Overview

When manufacturers and retailers vacate traditional locations, they leave holes in a city's fabric that signal a shifting urban-industrial terrain. Who should mend these spaces, and how should they approach the problem? Using Toronto's Dundas Square and surrounding area as a case study, Thinking Planning and Urbanism meticulously reconstructs the redevelopment process to explore the theories and practices used. It traces the labyrinth of competing interests that can sideline and nearly overwhelm the public planning function. In these circumstances, Moore Milroy concludes, practising planners are marooned by planning theories that begin from the premise that urban space is a social construction and only secondarily a function of technology and aesthetics. This book makes plain the nature of the gap between the practice of planning and its theories, a gap that inhibits planners from effectively championing creative actions to deal with postindustrial problems. The findings drawn from this case will be widely recognized in redevelopment elsewhere and thus will be extremely useful to students and practitioners of urban design, public administration, municipal law, and urban and regional planning.

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Author:   Beth Moore Milroy
Publisher:   University of British Columbia Press
Imprint:   University of British Columbia Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.50cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.540kg
ISBN:  

9780774816151

ISBN 10:   0774816155
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   01 January 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Adult education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations 1 Opening 2 History (with Nik Luka) 3 Regenerating 4 Redeveloping 5 Defending 6 Implementing 7 Closing Appendix 1 Selected elements of the planning framework Appendix 2 Chronology Appendix 3 Basic characteristics of the planning area Appendix 4 Socioeconomic information about the planning area Appendix 5 Seven development options, Yonge and Dundas area, December 1996 Appendix 6 Financial plan and costing scenarios, Yonge and Dundas area, December 1996 Appendix 7 Issues raised at public meetings and via correspondence regarding the redevelopment scheme, spring 1997 Appendix 8 Bylaws before the Joint Board Appendix 9 Decision of the Joint Board: Jurisdiction, conclusions and findings, decision and conditions, and obiter dicta Appendix 10 Sample calendar of events at Nathan Phillips Square, January to July 2000 Notes References Index

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Beth Moore Milroy, professor emerita, is former director of the School of Urban and Regional Planning at Ryerson University and a Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Planners.

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