The growth plan for the greater Golden Horseshoe in historical perspective / : Growth plan in historical perspective

There can be little doubt that the Ontario government's new regional planning initiative for the Toronto metropolitan region ("The Growth Plan for Greater Golden Horseshoe") is a grand and ambitious plan that, if fully implemented, will substantially alter the pattern of urban growth in the region. But have we not been here before? Other plans have been drawn up to shape the growth of this expanding urban region. How does this new Growth Plan compare and what does it owe to these past regional planning efforts?