Inside the mosaic Fong, Eric
Inside the mosaic,
c2006, 20060515, 2006, 2014, 2006-01-01, 20060101
eBook
The majority of recent immigrants to Canada have chosen to settle in large cities and immigrants have become an integral part of the country's urban experience. How the presence of immigrants shapes ...the urban structures, and social processes of large cities, and how these structures and processes affect immigrants' ability to adapt to their new surroundings, are the dual foci of Eric Fong'sInside the Mosaic, a collaborative and detailed assessment of immigration in Canada from some of the field's top minds.
Focusing on Toronto, the contributors explore residential patterns, physical environment, family structures, social networks, and health. Their findings clearly demonstrate that the relationships of immigration with urban structures and group processes are multi-faceted, and that the integration process of today's immigrant groups is complex.
Toronto has benefited greatly from successive waves of immigration, but this has never negated the difficulty faced by the city in making adjustments to accommodate newcomers, nor the difficulties faced by immigrants in creating new lives.Inside the Mosaicis an essential tool for understanding the struggle faced by both the city and its new residents, which will bring clarity to a subject that has historically been fraught with divergent views.
Contributors:Joe DardenEric FongNancy HowellJanet LumWilliam MichelsonEmi OokaJeffrey G. ReitzJanet W. SalaffJacinth Tracey-WortleyJack VeugelersBarry WellmanBlair Wheaton
Civic symbol Armstrong, Christopher
Civic symbol,
2015, 20150908, 2015, 2015-09-08, 2015-09-15
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"When Toronto's New City Hall opened in 1965, it was an iconic modernist symbol for what was still a sedate and conservative city. Its futuristic design by Finnish architect Viljo Revell, composed of ...two curved towers flanking a clam-shaped council chamber, remains as strange and distinctive today as it did fifty years ago. In Civic Symbol, Christopher Armstrong chronicles the complex and controversial development of this urban landmark from the initial international competition to the many debates that surrounded its construction and furnishing. Armstrong catalogs the many twists and turns along the path from idea to reality for the extraordinary building that Frank Lloyd Wright claimed future generations would say "marks the spot where Toronto fell." Lavishly illustrated with contemporary photographs, plans, and drawings, Civic Symbol is the essential history of this iconic Canadian building."--
The shape of the suburbs Sewell, John
The shape of the suburbs,
c2009, 20160414, 2016, 2009, 2016-04-14, 2009-04-25, 20090101
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John Sewell examines the relationship between the development of suburbs, water and sewage systems, highways, and the decision-making of Toronto-area governments to show how the suburbs spread, and ...how they have in turn shaped the city.
Based on the rich fund of documents housed in the University of Toronto archives, Varsity's Soldiers offers the first full-length history of military training in Toronto.
Armed with the motto "Diversity Our Strength," the City of
Toronto has garnered a world-class reputation for challenging
racism, largely because of how it is seen to value and include
racialized ...groups through its diversity policies and practices.
Toronto the Good? unsettles popular depictions of both
diversity and the City of Toronto by attending to what diversity
does in and for the City in the context of historical relations of
race.
Toronto the Good? brings together Shana Almeida's
critical insights as a former political staff member along with her
years of in-depth research on diversity in the City of Toronto to
offer a compelling case to rethink how we understand diversity and
racial inclusion in the City of Toronto and beyond. Initiated in a
local context, Toronto the Good? c ritically contributes to
global discussions on diversity, race, democracy, political
participation, and power.
The world in a city Anisef, Paul; Lanphier, Michael
The world in a city,
c2003, 20030827, 2017, 2003, 2014
eBook
Toronto does not provide a level 'playing field' for its newly arrived inhabitants, and, in failing to recognize the particular needs of new communities, fails to ensure a growth that would be of ...immense benefit to the city as a whole.
Based on in-depth interviews and extensive observation, her study provides a richly detailed overview of the major cultural institutions in the lives of Afro-Caribbean residents of Toronto
Streetcars and the Shifting Geographies of Toronto
visually compares historic and contemporary images of different
parts of Toronto to better understand how and why the city has
changed.
Changing Toronto Boudreau, Julie-Anne; Keil, Roger; Young, Douglas
Changing Toronto,
2009, 2009, 2009-05-01
eBook
By exploring the formative years of the New City of Toronto (between 1995 and 2005, the period just before, during, and after metropolitan amalgamation), Changing Toronto analyzes the political, ...social, and environmental challenges of living in, and governing, a major metropolitan city region that bills itself as a multicultural, world-class city.
