{"product_id":"newspaper-city-9781442646797","title":"Newspaper City","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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 *\u003cbr\u003e‘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 *\u003cbr\u003e\"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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFigures 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","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408369066327,"sku":"9781442646797","price":49.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442646797.jpg?v=1730502645","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/newspaper-city-9781442646797","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}