City Planning & Urban Development

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Beyond a Bowl of Spaghetti:

Beyond a Bowl of Spaghetti:

Lansky and Luciano

From: Sweethearts

1920-1949. Looks at Luciano and Lanskey who made their fortune during prohibition and how their operation entered toronto 13 $1.30 Add
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Boomtown Toronto

Boomtown Toronto

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1960s looks at appartment developers and the boom in high rise appartments in Toronto, which renewed commericial and downtown development 9 $0.90 Add
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Bubsey, Squeaky, Little Woody and the Weasel

Bubsey, Squeaky, Little Woody and the Weasel

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1930-1949. Looks at the life of a Italian in Toronto during this time period who was involved with illegal activity. Introduced to the Zanini family 12 $1.20 Add
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Dippers

Dippers

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1950-1960. Italian Immigration to Canada in the early 1950s their need to find work and finding jubs in construction. Explores the creation of unions for housing workers 18 $1.80 Add
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End of an Era

End of an Era

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1970s examines the slow down of growth due to regulations that had been put into place and the choice of some companys to team up with US companies where there was still a boom happening 8 $0.80 Add
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Epilogue

Epilogue

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A brief accounting of what happened to the key players in these chapters after the 1970s 5 $0.50 Add
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Foreward

Foreward

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Explains the process that led to the mafia finding a way into the housing industry. Also points to the fact that the book is an ethnic history where Jews and Italians sought to break the … 7 $0.70 Add
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Gus Simone, Organizer

Gus Simone, Organizer

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1960s. Unions and the switch to drywall, work in commercial construction 12 $1.20 Add
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Labour Empires

Labour Empires

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1970s the decline of specific trade unions (ie plasterers) and the building trades council wants to achieve labour unity in the city 8 $0.80 Add
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No Regrets

No Regrets

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1970s Justice comes calling but there are no regrets, also dubious why some are called criminals and some not 10 $1.00 Add
Sweethearts

Sweethearts

The Builders, the Mob and the Men

Toronto was Boomtown in the 1960s. The city was growing quickly, gobbling up farmland for suburbs, pushing through expressways, knocking down neighbourhoods to make way for high-rise apartments. … 272 View
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The Bahamas Adventure of C. Powell Morgan

The Bahamas Adventure of C. Powell Morgan

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1960s .The syndicate continues to refine methods of money laundering. Examines the Atlantic Acceptance Coorporation and its Bahamas hotel/casino developments 20 $2.00 Add
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The Bargain Builders

The Bargain Builders

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1960s the development of new building techniques that maximized profits by decreasing the need for skilled labour and finding cheaper materials. There are also inter-union disagreements for control 12 $1.20 Add
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The Concrete Forming Campaign

The Concrete Forming Campaign

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1960s formed concrete, residential unions and the international building trade unions 17 $1.70 Add
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The Harbord Class of ’33

The Harbord Class of ’33

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Looks at the Harbord Class of 1933, comprised of Jews, and the discrimmination they faced from Hitler supporters 9 $0.90 Add
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The Independent Union

The Independent Union

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1960s Zanini and his independent Canadian Union in Concrete Forming, acqusations of it being a front for the mob 10 $1.00 Add