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  1. Abahlali baseMjondolo
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A shack-dwellers' movement in South Africa.
  2. Barcelona's Experiment in Radical Democracy
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    Issues that Barcelona en Comu is tackling come up against limitations set by Catalan and Spanish law. The city lacks authority to regulate housing, although the city has created new affordable housing, and has successfully limited the reach of Airbnb.
  3. Berman, Marshall
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    American philosopher and Marxist Humanist writer. (Born 1940).
  4. Bookchin, Murray
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    American libertarian socialist-anarchist, political and social philosopher, environmentalist, conservationist, atheist, speaker, and writer. (1921-2006).
  5. 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.
  6. A Citizen's Guide to City Politics
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
  7. The City and Radical Social Change
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1982
    A collection of essays dealing with the dynamics of the new forces for social change in our urban milieu, discussing how new ideas are contributing to an urban insurgency which could lead to a new city and a new concept of citizenship.
  8. City for Sale
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1977
  9. City Lives and City Forms
    Critical Research and Canadian Urbanism
    Resource Type: Book
    This book focuses on the interaction between social relations and urban landscape by examining economic and cultural characteristics.
  10. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 5 - January 1981 - Militarism/Militarisme
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1981
  11. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1988
  12. Connexions Library: Community & Urban Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on community and urban issues.
  13. Goodman, Paul
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    American sociologist, poet, writer, anarchist, social critic, and public intellectual. (1911-1972).
  14. Google wants to run cities without being elected. Don't let it
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    A new initiative will see Alphabet – the parent company of Google – take charge of redeveloping a waterfront district in Toronto. Here's why that's troubling.
  15. A Green City Program
    For San Francisco Bay Area Cities & Towns
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    Ideas for green, sustainable cities.
  16. Green Municipalism
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1991
    A green municipalist analysis offers valuable perspectives but can become a straightjacket if it is seen as 'the' answer.
  17. Green Municipalism
    Critical evaluation
    Resource Type: Article
    Refers to the encouragement of environmentalism from the municipal, rather than state or national basis.
  18. Green municipalism
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Green municipalism refers to the encouragement of environmentalism from the municipal, rather than state or national basis.
  19. Highrise and Superprofits
    An Analysis of the Development Industry in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
  20. How it all adds up
    $4 billion more flows out than comes back in - and that has to change if the city is to stay healthy, critics say
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2002
    A discussion of Toronto's position within the Canadian economy, and an argument that given its' status as 'economic powerhouse' for the country, that perhaps some additional re-investment into the city is warranted.
  21. How We Changed Toronto
    The inside story of twelve creative, tumultuous years in civic life, 1969-1980
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2015
    By the mid-1960s Toronto was well on its way to becoming Canada's largest and most powerful city. One real estate firm aptly labelled it Boomtown. Expressways, subways, shopping centres, high-rise apartments, and skyscraping downtown office towers were transforming the city. City officials were cheerleaders for unrestricted growth.
  22. Jacobs, Jane
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Author, urban advocate, economist, ecologist, and philosopher. (1916-2006).
  23. Jane Jacobs, Urban Visionary
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    A biography of Jane Jacobs.
  24. Local Places In the Age of the Global City
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
    The contributors to Local Places look at the complex social, economic and political contexts of cities in the 1990s and suggest that cities and urbanity, while part of the problem, also need to be considered as part of the solution.
  25. Media relations for politicians
    A Service for Parliamentarians, Legislators, and Municipal Councillors
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Public relations tools for elected officials and community leaders.
  26. The MegaCity Saga
    Democracy and Citizenship in This Global Age
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
  27. A New City Agenda
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    While Canadians have quickly recognized the importance of healthy cities in their own lives and communities, governments have lagged far behind. In A New City Agenda, journalist and former mayor, John Sewell answers the question: What would a new deal for cities look like? He articulates a new vision for Canada’s largest urban regions and the implementation of required changes in social services, public education, settlement, health, housing, policing, land use and governance.
  28. Organizing Around Transit: At the Intersection of Environmental Justice and Class Struggle
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    For the older big cities in North America, public transit is critical to their daily functioning. Organizing among workers and riders on public transit has a strategic importance.
  29. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 18, 2017
    Public Transit
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2017
    Public transit - good affordable public transit - is key to a liveable city. Around the world, there are movements of transit riders fighting for better public transit. A key perspective guiding many of these struggles is the idea that transit should be free, that is, paid for not by fares, but out of general revenues. This is how roads are normally funded: their construction and maintenance are paid for by taxes, rarely by user fees. Free public transit by itself would not be enough, however. We also need good transit, transit that runs frequently and goes where people want to go.
  30. Our Generation
    Volume 7 Number 3
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1970
  31. Our Generation
    Volume 10 Number 3
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1974
  32. Our Generation
    Volume 19 Number 1
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1987
  33. The Politics of Urban Liberation
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
    A broad-ranging study which covers the political economy of the urban question and the importance of the city in the history of social revolution. Schechter's evaluation of libertarian insurgency highlights the importance of movements from below dealing with housing, transportation and other issues of daily life.
  34. Principles governing municipal/provincial financial relationships
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1997
    In past decades, provincial governments have generally recognized the separate nature of local government and have not acted unilaterally in the field of financial relationships, but have attempted to reach amicable agreement.
  35. Racial Liberalism: The Case of Interwar Detroit
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    The paradox at the heart of contemporary racial politics is what sociologists and political scientists call "colorblind racism:" How is it that the United States is a country where racism is supposed to be politically, socially, and morally unacceptable yet simultaneously where inequalities are quite neatly organized along racial lines?
  36. Radical Digressions 2
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2000
  37. Rebel Cities
    From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2012
    Harvey places cities at the centre of an anti-capitalist resistance, asking how they might be reorganized in more socially just and ecologically sustainable ways.
  38. Reclaiming Our Cities & Towns
    Better Living with Less Traffic
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    Cars destroy the environment; people should embrace alternative modes of transportation like bycycling and walking to make urban areas safer and enviromentally sound.
  39. Red Bologna
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1977
    Examines the Communist administration of the city of Bologna.
  40. The Regional City
    Politics and Planning in Metropolitan Areas
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1965
  41. Restless Cities
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2011
    A collection of narratives and visual art that strive to capture the essence of life in the city. For the author, the urban dweller is a wanderer, a people watcher, a daydreamer attuned by virtue of his life in the metropolis to potentially transformative experiences.
  42. 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.
  43. The Shape of the City
    Toronto Struggles with Modern Planning
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    John Sewell traces in urban planning from pre-Depression garden cities to postwar modernism and a revival of interest in the streetscape grid.
  44. Simon Fraser University
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
  45. Strategies for Urban Socialism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
  46. Theses on Libertarian Municipalism
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1985
    These theses advance the view that a libertarian municipalism is possible and a new civic politics is definable as a dual power that can counterpose assembly and confederal forms to the centralized State.
  47. Towns for People
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    Examines the pressures, lifestyle changes, and social factors that contributed to the decline in urban public life in the late 20th century.
  48. Urban Canada and its Government
    A Study of Municipal Organization
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
  49. Urban Citizen Movements
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Community groups that are often organized around concerns about land use and the way planning decisions are made in local government.
  50. Urban Devastation
    The Planning of Incarceration
    Resource Type: Article
    This pamphlet describes and analyses "the breakdown of the fabric of present-day cities in the light of the development of capitalism from the 19th century till now", and "looks at the economic influences, the crisis of authority, breakdown of social order and the conflict of class forces as they affect the structure of the urban community."
  51. The Urban Question and Organizing
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1979
  52. Urban Struggle and Organizing Strategies
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1979
    The object of this paper is to examine the potential of urban struggle as a vehicle for promoting fundamental change in capitalist societies. This will be done by contrasting two organizing approaches to urban conflict and by evaluating their impact ideologically and economically on capitalist structures.
  53. 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.

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