Though I had been living only twenty miles across Lake Ontario, in Rochester, New York, I imagined Toronto to be a quaint old fishing village with a large and famous university settled improbably in the middle of it. This misperception—not less absurd, because unquestioned—is nor unusual among Americans, who tend to have odd ideas about Canada in any case.
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"This book takes us on a brilliantly conceived and thoroughly idiosyncratic walking tour of Canada's biggest metropolis. With the author as our guide, we discover anew the places city dwellers encounter every day, travelling beyond and beneath the obvious landmarks to discover Toronto's metropolitan soul. From the unexpected beauty of industrial sites to civic icons like the Dome and Maple Leaf Gardens, Mays never fails to delight and inform as he uncovers the archaeology of memory that lies in the urban landscape." - WorldCat
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Emerald City: Toronto visited
1995, Penguin Books Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada: Penguin Books Canada, Limited
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Emerald City: Toronto visited
September 1994, Viking - Penguin Group - Canada Ltd, Ltd, USA inc., Australia Ltd, (NZ) Ltd
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION: Finding the Emerald City xvi
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Thinking Places
The Port Industrial District 1
The John Inglis Plant 8
Canada Malting 15
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On the Land
The Shape of the City 22
Living with what is 27
Dwelling and the Group of Seven 33
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Binding and Loosing the Waters
Last Streams 39
The Don River Forgotten 42
Garrison Creek 46
The Don Remembering 51
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Tales of the Pioneers
Unromancing Fort York 55
Black creek pinoeer village 60
Weston 64
About William Gilpin 70
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Pleasures in Places
Christmas at Colborne Lodge 76
Unknown Gardens 79
St. James’ Cemetery 82
Mount Pleasant 87
The ex 91
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Modern
The Crystal City of Hugh Ferriss 101
The Toronto-Dominion Centre 106
Lesser Modern 114
Confederation Life 118
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Shopping
Parkdale 125
The Golden Mile 130
Mall Endurance 135
Eaton Centre 139
Ssones from the Underworld 143
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Suburban Idylls
Revisting Mississauga 153
The Strangest House on Parkhurst Boulevard 156
Don Mills 159
The Trouble with Scarborough 163
Trouble in North York 168
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Concrete Dreams
Car Architecture 174
The Gardiner 179
Burying the Gardiner 182
The Motel Strip 185
Concrete Realities 189
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Streets
Forsaking Kensington Market 194
Now Finding Main Street 198
The exp of University Avenue 201
The burying of the wires 205
Christmas Lights 208
Lanewars 210
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Gardens
Grounds and Front Gardens 216
Essential Urban Gardening 221
Allan Gardens 228
And then there are Lawns 232
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Moral Management
999 Queen 237
The Boardwalk 241
High Park 244
Banking 248
The Robarts 252
The Skydome 257
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Moderne Variations
The R.C. Harris filtration plant 266
620 University Avenue 269
The Horse Palace 272
Maple Leaf Gardens 275
Park Lane 278
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High Styles
Gothic 284
Romanesque 288
Byzantium and St. Anne's 293
Classical 296
Cybernetic 302
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Houses and Home
At Home 307
Casa Loma 310
Monster Houses 314
Castle Hill 317
Sonic City 320
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At the Edge
Heartland 326
Nowhere 329
Prospects for the Middle 332
Edge Cities 335
York 339
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Sources And Resources 347
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