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Book SynopsisIn 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.
Trade Review"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 *
‘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 *
"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 *
Table of ContentsFigures and Tables Acknowledgements Introduction Contradictory City Chapter 1 Newspaper City Chapter 2 Farmlike City Chapter 3 Asphalt City Chapter 4 Discordant City Chapter 5 Sidewalk City Chapter 6 Fatal City Afterword Appendix - City-page Headlines in the Globe: Motor Vehicle Accidents in Toronto, January to December, 1920 and 1927 Bibliography End notes
