Changing Toronto

by Boudreau, Julie-Anne; Keil, Roger; Young, Douglas

• ISBN13: 9781442600935
• ISBN10: 1442600934
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-05-01
• Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr Higher education

Summary

Changing Torontoexplores the formative years of the New City of Toronto: between 1995 and 2005, the period just before, during, and after metropolitan amalgamation. The authors analyze the political, economic, social, and environmental challenges of living in, and governing, a major metropolitan city region that bills itself as a multicultural, world-class city.The authors have a clear message: the city and its surrounding areas need new forms of regional governance. In working through the political and territorial conflicts of the past ten years, the book argues that Toronto is in need of new modes of regional democracy and decision-making that are both accountable to the rapidly changing and diversifying populations of the area, and effective in providing good government.

Table of Contents

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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