Allison, L.;
(2023)
Public Infrastructure in the Greater Toronto Area: A National Challenge Addressed at the Local Level.
London Journal of Canadian Studies
, 37
(1)
pp. 35-49.
10.14324/111.444.ljcs.2023v37.004.
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Abstract
This article provides a brief summary of infrastructure in twentieth-century Canada. An analysis is then presented, showing the post-war evolution of municipalities in the Greater Toronto Area, the first and largest municipal unit in Canada. It was municipalities, and not the federal or provincial governments, that came to own and operate nearly half of the total Canadian public stock. The article then discusses the intricate ways in which the funding mechanisms of public infrastructure developed and argues in some instances that funding on the scale of needed infrastructure explains how governments themselves developed. It explores how the current system, albeit intricate, continues to drive local economies in the Greater Toronto Area, now the key engine of Canadian national growth.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Public Infrastructure in the Greater Toronto Area: A National Challenge Addressed at the Local Level |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.444.ljcs.2023v37.004 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.ljcs.2023v37.004 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2023, Lindsay Allison. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC-BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited. |
| Keywords: | Greater Toronto Area (GTA), public infrastructure, municipalities, federal government, provincial government, Canada, funding, national growth, First World War, Second World War |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10191874 |
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