GEO 793 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Industrial Suburb, Common Sense Revolution, Soot
5 Dec 2018
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Toronto developed as part of an urban system" . They grow or decline because of their situation within and linkages or interconnections with a larger set of urban places" (bourne, 2003) Canadian urban system grows, shrinks, changes developed in stages of urbanization. In canada and in toronto, industrialization played a central role in urban development. Leading to the creation of the industrial city. A complex mix of technological and cultural innovations led to the industrial revolution. Industrial capitalism created two main classes: capitalists (for profit, labour (wages) Peter goheen argues: the industrial city was a new city": The city of 1900 was a new creationthe pre-industrial city was characterized by a static and clearly articulated social structure which was reflected in all its simple precision in the urban landscape". Goheen draws on thernstrom to illustrate the spatial argument: The dominance of the merchant elite and the deference of lower status groups was insured by a number of circumstances.
