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Newspaper City: Toronto´s Street Surfaces and the Liberal Press, 1860-1935
Phillip Gordon Mackintosh
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Hardback. In Newspaper City, Phillip Gordon Mackintosh scrutinizes the reluctance of early Torontonians to pave their streets. Consequently, Mackintosh's study reveals the contradictory nature of newspapers and the historiographical complexities of newspaper research. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBJK; HBTB; HBTP; JF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
1g
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442646797
SKU
V9781442646797
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Ref
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About Phillip Gordon Mackintosh
Phillip Gordon Mackintosh is an associate professor in the Department of Geography at Brock University.
Reviews for Newspaper City: Toronto´s Street Surfaces and the Liberal Press, 1860-1935
'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 ... Read more