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Reviews consulted were Mary Corbin Sies, Journal of the Society of Architecture History 67, no. 2 (June 2008): 302-5; Jane Gadd, "A Contrarian Look at the Bane of Urban Reformers," The Globe and Mail, April 7, 2006; James Howard Kuntsler, "Sprawl: A Compact History," Salmagundi 152 (Fall 2006); Witold Rybczynski, "Suburban Despair: Is Urban Sprawl Really an American Menace," Slate, November 7, 2005; Richard Harris, Annals of the Association of American Geographers 93, no. 3 (2006): 666-68; Alex Krieger, Harvard Design Magazine (Fall 2006/Winter 2007).
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Sies, above, is perceptive on this.
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Michael Moore presents Toronto this way in his popular film Bowling for Columbine.
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"The Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe" can be found on the Places to Grow web site of the Ontario Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure: http://www.placestogrow.ca/index.php? lang=eng.
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APA News Release, February 19, 2007; this release, and other related documents, can be found on the Places to Grow web site.
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Neptis Foundation, "Metropolitan Form Density Transportation," 2006.
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"Neptis Commentary on the Draft Greenbelt Plan" (January 2005); "Neptis Commentary on the Ontario Government’s Proposed Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe" (2006); this reviewer wrote a history of regional planning for this series: Richard White, "The Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe in Historical Perspective" (December 2007); all can be found at www.neptis.org.
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A more comprehensive telling of this story can be found in another new book, Frances Frisken, The Public Metropolis: The Political Dynamics of Urban Expansion in the Toronto Region Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press Inc., 2007.