- Architecture for People
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1980
A book of possible solutions for the problems of modern architecture.
- 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.
- Cities for People
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1999
How two experiments in participatory democracy have transformed the political culture in Brazil and Uruguay.
- Citizens Group Scores Success in Anti-lead Battle
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1987
Through self-education, out-reach, and activism, the Niagara Neighbourhood Lead Committee has successfully worked to reduce lead risks in their neighbourhood and throughout Canada.
- 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.
- Connexions Library: Community & Urban Focus
Resource Type: Website
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on community and urban issues.
- Connexions Library: Environment Focus
Resource Type: Website
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on environment, ecology, climate change, pollution, and land use.
- Curitiba: the Greenest city on Earth
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Eco-savvy urban planners have been studying Brazil's seventh largest city for decades.
- The Earthscan Action Handbook
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
A compendium of the world's major ills with suggestions for remedial action.
- Environmental Resources of the Toronto Central Waterfront
Inventory - Interpretations - Synthesis and Performance Requirements for Future Action
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1976
- EnvironmentSources.com
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2017
Web portal with information about environmental issues and resources, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- Field Notes From a Hidden City
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
Woolfson examines the elements - geographic, atmospheric and environmental - which bring diverse life forms to live in close proximity in cities. She considers prevailing attitudes towards the natural world, urban and non-urban wildlife, the values we place on the lives of individual species and the ways in which humans and creatures live together in cities.
- The First International Ecological City Conference
Conference Report
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
- A Green City Program
For San Francisco Bay Area Cities & Towns
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
Ideas for green, sustainable cities.
- A Green History of the World
The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
Ponting tracks the "green" history of the world showing how throughout history civilizations have collapsed when they exhausted the earth's natural resources.
- 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.
- The Greening of the Cities
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
- GreenTOpia
Towards A Sustainable Toronto, uTOpia Volume Three
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
The third volume of the uTOpia series features a collection of essays that look at innovative and imaginative ways to promote sustainability in Toronto. Also included is a directory of resources, organizations, incentives and programs in and around the GTA.
- Home!
A Bioregional Reader
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
A guide to the vision and strategy of bioregionalism.
- Keep our front gardens green!
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
It's time to halt the loss of the nation's front gardens to dreary paving, writes Jenny Jones. Green gardens protect against floods, provide homes for wildlife, keep cities cool in summer, and help us all feel happier. Now, with 7 million gardens already paved over, we must protect those that remain.
- Legacy
The Natural History of Ontario
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
A comprehensive, extensively illustrated natural history of Ontario, covering bedrock, soils, birds, mammals, insects, wildflowers, forests, prehistoric life, and much more.
- A Little Wilderness
A Natural History of Toronto
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
- 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.
- Okologischer Stadtführer Köln
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
- 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.
- Regeneration
Toronto's Waterfront and the Sustainable City
Resource Type: Book
- 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.
- A Short History of Progress
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
If the population growth, consumption of resources, and technological advances continue according to the trend of the twentieth century, at the expense of the earth, the outcome may be disastrous.
- Toronto Rocks
The Geological Legacy of the Toronto Region
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1998
Toronto’s urban geology.
- Toronto The Wild
Field Notes of an Urban Naturalist
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1995
Toronto as a natural world and and ecosystem.
- Toronto's Ravines
Walking the Hidden Country
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
- Toward Sustainable Communities
Resources for Citizens and their Governments
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1998
The way our urban communities develop will largely determine our success or failure in overcoming environmental challenges and achieving sustainable development. Toward Sustainable Communities offer practical suggestions and innovative solutions to a wide range of municipal and community problems.
- 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
- The Urban Landscape
A Study of Open Space in Urban Metropolitan Areas
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1971
- Urban Natural Areas
Resource Type: Book
- 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.
- What's Wrong With Front Yard Parking?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1994
The negative effects of front yard parking are significant, and affect us all. The benefits are small, and go only to a few.
- Wildlife in the City
Animals, birds, reptiles, insects and plants in an urban landscape
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1982
From the city park to the suburban garden, from the murkiest canal to the vacant building plot or bomb site, there is an astonishing variety of wild species, mammal, bird, reptile, insect and plant-life which has either steadfastly maintained a footing alongside humans or colonized their urban areas.
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