Sources and permissions

We gratefully acknowledge the City of Toronto Archives (abbreviated in the individual credits as “CTA”) and the City Planning Division, Urban Development Services, City of Toronto (“CPD/CT”), for permission to reproduce photographs, perspective views generated from the City of Toronto’s computer modeling, and excerpts from city maps.

Photographs supplied by the contributors have been credited wherever possible to the original photographers. In those cases where the original credit could not be confirmed by press time, the author or the author’s firm is noted as the source, preceded by this symbol – †.

The plans of “existing residences” and the pictures of “some Toronto residences” are reproduced from the “Bruce Report” – Report of the Lieutenant Governor’s Committee on Housing Conditions in Toronto, 1934. Toronto: Hunter Rose.

The definitions on the next page are from the Oxford English Dictionary (Second Edition). The “coda” in the introduction is from John Sladek. “The Communicants.” The New S.F. London: Arrow Books, 1969.

Support

We are especially grateful to the following sponsors and supporters, whose contributions have made this book possible:

Financial assistance

Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada

Toronto Community Foundation

Parks Canada

ERA Architects Inc.

Polymath&Thaumaturge Inc.

Public Work Architects Inc.

Toronto Society of Architects

Other support

For assistance with the acquisition of computer-modeling data, Robert Wright and Charles Cox, Center for Landscape Research, Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Urban Design, University of Toronto; and Robert Glover, City of Toronto

For writing the initial letters of support for the project, Karen Black, Cathy Crowe, Catherine Nasmith, and Michael Shapcott

For their assistance in securing historic photographs, Sally Gibson, and Andrea Aitken at the City of Toronto Archives

For carefully reviewing the publication before it went to press, Robert G. Hill