The desire of governments for a'renaissance'of their cities is a defining feature of
contemporary urban policy. From Melbourne and Toronto to Johannesburg and Istanbul …

This paper challenges recent views of the sociospatial transformations of inner‐city
neighbourhoods as 'reurbanisation', for, it is argued, such views tend to divorce the …

In Small Business and the City, Rafael Gomez, Andre Isakov, and Matt Semansky highlight
the power of small-scale entrepreneurship to transform local neighbourhoods and the cities …

The vast majority of city planning literature on informal occupations has focused on how
residents occupy vacant and peripheral land, developing informal structures to address their …

In this paper, we look at the role that public space may take on in the redevelopment of
suburban high-rise buildings in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA). We are …

I examine the tension between and the treatment of the elements of cultural capital within
dynamic mixed-use spaces, and posit that Canada's current noise control and noise …

The deep process of revision needed in managing Toronto and Canadas urban intangible
cultural heritage not only affects redevelopment decisions and cultural policies at the …

This paper discusses practices of “creative placemaking” in Toronto, the complex
relationships that are formed between creative practitioners and the places they create, and …

This dissertation weaves together an examination of the concept and meanings of suburb
and suburban, historical geographies of suburbs and suburbanization, and a detailed focus …

The theme of Toronto as a middle ground has been often referenced by historians and
archaeologists alike:“geographically a meeting point between Canada's vast natural …