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Chance or Destiny? The Dominance of Toronto over the Urban Landscape, 1797–1850

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2016

Ann M. Carlos  and
Patricia Fulton
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The study of urban systems has generated a considerable volume of work designed to allow one both to categorize urban areas at a point in time and to describe their development through time. This has resulted in the examination of the growth of individual cities, their phases of development, and the relationship between cities and their hinterlands or regions. The study of urban areas and urban systems from so many different perspectives is a measure of the complexity of the forces that operate on the development of an urban area. This article attempts to examine one particular force operating on one particular city in an attempt to get a clearer picture of its development during its formative years.

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Social Science History , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , Spring 1991 , pp. 35 - 66
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Copyright © Social Science History Association 1991 

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