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  1. Architecture for People
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1980
    A book of possible solutions for the problems of modern architecture.
  2. Architektur als Ideologie
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1975
  3. Communitas
    Means of Livelihood and Ways of Life

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1960
    Visions of urban life.
  4. Community Dreams
    Ideas for Enriching Neighbourhood and Community Life

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1984
    A compilation of vignettes, fragments and thought starters that provides stimulating ideas for practical community transformation.
  5. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 3 - July 1982 - Prairie Region/Region des Prairies

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1982
  6. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1992
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. Encyclopedia of Urban Planning
    Resource Type: Book
  10. Goodman, Paul
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    American sociologist, poet, writer, anarchist, social critic, and public intellectual. (1911-1972).
  11. 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.
  12. A Green City Program
    For San Francisco Bay Area Cities & Towns

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    Ideas for green, sustainable cities.
  13. Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less are the Keys to Sustainability
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2009
    An argument towards city living as more ecologically sound than suburban sprawl.
  14. 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.
  15. Ontario Association of Landscape Architects
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  16. Our Generation
    Volume 10 Number 3

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1974
  17. The Suburban Nation
    The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
    The choice is ours: either a society of homogeneous pieces, isolated from one another in often fortified enclaves, or a society of diverse and memorable neighbourhoods, organized into mutually supportive towns, cities and regions.
  18. Utopian Essays and Practical Proposals
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1962
    Whatever the subject, Goodman asks: What blocks and limits human freedom, joy, and creativity? What tends to release, free, liberate? In criticizing society and life his purpose is to improve. Goodman is animated by a vision of a good society, a coherent community, a style, and quality, of life that is fully human, and humanizes.

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