Showing posts with label urban history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label urban history. Show all posts
Thursday, June 04, 2026

History of parliament: What would Robert Baldwin say

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" Doug Ford fires PC Caucus Chair " says the Toronto Star headline,   But why doesn't the PC caucus fire Doug Ford instead? Yo...
Wednesday, October 24, 2018

History of Toronto Future

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In the wake of a dispiriting Toronto municipal election, it's bitter-sweet to read Dusty Bookcase 's exploration of a 1967 book ...
Wednesday, March 07, 2018

History of planning Toronto's wildernesses

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Toronto historian planning historian Richard White considers   An Enduring Wilderness by photographer Robert Burley, and how the park...
Wednesday, April 19, 2017

Book Notes: Robert Vipond on one world, one school

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Rob Vipond teaches political science, including Canadian constitutional matters, at the University of Toronto.  He has also been a parent ...
Friday, February 03, 2017

Historians against heritage?

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Tear down these walls? At Active History , urban historian Richard White argues that it is because he is a historian that he opposes ...
Tuesday, June 28, 2016

History of multicultural cities

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What is the most multicultural city in the world?  There is a whole industry in Toronto devoted to supporting its claim, but it is hotly ...
Monday, May 30, 2016

History of Housing: why it cost $1M to get into the Toronto housing market

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Paul Godfrey I've been reading How We Changed Toronto , the political memoir of former one-term Toronto mayor and permanent civic-r...
Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Visual history of Toronto

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Pretty amazing, this City of Toronto time-lapse of the expansion of Toronto 1902-2002.  Time and the city sure speed up after about 1...
Monday, March 28, 2016

Book Review: "a refreshing new interpretation of urban planning in Toronto"

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For this book review, we thank Daniel Ross, a PhD candidate in urban history at York University and an editor of  ActiveHistory.ca   (find ...
Friday, March 04, 2016

Spacing on Toronto urban history, the town hall and market

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A 1985 model of the town hall and market, built at Ryerson U. On the anniversary of the incorporation of the city of Toronto in 1834, ...
Tuesday, August 25, 2015

History and Policy

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Not a Picasso.  A Toronto regional planning concept, 1970 Richard White's Historical Perspectives on Toronto Planning considers a ...
Monday, March 04, 2013

Cool Toronto photos

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Torontoist, the Toronto city blog, recently ran a selection of photos of the city as she was in 1856. The whole run is well worth brow...
Wednesday, September 14, 2011

History of Jane Jacobs

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It's the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Jane Jacob's first and still most renowned city book,  The Death and Life of Gre...