The political economy of land development in nineteenth century Toronto.

Abstract

Challenges traditional ecological assumptions about urban growth and development by exploring the relationship between social structure and urban pattern. A neo-marxian analysis is used to examine the ways in which changing social, political and economic forces of Canadian society affected the distribution of social classes in urban space during three periods of Toronto's early growth: 1) the colonial period, 1791-1833; 2) the mercantile period, 1834-1850; and 3) the early industrial period, 1851-1881. -from Author