What is included with this book?
Preface | p. 9 |
List of Figures, Tables, and Maps | p. 11 |
Acknowledgements | p. 13 |
Canada Urbana: Perspectives of Urban Research | p. 17 |
Urban Neoliberalization and the Canadian City | p. 22 |
Why Focus on Urban Neoliberalization? | p. 23 |
The Political Economy of Urban Neoliberalism | p. 25 |
The Foucauldian Critique: Explaining Urban Neoliberalism with Changing Technologies of Power | p. 28 |
The Urban, the Everyday, and Neoliberalism | p. 29 |
Everydayness and Urban Resistance | p. 31 |
Urbanized Neoliberalism in Canada | p. 32 |
The Structure of the Book | p. 32 |
The City That Works (No More): Towards the Crisis of the Mid-1990s | p. 39 |
Locating Toronto | p. 43 |
The Agony of the Middle Classes | p. 46 |
Civility and Heterogeneity | p. 48 |
Conclusion | p. 49 |
Tory Toronto: Neoliberalism in the City | p. 53 |
The Short Life and Times of Urban Neoliberalism | p. 53 |
Toronto in the 1990s: Dissociated Governance | p. 54 |
The Common Sense Revolution in Ontario | p. 58 |
Urban Neoliberalism in Toronto | p. 60 |
Changing the Space of Politics | p. 60 |
The Reluctant Global City Strategy | p. 61 |
Bourgeois Urbanism | p. 61 |
The Re-scaling of the Urban Imaginary | p. 62 |
Ecological Modernization | p. 64 |
New Social Disparities | p. 65 |
Conclusion: From Defense to Resistance | p. 65 |
Making the Megacity | p. 69 |
The Story of Amalgamation | p. 71 |
The Transition and Early Growing Pains | p. 76 |
From a Struggle Against Amalgamation to Mobilization for a City-region | p. 78 |
Conclusion | p. 83 |
Diverse-City | p. 85 |
Toronto the Good: Multicultural Politics and Identity | p. 88 |
Reality Check: The Racialization of Poverty | p. 91 |
Crisis of Multiculturalism | p. 92 |
The Challenge Ahead: Afro-centred Schools and the Threat of Re-segregation | p. 97 |
Conclusion | p. 98 |
Official Planning | p. 99 |
A New Official Plan: Getting Started | p. 100 |
The New Plan | p. 102 |
De-Democratization of Planning | p. 108 |
Beauty and the Growth Machine | p. 110 |
Minto Midtown | p. 111 |
Resisting the Aestheticization of Planning | p. 114 |
Re-planning the Region | p. 115 |
Conclusion | p. 118 |
The In-between City | p. 119 |
A Case Study of the In-between City in Toronto: Jane-Finch | p. 122 |
In-between Modernity and Post-modernity | p. 124 |
Modern idea # 1: Public Housing | p. 124 |
Modern idea # 2: Experimentation in Planning and Urban Design | p. 125 |
Modern idea # 3: Immigration Policy | p. 126 |
The Branding of Jane-Finch | p. 126 |
Who Lives in the In-between City of Jane-Finch? | p. 127 |
Perception of Crime | p. 128 |
Social Housing | p. 130 |
Black Creek West Community Capacity Building Project | p. 134 |
Strong Neighbourhoods/Neighbourhood Action | p. 136 |
Conclusion | p. 140 |
Urinetown or Morainetown? | p. 141 |
Neoliberalization and Nature in Ontario | p. 144 |
Histories of (Sub-) Urbanization and Water | p. 145 |
Water and Privatization in Canada | p. 147 |
Water and the City | p. 148 |
Toronto | p. 150 |
Water, Development, and Growth in the GTA | p. 151 |
The View from the Centre: Toronto | p. 152 |
Markham's Suburban Water Regime | p. 155 |
Conclusion | p. 158 |
Transportation Dilemmas | p. 161 |
Global City Transportation | p. 162 |
A New Urban Geography | p. 163 |
Toronto Pearson International Airport | p. 166 |
Servicing the Capillaries: Getting Around in the Global City | p. 169 |
Government Transport Policy | p. 174 |
Federal Transportation Policy | p. 174 |
Provincial Transportation Policy | p. 175 |
Local Transportation Policy | p. 176 |
Regional Governance and Transportation: The Search for Collective Agency | p. 176 |
Conclusion | p. 180 |
Creative Competitiveness | p. 183 |
The Creative City Program: Richard Florida Comes to Toronto When Harris's Neoliberal Conservatism Begins to Backfire | p. 183 |
Creativity After Austerity: Impacts on Governance | p. 190 |
Toronto, Inc.: Global Competitiveness for the City-region | p. 195 |
Conclusion | p. 197 |
Millermania | p. 199 |
Taking out the Broom | p. 199 |
From Small Town Common Sense to Neoreformism in the Global City | p. 202 |
The Millermania Continues? | p. 208 |
Changing Toronto | p. 213 |
References | p. 223 |
Index | p. 238 |
About the Authors | p. 248 |
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