Avenues or arterials: The struggle to change street building practices in Toronto, Canada

Journal of Urban Design

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-28

  Hess, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN METHOD; PEDESTRIAN; TWENTIETH CENTURY; URBAN DESIGN; URBAN PLANNING;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; TORONTO;

EID: 57049113882     PISSN: 13574809     EISSN: 14699664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13574800802451049     Document Type: Article

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