From the sidewalk to City Hall, in the corporate boardroom, and around the kitchen table, The Heart of Toronto traces the power dynamics and projects that have transformed downtown Toronto.

The Street and the City

1 Making Downtown Yonge Street

2 The City of Tomorrow

3 A People Place

4 Fighting Sin Strip

5 Malling Main Street

Remaking Downtown Yonge Street

Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index

Daniel Ross is an associate professor in the Department of History at the Université du Québec à Montréal. His research on cities, urban culture, and local politics in Canada has been published in the Urban History Review/Revue d'histoire urbaine, BC Studies, the Bulletin d'histoire politique, and Spacing magazine.