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Order, Control, and Expertise in Thorncrest Village Patrick Vitale Document généré le 2 oct. 2021 04:49 Urban History Review Revue d'histoire urbaine A Model Suburb for Model Suburbanites: Order, Control, and Expertise in Thorncrest Village Patrick Vitale The Urban Space of the Elites Résumé de l'article Les espaces urbains des élites En 1945, Marshall Foss débute la construction de Thorncrest Village, une Volume 40, numéro 1, fall 2011 localité d'Etobicoke bordant l'ouest de Toronto. Selon la vision de Marshall Foss et du planificateur urbain Eugene Faludi, ce village ne serait rien de moins URI : https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1006405ar qu'un prototype de banlieue modèle pour le Canada de l'après-guerre et DOI : https://doi.org/10.7202/1006405ar incarnerait les idéaux de la planification banlieusarde moderne : le conformisme, le sens de la communauté, la stabilité, le respect de la vie privée ainsi qu'un prudent mélange de nature et de ville. Les deux fondateurs Aller au sommaire du numéro développent une banlieue ordonnée et contrôlée destinée à garantir les investissements financiers et le statut social des résidents de la classe moyenne élevée. En retour, ces résidents témoignent d'une foi incroyable en leur Éditeur(s) expertise et s'identifient au village, créant ainsi une expérience charnière dans la planification du mode de vie banlieusard moderne. Thorncrest Village Urban History Review / Revue d'histoire urbaine devient alors un site clé dans le développement de l'expertise urbanistique moderne et dans la constitution de l'identité de l'élite banlieusarde. Les valeurs ISSN cultivées par les planificateurs urbains et par les résidents du 0703-0428 (imprimé) village — notamment le maintien de l'ordre et du contrôle — apparaissent 1918-5138 (numérique) bientôt comme des composantes majeures de la suburbanisation au Canada et ailleurs dans le monde. Découvrir la revue Citer cet article Vitale, P. (2011). A Model Suburb for Model Suburbanites: Order, Control, and Expertise in Thorncrest Village. Urban History Review / Revue d'histoire urbaine, 40(1), 41–55. https://doi.org/10.7202/1006405ar All Rights Reserved © Urban History Review / Revue d'histoire urbaine, 2011 Ce document est protégé par la loi sur le droit d’auteur. L’utilisation des services d’Érudit (y compris la reproduction) est assujettie à sa politique d’utilisation que vous pouvez consulter en ligne. https://apropos.erudit.org/fr/usagers/politique-dutilisation/ Cet article est diffusé et préservé par Érudit. Érudit est un consortium interuniversitaire sans but lucratif composé de l’Université de Montréal, l’Université Laval et l’Université du Québec à Montréal. Il a pour mission la promotion et la valorisation de la recherche. https://www.erudit.org/fr/ A Model Suburb for Model Suburbanites: Order, Control, and Expertise in Thorncrest Village Patrick Vitale In 1945, Marshall Foss began construction of Thorncrest Village, a of 1945, Foss began to develop the subdivision of Thorncrest subdivision in Etobicoke just to the west of Toronto. Foss and urban Village at the corner of Islington Avenue and Radburn Road in planner Eugene Faludi envisioned Thorncrest Village as nothing less the township of Etobicoke, just east of Toronto (see figure 1). than a model suburb for postwar Canada. They created a community Now subsumed by the condo towers and traffic of metropolitan that embodied the ideals of modern suburban planning: conformity, Toronto, a small nondescript shopping plaza marks the spot community, privacy, stability, and a careful mixture of nature and where Foss began his development. When Foss first visited this city. They developed an orderly and controlled suburb that secured corner in 1945, it was occupied by rolling farmers’ fields, which upper-middle-class residents’ financial investments and their social seemed the optimal site on which to build a “modern commu- status. These residents, in turn, placed unbounded faith in Foss and nity” dedicated to “country living.” Faludi’s expertise and identified with the Village as a landmark Foss developed a community devoted to the central ideals of experiment in modern suburban living. Thorncrest Village became suburban living: conformity, community, privacy, stability, and a key site that intertwined the expertise of modern urban planning a careful mixture of nature and city. These ideals clearly moti- and the identities of elite suburbanites. The values that developers vated Thorncrest Village’s design and development and had a and residents put into place in Thorncrest Village—particularly the substantial, albeit lesser, impact on suburban design in Toronto pursuit of order and control—are significant components of subur- and other cities. In the late 1940s, Thorncrest Village was a banization in Canada and elsewhere. model for other suburban developments, and newspapers and magazines highlighted it frequently, including the Globe and En 1945, Marshall Foss débute la construction de Thorncrest Village, Mail, Montreal Standard, Toronto Daily Star, Chatelaine, Cana- une localité d'Etobicoke bordant l'ouest de Toronto. Selon la vision dian Homes and Gardens, Architectural Forum, and the Journal de Marshall Foss et du planificateur urbain Eugene Faludi, ce village of the American Institute of Planners. Its planner, Eugene Faludi, ne serait rien de moins qu'un prototype de banlieue modèle pour le would go on to have a prominent career, developing plans Canada de l'après-guerre et incarnerait les idéaux de la planification for cities and suburbs across Canada.1 The national attention banlieusarde moderne : le conformisme, le sens de la communauté, focused on Thorncrest Village may have been unusual, but its la stabilité, le respect de la vie privée ainsi qu'un prudent mélange design and social life were not. Thorncrest Village exemplified de nature et de ville. Les deux fondateurs développent une banlieue the clichés of suburbia, and the principles applied there are ordonnée et contrôlée destinée à garantir les investissements finan- apparent throughout suburban Canada. Thorncrest Village and ciers et le statut social des résidents de la classe moyenne élevée. En hundreds of other Canadian suburbs provide ample evidence to retour, ces résidents témoignent d'une foi incroyable en leur expertise support Robert Fishman’s claim that the residential suburb was et s'identifient au village, créant ainsi une expérience charnière dans an “archetypical middle-class creation.”2 la planification du mode de vie banlieusard moderne. Thorncrest This paper focuses on Thorncrest Village as a key location Village devient alors un site clé dans le développement de l'expertise and moment for the genesis of modern suburban planning in urbanistique moderne et dans la constitution de l'identité de l'élite Canada. By understanding the search for order and control banlieusarde. Les valeurs cultivées par les planificateurs urbains et that motivated the designers, developers, and residents of par les résidents du village — notamment le maintien de l'ordre et du Thorncrest Village, we can better understand the broader forces contrôle — apparaissent bientôt comme des composantes majeures de that shaped post–Second World War Canadian cities. During la suburbanisation au Canada et ailleurs dans le monde. the postwar period, the middle class invested increasing faith in professionals’ abilities to solve a wide range of problems Today, traveling north from Islington station on a number thirty- from war to famine to sickness. The problems of the city were seven bus, it is difficult to imagine the rural landscape that in no way different, and in Thorncrest Village and throughout greeted Marshall Foss in 1945. Newly returned from service as a Toronto, professional planners, with the support of the middle wing commander in the Royal Canadian Air Force in the autumn class, went to work rationally clearing old neighbourhoods and 41 Urban History Review / Revue d’histoire urbaine Vol. XL, No. 1 (Fall 2011 automne) A Model Suburb for Model Suburbanites residents’ efforts to realize the ideals put forward by Faludi and Foss. It will show, as did sociologist S. D. Clark in his study of Thorncrest Village, that the residents struggled to create shared norms and a sense of belonging within the community,5 as part of an active effort to realize their vision of an orderly and rationally planned community. To ignore their search for order—a search that is indicative of middle-class life in postwar Canada—would only mask the power relations that both produce and are repro- duced by middle-class suburbanization. History of Postwar Suburbanization in Canada Most recent writing on suburbanization in Canada takes two distinct, yet parallel approaches, focusing on either the history of women and domesticity in suburbia or the history of working- class and industrial suburbanization.6 Most of this work has focused on pre-1945 suburbanization, rather than the massive tide of suburbanization that followed the Second World War.7 Much of it can be broadly categorized within the framework of new suburban history. New suburban historians are a disparate Figure 1: Map of Thorncrest Village and census tract 266 group who question traditional meta-histories of suburbaniza- tion.8 They argue that prior studies of suburbia, particularly 3 creating new ones. The development of Thorncrest Village classic syntheses by Fishman and Jackson, have concentrated was a key moment and place where middle-class Torontonians exclusively on white middle-class residential suburbanization invested not only their savings, but also their identities in the and have ignored the presence of working-class, industrial, modern project of developing a more orderly city. The devel- and non-white suburbanization.9 They also question the classic opers and residents of Thorncrest Village saw themselves as trope of the suburban dupe—the middle-class suburbanite who suburban pioneers who would demonstrate to all of Canada a is drawn to a place of conformity, consumerism, and affluence. modern and more rational way of living. These scholars provide an important reformulation of suburban This article is based on my analysis of the records of the Thorn- history in Canada and the United States.
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