Political Science 3363F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Gardiner Expressway, Death Knell, Deindustrialization
3 Nov 2016
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Committee on planning highways and urban expansion (scarborough, etobicoke, etc. were farmlands in 1943) Vision of expressways running through city to connect highways, similar thoughts in most cities. Appointed chairman, frederick gardiner, was influential in all modern infrastructure. Creation of gardiner expressway, modernization of toronto: was seen as a good idea despite having to destroy neighbourhoods. Proposed spadina would have helped suburbanites get downtown, remove low income neighbourhoods and cut through it: saw mobilization and public protests large contrast to gardiner, death knell to all the other expressways. Occurred in every city in north america in this period, anti-expressway activists. We(cid:271)er: i(cid:374)(cid:272)reasi(cid:374)g so(cid:272)ial (cid:272)o(cid:373)ple(cid:454)it(cid:455) (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ge people"s values. Contrast between agrarian society (rural) and industrial society (city, waged labour: society becomes much more complex with move to industrial society, leads to emergence of modern state. Make transition to post-industrial society: nature of city changes, work changes, values change towards self-expression, identity, etc. Urban social movements are a kind of nsm.
