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

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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. To boost paving, newspapers used their broadsheets to fashion two imagined cities for their readers: one overrun with animals, dirt, and marginal people, the other civilized, modern, and crowned with clean streets. However, the employment of capitalism to generate traditional public goods, such as concrete sidewalks, asphalt roads, regulated pedestrianism, and efficient automobilism, is complicated. Thus, the liberal newspapers' promotion of a city of orderly infrastructure and contented people in actual Toronto proved strikingly illiberal. Consequently, Mackintosh's study reveals the contradictory nature of newspapers and the historiographical complexities of newspaper research. Review "Phillip Mackintosh has very serious doubts about liberalism, and in this study of the debate surrounding the improvements to the street surfaces of Toronto and the actual improvements themselves, he takes aim at the liberal press in the city, in particular at the Globe and the Daily Star (titles still with us, if living rather precariously these days.)" - David Hutchison, Glasgow Caledonian University - British Journal of Canadian Studies, vol 31 no 1 'This book is a worthwhile read for anyone interested in the role of the press in urban reform, or the way in which new infrastructure technologies change the look, feel, and function of the modern city.' - Daniel Ross - Historical Geography vol 45:2017 "Mackintosh brings to life a time when newspapers were essential building blocks in the development of cities. Newspapers provided a common information base for citizens to form opinions about how their city should develop; they were a critical element of democracy even though, as the author suggests, the actual decision makers were an elite group of city burghers closely linked to the newspaper owners." - Beth Haddon - Literary Review of Canada, July/August 2017 About the Author Phillip Gordon Mackintosh is an associate professor in the Department of Geography at Brock University.

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Brand: University of Toronto Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1442646799
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Social & Cultural
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 07 April 2017
Listed Since: 07 October 2016

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