Self-Building and the Social Geography of Toronto, 1901-1913
A Challenge for Urban Theory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8964180 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Harris (0000-0001-7943-9005, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 387-387 |
| Publication date | 1990-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-2754 • E-ISSN: 1475-5661 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2307/622848 |
| OpenAlex | W2322759750 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 5 |
Little is known about housing market processes and residential patterns in North American cities, 1900-1940. The experience of Toronto, Ontario contradicts the prevailing assumption that in this period suburbs were middle class and that low income households occupied older housing that had filtered down. In Toronto, rapid growth after 1900 created a pattern in 1913 whereby workers were concentrated in the old city core and in a new suburban ring. Filtering was of limited extent. Encouraged by extensive land subdivision and the absence of building regulation, workers' families built their own homes beyond city limits. The residential and tenurial instability of these unplanned suburban districts point to future problems. Toronto's experience was typical of Canadian cities west of Quebec, of US cities in the western and midwestern states, and of cities in Australia and Argentina. It challenges us to be more flexible in the way we conceptualize the housing market under capitalism and to be more specific about the contexts within which particular theories are valid
Civil engineering · Economic geography · Geography · Human geography · Regional science · Social geography · Social science · Sociology · Urban geography · Urban planning · Urban theory · Engineering · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies · Urbanization and City Planning
Building Homes, Building Citizens
Self-provided Housing
The dual land management systems as an influence on physical development outcomes around Kumasi, Ghana
The social geography of Toronto in 1931
Gentrification in a Residential Mobility Framework
The Shantytowns of Central Park West
Where the Working Man Is Welcomed
Canada's All Right
Hamilton's East End
Residential differentiation in nineteenth‐century Fremantle
| Citations per year | 0.29 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1992 - 2013 (22) |
| Highly cited | No |