Newspaper City: Toronto's Street Surfaces and the Liberal Press, 1860-1935

by Phillip Gordon Mackintosh

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In Newspaper City, Phillip Gordon Mackintosh scrutinizes the reluctance of early Torontonians to pave their streets. He demonstrates how Toronto's two liberal newspapers, the Toronto Globe and Toronto Daily Star, nevertheless campaigned for surface infrastructure as the leading expression of modern urbanity, despite the broad resistance of property owners to pay for infrastructure improvements under local improvements by-laws...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1442646799

ISBN13:9781442646797

Release Date:April 2017

Publisher:University of Toronto Press

Length:368 Pages

Weight:1.50 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.4" x 9.2"

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