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- 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.
- A Citizen's Guide to City Politics
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
- The City in History
Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1961
Beginning with an interpretation of the origin and nature of the city, Mumford follows the city's development from Egypt and Mesopotamia through Greece, Rome, and the Middle Ages to the modern world.
- 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.
- Last Oasis
Facing Water Scarcity
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
Postel, of the Worldwatch Institute, explains how water is becoming scarce and resulting conflicts between nations and individuals can be resolved.
- Ontario Association of Landscape Architects
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- A pricey suburban sewer plan that stinks
City pays for new pipe and the results will be flushed into our lake
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1998
Discussion of connecting King township to the Toronto sewer system.
- 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.
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