Preface

Introduction

1 Planning Takes Root, 1940-54

Planning and the War

The City Planning Board

A New Kind of World

Beyond the City

Legacy: The Planners versus the People

2 Planning the Metropolis, 1954-70

The Metropolitan Toronto Planning Board

Planning Suburbia

The Metropolitan Project

Legacy: Metropolitan Planning Achieved

3 Modernizing a Conservative City, 1954-70

Defining the Problems

Planning the Solutions

Cautious Modernization

Legacy: Conservative Modernization

4 Regional Interventions, 1962-76

Conceiving the Plan

Rejecting the Plan

Legacy: The Unplanned Region

5 Planning Transformed, 1968-80

The Roots of Transformation

Planning and Reform

The Demise of Big-Picture Planning

Legacy: Reform Planning

Epilogue: The New Paradigm and the Old

Notes

Bibliography