The Ritual of the Streets in Mid-19th-Century Toronto

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ID4476067
AuthorsPeter G Goheen (Queen's University, corresponding author)
Year1993
Volume11
Issue2
Pages127-145
Publication date1993-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1068/d110127
OpenAlexW1983184955
LanguageEN
Citations received27
References cited30

The central streets of mid-19th-century Toronto, the principal public open spaces of the city, were the preferred place for enacting a wide variety of demonstrations which ranged from well-organized official processions to informal and even violent crowd scenes, Their use for these rituals of collective behaviour followed a tradition, still honoured at mid-century, of almost unhindered public accessibility to the streets. The claims which groups asserted for the use and enjoyment of this symbolic space, and the responses of the inhabitants and city government to the exercise of these rights, reveal the process by which the community adjudicated social conflict and built consensus through the manipulation and control of a valuable collective asset: the streets

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