Publications

Richard White’s Planning Toronto: The Planners, The Plans, Their Legacies, 1940-80, has been named winner of the Ontario Historical Society’s 2017 Fred Landon Award as the “best book on local or regional history in Ontario published in the last three years.”

Available on-line from UBC Press at: http://www.ubcpress.ca/planning-toronto

What readers have said:

“… highly accomplished in its research and analysis … White handles the defeat of modernist planning and the rise of citizen activism in Toronto with real insight …”

“… a persuasive account of city planning in that era that is both measured and well-informed, as well as being a pleasure to read.”

“… rich in historical memory, solid in useful scholarship, and engaging in the sweep of its narrative … provides future practitioners and citizen-participants alike with vital lessons from the past to inform their imaginings of the future.”

“… assesses what planners really did and did not do – and why … planning history that makes you think.”

 

Related academic publications (available in libraries and through various websites)

“Toronto’s Inner Suburbs Through the Lens of Planning History” Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien 38 (2018) [written, expanded version of keynote address presented to the conference of  the Association for Canadian Studies in German-speaking Countries, February 2017]

“Financing the Golden Age: Municipal Finance in Toronto, 1950-1975”, IMFG Papers on Municipal Finance and Governance, No.29 (2016)

“Urban Renewal Revisited: Toronto, 1950-1970”, Canadian Historical Review, Vol 97, No 1

“Toronto, An American City: Aspects of its Postwar Planning, 1940-1960”, American Review of Canadian Studies, Vol 44, No 1

“Jane Jacobs and Toronto, 1968-1978”, Journal of Planning History, Vol 10, No 2; revised and republished internationally as “Jane Jacobs and the Paradigm Shift: Toronto, 1968-1978”, in Dirk Schubert, ed., Looking Backward to Step Forward: Jane Jacobs and Paradigm Shifts in Urban Planning and Urban Redevelopment (Ashgate 2013)

“Sprawl: The View from Toronto”, review essay, Journal of Planning History, Vol 8, No 3