Year: 1981
Summary: Assesses the role of recreation at the municipal level, considering major benefits and financial constraints.
Year: 1974
Summary: Summarizes the proceedings of a seminar sponsored by the BMR. Examines new town development and its effects on growth patterns, population, and urbanization.
Year: 1962
Summary: To maintain the level of competence of senior municipal officers, university trained recruits are required whose academic backgrounds permit them to understand the effect and ramifications of municipal activity.
Year: 1960
Summary: Suggests a dysfunctional TTC has harmed Toronto; the Bureau recommends more direct control in future.
Year: 1964
Summary: Reproduces extracts of arguments in a Bureau brief in support of the broadening Metro's revenue base. Emphasizes property taxation.
Year: 1963
Summary: Results of a questionnaire sent to all candidates for municipal office in Metropolitan Toronto in December 1962. Notes the similarity in social and economic positions of municipal politicians.
Year: 1976
Summary: Examines the news media in Metro Toronto, and the extent to which it serves the public and influences decision-makers on municipal matters.
Year: 1959
Summary: Suggests that assessment law and assessment practice should be modified to ensure equity in real property assessment.
Summary: Describes the theory and technique of a particular type of study of the economic impact of an expressway.
Year: 1972
Summary: Examines the trend towards building privately developed new communities in Toronto.
Year: 1970
Summary: Focuses on how decisions regarding the Metro Toronto transportation system are made.
Year: 1983
Summary: Discusses the province's adoption of Section 63 of the Assessment Act. Section 63 aims to base assessment on market value but not allow shifts in the tax burden between residential, commercial and industrial properties.
Year: 1971
Summary: Documents the history of the Ontario Municipal Board, and the current structure, procedure and extent of its jurisdiction.
Summary: Investigation into urban open space in the City of Toronto.
Summary: Discuss user behavior, the planning process, and financial and land resources in relation to urban parks.
Summary: Reviews advantages and disadvantages of workplace day care as an option to meet increasing demand.