Toronto among North American cities. A historical perspective on the present

Lemon, James T.

doi:10.3138/9781487580216-014

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“…A more detailed study of the politics of cultural policy in Toronto is available in . Against the backdrop of a strong Victorian heritage suspicious of public amusement (Lemon 1984), large-scale cultural development began in Toronto, and Canada, around the national centennial in 1967. Artist groups, often with counterculture sensibilities, won grants for homegrown Canadian culture.…”

Section: Buzz In Toronto Local Politicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Buzz as an Urban Resource

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Clark

2013

Can. J. Soc.

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The global rise of arts and culture is transforming local politics. Though new to many academic urban analysts, this is a commonplace for many mayors and local policy makers around the world. We seek to overcome this divide by joining culture and the arts with classic concepts of urban politics. We offer an analytical framework incorporating the politics of cultural policy alongside the typical political economic concerns in the urban politics and development literatures. Our framework synthesizes several research streams that combine in global factors driving the articulation of culture into city politics. This frames our studies of the local processes through which this articulation occurs on the ground in Toronto.

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Section: Buzz In Toronto Local Politicsmentioning

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Buzz as an Urban Resource

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Clark

2013

Can. J. Soc.

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“…In response to these challenges, and drawing on wartime experience in economic management, as well as political support for the concept, both from the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, a new democratic socialist party, and from the city's economic elite, there emerged in Toronto greater interest in creating a plan to guide its future growth. 16 This interest in planning was not, in Canada, unique to Toronto but was widespread within the provincial and the federal governments. The Ontario provincial government, for example, created in 1944 a Department of Planning and Development and passed a Planning Act in 1946, which required cities to establish planning bodies responsible for producing official plans.…”

Section: Planning For Postwar Torontomentioning

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“…And, second, with Toronto once being viewed as an example of successful urban governance, it is of interest to consider what roles experts, and the intended and unintended consequences of their advice, played in achieving this success and in constructing the image of success itself. 1 It is appropriate, however, to begin this study of Toronto by outlining a broader perspective on the roles of experts within cities.…”

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Constructing Urban Expertise

Bocking

2006

Journal of Urban History

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Between 1940 and 1970, the population of the Toronto metropolitan region increased rapidly. This imposed new infrastructure demands, particularly for sewer, water supply, and transportation systems, and encouraged comprehensive approaches to planning and flood control. Several forms of expertise emerged to guide responses to these demands, of which three are considered here: engineering of urban services, planning of new communities, and watershed conservation. Each form of expertise had close ties to public- or private-sector institutions; collectively, they reinforced prevailing views concerning the public interest and the role of technocratic expertise. They also demonstrated how a city’s expert and political orders could be constitutive of each other, with the planning and building of infrastructure by government and the private sector creating the contexts for applying expertise, which, in turn, justified expansion of the city’s administrative functions.

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“…Toronto is now the most ethnically diverse city in Canada with over one third of its population born overseas. Such diversity is a fairly recent phenomenon, however, as Toronto's population remained predominantly Protestant and of British descent until after the Second World War (Lemon, 1984). The development of the city's police force clearly reflects this highly sectarian past, with the Protestant Orange Lodges maintaining a strangle-hold on access to jobs well into the 1920s (Houston & Smyth, 1980;Kealey, 1988;Rogers, 1984).…”

Section: Police-community Relations In Torontomentioning

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“…Toronto has long been regarded as a paragon among North American cities (Lemon, 1984). Caricatured as Toronto-the-Good, the city that works, its crime rates are well below those of comparably-sized US cities (Goldberg & Mercer, 1986).…”

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Constructions of Criminality: Police‐community Relations in Toronto

Jackson

1994

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S Long considered a safe and tolerant city, Toronto has been shaken during the last ten years by a series of incidents involving the police and black people which has led to a serious deterioration in police‐community relations. Drawing on evidence submitted to the 1989 Ontario Task Force on Race Relations and Policing, on newspaper reports and local interviews, this paper criticizes some commonsense constructions of the relationship between “race”, crime and policing. Rejecting conventional explanations of “ethnic criminality” and personal prejudice, the paper focuses on the question of institutional racism within the police force.

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Toronto among North American cities. A historical perspective on the present

Cited by 8 publications

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Buzz as an Urban Resource

Buzz as an Urban Resource

Constructing Urban Expertise

Constructions of Criminality: Police‐community Relations in Toronto

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