Toronto, No Mean City

Dean Tudor is a journalism professor at the Ryerson Polytechnical
Institute and founding editor of the CBRA.

This book’s impact on architectural historians and Toronto-lovers has been enormous since itwas first issued in 1964. In his revision, Stephen Otto has included information and illustrations discovered since 1964, and the Press wisely decided to create a new tool when itlet the other edition go out of print. The book’s format has been reduced in size, and in paperback is now truly portable.

The text has been revised; the section on Toronto’s architects has been expanded; there is a new appendix on builders and contractors; there are 60 brand-new photographs (some of which are the earliest photos taken of Toronto, found a few years ago in the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office Library), and there are some previously unpublished drawings from the Horwood Collection.

Stephen Otto is director of the Ontario Heritage Foundation and head of Ontario’s heritage conservation programs; he is now working on a sort of “No Mean Province” book.