Urban Studies / Toronto & GTA

The Scene explores the dynamic Toronto art scene of the 1960s, highlighting the role of new collectors and private galleries, profiling key artists, and scrutinizing the transformation of major art institutions.

Reclaiming the Don traces the history of the Don River Valley, from the establishment of the town of York to the construction of the Don Valley Parkway and beyond.

Highlighting an important yet often ignored part of Toronto’s transportation story, Wheeling through Toronto chronicles the history of the bicycle and reveals a way forward for a world in climate crisis.

Drawing on extensive research from a multiplicity of sources, this book offers a new, original history of the founding and evolution of an iconic Toronto neighbourhood: the Beaches.

A Night at the Gardens examines the history of hockey through the experiences of spectators at the famed Maple Leaf Gardens.

This book reveals the fascinating history of how and why people gathered in the streets of Victorian Toronto – both in jubilation and in anger.

What can we learn from the COVID-19 pandemic and its devastating effects on the homeless population in Toronto? Displacement City shares the stories of frontline workers, advocates, and people living without homes during this unprecedented crisis.

Renowned author Franca Iacovetta provides a new perspective on multiculturalism by examining the hopes and challenges of women activists associated with the Toronto International Institute.

Streetcars and the Shifting Geographies of Toronto visually compares historic and contemporary images of different parts of Toronto to better understand how and why the city has changed.

This book offers a thorough account of the attitudes and behaviour of electors towards the 2014 Toronto Mayoral Election.

Written over a period of more than two decades, Colour Matters is a collection of essays that shows how race informs the aspirational pursuits of Black youth in the Greater Toronto Area.

Accidental Wilderness showcases how the removal of city rubble and its displacement can result in new urban parklands with significant ecological importance for the health of the city and its residents.

This book reveals how processes of racialized, gendered, and classed exclusion are organized across institutional contexts making it difficult to see and disrupt the relations through which privilege is protected for some and denied others.

Queering Urban Justice foregrounds visions of urban justice that are critical of racial and colonial capitalism, and asks: What would it mean to map space in ways that address very real histories of displacement and erasure?

This reprint of the third edition, prepared by Stephen Otto, updates Arthur's classic to include information and illustrations uncovered since the appearance of the first edition.

The Many Rooms of this House is a story about the rise and decline of religion in Toronto over the past 160 years.