- Architect fears Toronto may resemble New York
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1972
Developer and citizen advocate debate the future of the city.
- Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC)
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- 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.
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 3, Number 1 - February 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
- Canadian Institute of Planners
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Canadian Urban Transit Association
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Cities Need More Public Transit, Not More Uber and Self-Driving Cars
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
In the near future, it is likely that cities will come under intense pressure to sacrifice public transportation in favor of new, private, car-dependent alternatives, even at a time when city planners are suggesting reducing or even eliminating car use in cities.The article looks into the benefits of the new technologies, as well as benefits of public transit.
- A Citizen's Guide to City Politics
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
- Connexions Digest
Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1992
- 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 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.
- The Developers
Resource Type: Book
- Encyclopedia of Urban Planning
Resource Type: Book
- Gentrification and Class Struggles in Barcelona, Spain: Interview with Etcétera Collective
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
In an interview with the Barcelona-based collective Etcetera, the processes of urban development in one of the fastest gentrifying cities in Spain and their implications for potential movements and struggles are examined.
- Goodman, Paul
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
American sociologist, poet, writer, anarchist, social critic, and public intellectual. (1911-1972).
- 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.
- A Green City Program
For San Francisco Bay Area Cities & Towns
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
Ideas for green, sustainable cities.
- The Greening of the Cities
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
- Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Highrise and Superprofits
An Analysis of the Development Industry in Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
- How Amsterdam became the bicycle capital of the world
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The author provides an overview of how bicycle use has monopolized the streets in Amsterdam to create an overall safer and environmentally city.
- 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 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.
- Liberal Dreams and Nature's Limits
Great Cities of North America Since 1600
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1996
An exploration of city life through time, focusing on the life [economically, socially, politically, etc.] of five large North American cities at various times in the past - Philadelphia during the time of Benjamin Franklin (1760), New York in the mid nineteenth-century (1860), Chicago at the beginning of the Progressivist Civic Movements (1910), Los Angeles during the immediate Post-war boom (1950) and Toronto at the beginning of its own ascendancy in the 1970's. (1975).
- 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.
- 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.
- Our Generation
Volume 10 Number 3
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1974
- 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.
- Red Bologna
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1977
Examines the Communist administration of the city of Bologna.
- Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- The Secret History of Jaywalking: The Disturbing Reason It Was Outlawed - And Why We Should Lift the Ban
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Mangla narrates the origins of jaywalking and the reason why it was made illegal.
- 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.
- Stantec Inc.
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- 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.
- Taking Action
Working Together for Positive Change in Your Community
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
Taking Action is a guide for people who do not think of themselves as activists, yet want to make positive changes in their community.
- Technics and Civilization
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1963
A history of the machine and a critical study of its effects on civilization.
- 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.
- 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.
- Transportation Association of Canada
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- University of Waterloo
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- The Uses of Disorder
Personal Identity and City Life
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
An examination of the ways the modern city has failed, and an exploration of new modes of urban organization through which city life can become richer and more life-affirming.
- 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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