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Toronto.Inc.? Planning the competitive city in the new Toronto
Author(s): Stefan Kipfer, Roger Keil
Publication Date: 2002
This paper analyses recent developments in urban planning in the City of Toronto. A municipality of 2.4 million inhabitants that makes up the inner half of the Greater Toronto Area, the City of Toronto was consolidated from seven municipalities in 1998. Planning practice, discourse, and “vision” in the new City of Toronto are shaped by the city’s bid for the 2008 Olympics, related proposals for waterfront redevelopment, and preparations for a new...
Still Planning to Be Different? Toronto at the Turn of the Millennium
Author(s): Roger Keil, Stefan Kipfer
Publication Date: 2000
Toronto is the largest and most populous city in Canada. The metropolis on Lake Ontario has a land area of 622 square kilometres and a population of 2.4 million. After the city was consolidated from previously seven municipalities in 1998, City Council has endorsed the preparation of a new Official Plan. In this paper, we trace the traditions and current challenges of planning reform in Toronto in light of the current process of official plan rev...
Globalization makes states: perspectives of local governance in the age of the world city
Author(s): Roger Keil
Publication Date: 1998
This article discusses perspectives of local agency in the age of the world city. It presents a brief critique of the debate on globalization and posits that globalization makes states. This includes a discussion of the local state as a complex creature of state and civil society, of the regulatory power of the urban and of the world city as a site of the emergence of the post-national state. While it can be argued that globalization hollows out...