ABSTRACT
By the mid-twentieth century, as the full impact of the new industrialism and its modernist tendencies were being felt throughout Canada’s economy and society, cities across the country stood more segregated. The urban landscape of the nineteenth-century commercial city was almost completely transformed. Most fundamentally, with the growing power of planners and other government officials who sought an efficient, rational, and orderly city-expressed most forcefully through zoning bye-laws that controlled the location of economic activities and the form of the built environment-distinct places now existed for the exclusive use of separate land-use activities. From a pattern of dense and heterogeneous living spaces in the commercial city, where different classes of people and activities frequently intermingled, the newly-developing, mid-twentieth century neighbourhood had become more homogeneous, decidedly more middle class, and generally free of non-residential activities.
