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Governance and Social Well-Being in the Toronto Area: Past Achievements and Future Challenges

Canadian Journal of Urban Research, 1999, Vol.8 (1), p.96-99 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

1999 Institute of Urban Studies ;Copyright Institute for Urban Studies Jun 1999 ;ISSN: 1188-3774 ;EISSN: 2371-0292

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  • Title:
    Governance and Social Well-Being in the Toronto Area: Past Achievements and Future Challenges
  • Author: Leo, Christopher
  • Subjects: Planning & development ; Politics & government ; Social conditions & trends
  • Is Part Of: Canadian Journal of Urban Research, 1999, Vol.8 (1), p.96-99
  • Description: The study begins by identifying three characteristics to which "Toronto owes much of its reputation as an urban success story..." These three are "[1] ... the persistent economic vitality and social well-being of the ... downtown core and inner residential areas ... [2] relative uniformity ... of ... services provided ... to ... residents of the entire GTA [Greater Toronto Area] ... [3] a public transit system that has performed more effectively and efficiently (in terms of ridership and cost-recovery) than all others in North America." In the past, the argument continues, Metropolitan Toronto was able to ameliorate the dangers inherent in these trends by ensuring a dispersal of low-cost housing throughout Metro Toronto, providing effective public transit, even in suburban communities, and pooling tax revenues to ensure a decent standard of social services, education, and other municipal services in both the poorer and wealthier Metro municipalities. The authors observe: While the study clearly lays the primary blame for these changes on provincial governments, a brief book review cannot do justice to the subtlety and complexity of their first-class analysis. They point out, for example, that Metro Toronto bore part of the blame for the failure to extend transit to the GTA fringe, that the former City of Toronto (now downtown Toronto) never was willing to share the tax revenues it garnered from office towers, and that wealthy school boards rejected proposals for the pooling of commercial taxes. The problems the Greater Toronto Area now faces are not the fault of the province alone. There is plenty of blame to go around.
  • Publisher: Winnipeg: Institute of Urban Studies
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 1188-3774
    EISSN: 2371-0292
  • Source: AUTh Library subscriptions: ProQuest Central
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