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  • Streetcars and the Shifting Geographies of Toronto

    A Visual Analysis of Change

    by Brian Doucet, Michael Doucet ...
    When looking at old pictures of Toronto, it is clear that the city’s urban, economic, and social geography has changed dramatically over the generations. Historic photos of Toronto’s streetcar network offer a unique opportunity to examine how the city has been transformed from a provincial, industrial city into one of North America’s largest and most diverse regions.Streetcars and the Shifting ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • Unbuilt Toronto

    A History of the City That Might Have Been

    by Mark Osbaldeston ...
    Series Book 1 - The City That Might Have Been
    Unbuilt Toronto explores never-realized building projects in and around Toronto, from the citys founding to the twenty-first century. Delving into unfulfilled and largely forgotten visions for grand public buildings, landmark skyscrapers, highways, subways, and arts and recreation venues, it outlines such ambitious schemes as St. Alban's Cathedral, the Queen subway line and early city plans that ... Read more

    $10.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unbuilt Toronto 2

    More of the City That Might Have Been

    by Mark Osbaldeston ...
    Series Book 2 - The City That Might Have Been
    Quill & Quire cited Unbuilt Toronto as a book filled with "well-researched, often gripping tales of grand plans," while Canadian Architect said that it is "an impressively researched exploration of never-realized architectural and master-planning projects intended for the city." Now Unbuilt Toronto 2 provides an all-new, fascinating return to the "Toronto that might have been."Discover the ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • House Divided

    Edited by Alex Bozikovic, Cheryll Case, John Lorinc, Annabel Vaughan ...
    A citizen's guide to making the big city a place where we can afford to live. Housing is increasingly unattainable in successful global cities, and Toronto is no exception - in part because of zoning that protects "stable" residential neighborhoods with high property values. House Divided is a citizen's guide for changing the way housing can work in big cities. Using Toronto as a case study, this ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Toronto Sprawls

    A History

    by Lawrence Solomon ...
    With a landmass of approximately 7000 square kilometres and a population of roughly five million, the Greater Toronto Area is Canada's largest metropolitan centre. How did a small nineteenth-century colonial capital become this sprawling urban giant, and how did government policies shape the contours of its landscape?In Toronto Sprawls, Lawrence Solomon examines the great migration from farms to ... Read more

    $29.49 USD

  • Shape of the Suburbs

    Understanding Toronto's Sprawl

    by John Sewell ...
    It is now impossible to understand major North American cities without considering the seemingly never-ending and ever-growing sprawl of their surrounding suburbs. In The Shape of the Suburbs, activist, urban affairs columnist, and former Toronto mayor John Sewell examines the relationship between the development of suburbs, water and sewage systems, highways, and the decision-making of Toronto ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Toronto Book of Everything

    by Nate Hendley, Karen Lloyd ...
    Series series Book of Everything
    From Hogtown to capital city and Leafs Nation, from cold wet winters to desperately humid summers, from Blackberry-addicted Bay Street financiers to profiles of Ed Mirvish, Glenn Gould, David Cronenberg and Rush, no book is more comprehensive than the Toronto Book of Everything. No book is more fun!Well-known Torontonians weigh in on what they love about their city. Linda Leatherdale reveals her ... Read more

    $9.59 USD

  • The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City

    by Alan Ehrenhalt ...
    In The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City we travel the nation with Alan Ehrenhalt, one of our leading urbanists, as he explains how America’s cities are changing, what makes them succeed or fail, and what this means for our future.Just a couple of decades ago, we took it for granted that inner cities were the preserve of immigrants and the poor, and that suburbs were the chosen ... Read more

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  • How to Move to Canada

    A Primer for Americans

    by Terese Loeb Kreuzer, Carol Bennett ...
    An "easy-to-follow and comprehensive" step-by-step guide for US citizens who want to emigrate to Canada ( Publishers Weekly ).More and more Americans are thinking of moving to Canada to find a job, attend colleges and universities, peace of mind—even retirement—and whatever their motivations, they will have to navigate the Canadian immigration, citizenship, and naturalization processes.So whether ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The TTC Story

    The First Seventy-five Years

    by Mike Filey ...
    Looking back over the past 75 years, there is no doubt that public transportation has played a major role in the development and maturing of Toronto and its metropolitan area. Indeed , despite the fiscal challenges facing it, the TTC today remains a transit agency with an enviable reputation.The TTC Story:The First Seventy-five Years, by Mike Filey, features over one hundred magnificent black and ... Read more

    $7.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Vanishing Vancouver

    The Last 25 Years

    by Michael Kluckner ...
    Award-winning author and artist Michael Kluckner takes another look at a city where the only thing that doesn't seem to change is the rapid pace of development. The original Vanishing Vancouver, published in 1990, explored Vancouver's changing landscape by neighbourhood, from the earliest dwellings to the aftershocks of Expo '86. Its light-filled watercolours and well-informed prose spoke to the ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Unbuilt Calgary

    A History of the City That Might Have Been

    by Stephanie White ...
    Series Book 4 - The City That Might Have Been
    Calgary is a typical boom-and-bust town that was first based on ranching and farming, then oil and gas, and now energy. And energy is what its citizens have, whether for skiing, work, or construction. It is a city that leaps ahead eagerly to new futures and rarely looks back., but Calgary can also be an unsentimental city, discarding its ideas, plans, and buildings with ease.Unbuilt Calgary is a ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus