOs, businesses, and governments have combined to refashion Toronto. Individually and collectively, their actions — renovating buildings and neighbourhoods, building startling new structures and urban spaces, revitalizing old cultural institutions and creating new ones, sponsoring new festivals and events — have transformed the old postwar city, changing it into an exciting modern one.
In Toronto Reborn, Ken Greenberg describes the emerging contours of a new Toronto. Focusing on the period from 1970 to the present, Greenberg looks at how the work and decisions of citizens, NGOs, businesses, and governments have combined to refashion Toronto. Individually and collectively, their actions — renovating buildings and neighbourhoods, building startling new structures and urban spaces, revitalizing old cultural institutions and creating new ones, sponsoring new festivals and events — have transformed the old postwar city, changing it into an exciting modern one.
Price: $27.00
Pages: 344
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Publication Date:
04 June 2019
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781459743076
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
City-building is not a job for those who want instant gratification. Ken Greenberg has been playing the urbanism long-game for six decades — his forethought and instincts on display in Toronto Reborn have been proven correct and the city is now reaping the rewards. But make no mistake: the challenges and obstacles facing Toronto, both political and environmental, are real and only intensifying. Ken has made those issues crystal clear and it’s up to the next generation of civic leaders to continue to point our city in the right direction.
Ken Greenberg is an urban designer, teacher, and writer, whose passion and advocacy for the city over the past decades has involved him in virtually every aspect of its remarkable transformation. He lives in Toronto.
- Maps
- Foreword by David Crombie
- Prefece
- Introduction: Toronto as Crucible
- PART ONE: ON THE GROUND
- 1 How Change Appears
- 2 Neighbourhoods Coalesce
- 3 Changing how we Move
- 4 Expanding Common Ground
- 5 The City in Nature
- 6 Institutions as City Builders
- 7 Suburbs Become Urban
- 8 New Frontier on the Waterfront
- PART TWO: A NEW CITY
- 9 The Threads Come Together
- 10 Unleashing the Power of the City
- 11 The Chance to Be Our Best Selves
- Afterwordby Zahra Ebrahim
- Acknowledgments
- Image Credits
- Index