- Beyond Social Democracy
The City and Urban Socialism
Resource Type: Book
- Can we save the cities?
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
- The Canadian City
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
Based on the belief that a healthy city life is possible, this volume collects articles, stories and histories about the city and its people, covering aspects such as human and social relations, art and architecture, urban planning, land development, and the greening of the urban environment.
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Pilot Copy, February 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1976
The first issue of the Canadian Information Sharing Service publication. The name of the publication was later changed to Connexions and then to Connexions Digest.
- The Canadian Whole Earth Almanac
Resource Type: Book
A compendium of information, focused especially on food with various pieces on the how-to of living off the land.
- Cities and the Wealth of Nations
Principles of Economic Life
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1984
Jacobs argues that virtually all economic life, no matter how geographically remote from cities, depends on cities to maintain it or change it.
- Connexions
Volume 5, Number 5 - January 1981 - Militarism/Militarisme
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1988
- Connexions Annual 1989
A Social Change Sourcebook: Information and ideas about social and environmental alternatives
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
The Connexions Annual is simultaneously a reference book and an introduction to the world of social and environmental alternatives.
- Connexions Annual 1994
A Sourcebook of Social and Environmental Alternatives
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1994
Simultaneously a reference book and an introduction to the world of social and environmental alternatives. The bulk of the Annual is devoted to listings of grassroots groups. It also contains a series of introductory articles surveying a wide range of social and environmental issues and possibile alternatives.
- Connexions Annual Overview: Community, Urban, Housing
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1994
- Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1988
- Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- Connexions Digest
Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- Connexions Digest
Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1990
- Connexions Digest
Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1990
- Connexions Digest
Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1991
- Connexions Digest
Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1992
- Connexions Library: Community & Urban Focus
Resource Type: Website
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on community and urban issues.
- Dark Age Ahead
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
A dark age is a culture's dead end. Jacobs argues that our society is facing the coming of a dark age.
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1961
Jacobs' iconoclastic and brilliant observations on why cities work, and why they don't.
- Detroit's Foreclosure Disaster
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
In early 2015 the Wayne County Treasurer's office announced that 62,000 Detroit properties were slated for foreclosure, with probably 38,000 occupied. This could result in the displacement of as many as 100,000 Detroiters, or about one seventh of the city's population.
- Eccentric Spaces
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1977
- Exploring Your Neighbourhood
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1984
A guide for children to learn more about their neighbourhoods.
- Fighting Back
Urban Renewal in Trefann Court
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
A detailed report on the conflict between city bureaucrats and residents of Trefann Court, a five-block area just east of downtown Toronto. Bent on tearing down as a step towards urban renewal, the planners and government officials met organized resistance by homeowners, landlords and tenants for over six years.
- The Gaia Atlas of Cities
New Directions for Sustainable Urban Living
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
- Green Cities
Ecologically Sound Approaches to Urban Space
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
Visions from around the world for an ecological urban model. Argues that putting wilderness in cities is good for conservation of wildlife.
- Growing Numbers and Dwindling Resources
Resource Type: Book
The world's population growth strains natural resources especially when consumption levels are high and technology is widely used.
- Jacobs, Jane
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Author, urban advocate, economist, ecologist, and philosopher. (1916-2006).
- Jane Jacobs, Urban Visionary
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
A biography of Jane Jacobs.
- Liberal Dreams and Nature's Limits
Great Cities of North America Since 1600
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1996
An exploration of city life through time, focusing on the life [economically, socially, politically, etc.] of five large North American cities at various times in the past - Philadelphia during the time of Benjamin Franklin (1760), New York in the mid nineteenth-century (1860), Chicago at the beginning of the Progressivist Civic Movements (1910), Los Angeles during the immediate Post-war boom (1950) and Toronto at the beginning of its own ascendancy in the 1970's. (1975).
- Nature of Economies
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2001
Jacobs argues that since human beings exist wholly within nature as part of natural order in every respect, we should look to the processes of nature for vibrant and flexible models of economic planning.
- The Real World of City Politics
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
A report about what is going on -- and what is going wrong -- in Canada's cities. Urban reneewal, public housing, downtown schools, citizen participation, highrise development, city politicians.
- Resistance After Foreclosure
Against The Current vol. 158
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
In 1973, in the class- and race-polarized city of Boston, City Life began as a socialist collective fighting against evictions and gentrification in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood. Over the years, it has evolved into a radical non-profit organization with a long history of doing tenant organizing and tenants’ rights work all across the city. City Life was able to avoid sectarian debates to maintain itself as a radical center for housing organizing.
- Savage Inequalities
Children in America's Schools
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
- Seven News
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1970
Seven News (7 News) was a community newspaper published in the area of Toronto east of downtown which at the time was known as Ward 7. Seven News was published from 1970 to 1985. Seven News is no longer publishing, but all issues of the paper have been scanned and are available on the Connexions website.
Ward 7 covered the area of Toronto east of downtown, from Sherbourne Street to Logan Avenue, south of Bloor-Danforth, including Don Vale, Cabbagetown, Regent Park, Riverdale, St. Jamestown.
- Social Activist Grace Lee Boggs on Shaking Up the Status Quo in America
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2007
Grace Lee Boggs has been a part of almost every major movement in the United States in the last 75 years, including: Labor, Civil Rights, Black Power, Women’s Rights and Environmental Justice.
- Take over the City
The Case for Public Ownership of Financial Institutions
Resource Type: Book
- Toronto Planning Atlas
Computer Drawn Maps of Planning Indicators for Metropolitan Toronto
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1980
- Unitary urbanism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Critique of status quo urbanism employed by the Lettrist International and then further developed by the Situationist International
- Up Against City Hall
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
John Sewell describes his early life and explains how he accidentally got involved in politics. He tells of his experiences in Trefann Court, and how this opened his eyes to the realities of civic politics, and gives behind-the-scenes accounts of some of the major battles at City Hall.
- Urban & Housing Topic Index in Sources Directory of Experts
Spokespersons, Experts, and Resources
Resource Type: Website
A subject guide to experts and spokespersons on topics related to urban issues and housing in the Sources directory for the media.
- The Urban Landscape
A Study of Open Space in Urban Metropolitan Areas
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1971
- Urban Studies
A Canadian Perspective
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1968
- Urbanized
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2011
A documentary about the design of cities, which looks at the issues and strategies behind urban design and features some of the world’s foremost architects, planners, policymakers, builders, and thinkers.
- The Uses of Disorder
Personal Identity and City Life
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
An examination of the ways the modern city has failed, and an exploration of new modes of urban organization through which city life can become richer and more life-affirming.
- Tom Wetzel's home page
Resource Type: Website
Articles on socialism, syndicalism, unions, and urban issues.
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