- Brock University
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 1 - May 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1977
- Canadian Institute of Planners
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- A Citizen's Guide to City Politics
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
- City for Sale
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1977
- Connexions
Volume 3, Number 5 - September 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
- Connexions
Volume 7, Number 3 - July 1982 - Prairie Region/Region des Prairies
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1982
- Connexions Digest
Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1992
- Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Grassroots Cells, Devil's Architects Defend Communities
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1989
Organizational principles and campaign tactics communities can use to fight projects or developments being foisted on them.
- 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.
- How not to grow a new town
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
For years the governments of Peru, and the municipality of Lima, had a working deal with rural migrants who flocked to the city: we'll plan the place, you build it, amenities will arrive. Then came the cheap neoliberal substitute of granting land titles -- and the speculation began.
- 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.
- Jane Jacobs, Urban Visionary
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
A biography of Jane Jacobs.
- The Lichen Factor
The Quest for Community Development in Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1998
- Off the Map: Disabilities and Just Mobility
People with disabilities who rely on local public transit are getting squeezed between gentrification and austerity.
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
An examination of the tensions between investment driven public transit improvements and displacement of less affluent residents; with particular reference to people with mobility issues or disabilities.
- Our Generation
Volume 12 Number 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
- Port Industrial Development Task Force
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1980
- 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.
- 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.
- Toronto For Sale: the Destruction of a City
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
An account of how the Toronto City Council rezoned land to maximize land densities, favoring the interests of private developers over the public in the 1970s.
- Transport Action Canada
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Transportation Association of Canada
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Urban Development in South-Central Ontario
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
A study of the growth of metropolitanism in Ontario.
- What is gentrification?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2004
Both gentrification and disinvestment are processes made up of the activities of certain kinds of social agents or institutions. Landlords, developers, and banks all play key roles. To understand how both decay and gentrification of urban neighborhoods happen, we need to look at the dynamics of capital flows into and out of the built environment.
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