1. Leon Whiteson, Modern Canadian Architecture (Edmonton: Hurtig Publishers, 1983); Rhodri Windsor Liscombe, “Modes of Modernizing: The Acquisition of Modernist Design in Canada,” Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada Bulletin 19, no. 3 (1994), 60–74; Harold Kalman, A History of Canadian Architecture (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1994), 2:779–97; Marie-Josée Therrien and France Vanlaethem, “Modern Architecture in Canada 1940–1967,” Back from Utopia: The Challenge of the Modern Movement, ed. Hubert-Jan Henket and Hilde Heynen, 126–37 (Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, 2002); Bureau of Architecture and Urbanism, Toronto Modern Architecture, 1945–1965, 2nd ed. (Toronto: Coach House Books, 2002); Serena Keshavjee, ed. Winnipeg Modern: Architecture, 1945–1975 (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2006); George T. Kapelos, Competing Modernisms: Toronto’s New City Hall (Halifax: Dalhousie Architectural Press, 2015), 14–16.
2. John Sewell, The Shape of the City: Toronto Struggles with Modern Planning (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993); Robert M. Stamp, Suburban Modern: Postwar Dreams in Calgary (Calgary: TouchWood Editions, 2004); André Lortie, ed. The 60s: Montréal Thinks Big (Montreal: Canadian Centre for Architecture, 2004); Stephen Bocking, “Constructing Urban Expertise: Professional and Political Authority in Toronto, 1940–1970,” Journal of Urban History 33, no. 1 (2006), 51–76; Gerald Hodge and David Gordon, Planning Canadian Communities, 5th ed. (Toronto: Nelson Thomson Learning, 2008); Richard White, Planning Toronto: The Planners, the Plans, Their Legacies, 1940–80 (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2016).
3. Two notable exceptions are Rhodri Liscombe’s and Christopher Armstrong’s examination of modern architecture and planning in Vancouver and Toronto, respectively, which include thorough discussions about the influences and debates circulating among students and professionals, and in architectural periodicals during the 1930s and 1940s. Rhodri W. Liscombe, The New Spirit: Modern Architecture in Vancouver, 1938–1963 (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997); Christopher Armstrong, Making Toronto Modern: Architecture and Design, 1895–1975 (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2014); see also Rhodri W. Liscombe and Michelangelo Sabatino, Canada: Modern Architectures in History (London: Reaktion Books, 2016).
4. José Luis Sert, Can Our Cities Survive? An ABC of Urban Problems, Their Analysis, Their Solutions (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942); Le Corbusier, La Charte d’Athènes (Paris: La Librairie Plon, 1943); John R. Gold, “Creating the Charter of Athens: CIAM and the Functional City, 1933–43,” Town Planning Review 69, no. 3 (1998): 225–47.
5. John R. Gold, The Experience of Modernism: Modern Architects and the Future City, 1928-1953 (London: E&FN Spon, 1997)