- All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
The Experience of Modernity
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
Berman examines the clash of classes, histories, and clutures in the modern world, and ponders our prospects for coming to terms with the relationship between a liberating social and philosophical idealism and a complex, bureaucratic materialism.
- The American Socialist Movement: 1897-1912
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1952
A history of the American Socialist Party, which at its height had over 150,000 dues-paying members, published hundreds of newspapers, and won almost a million votes for its presidential candidate.
- Bowling Alone
The Collapse and Revival of American Community
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
Bowling Alone documents the rise and fall of community activity in the twentieth century in the United States and the social changes this reflects. It offers all the evidence, the confirmatory and the contradictory, to give a complete look at trends of community involvement and how increased social capital can benefit everybody.
- Can we save the cities?
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
- 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 Policy Research Networks (CPRN)
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- 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.
- Cities for People
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1999
How two experiments in participatory democracy have transformed the political culture in Brazil and Uruguay.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- City Lives and City Forms
Critical Research and Canadian Urbanism
Resource Type: Book
This book focuses on the interaction between social relations and urban landscape by examining economic and cultural characteristics.
- Communitas
Means of Livelihood and Ways of Life
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1960
Visions of urban life.
- Connexions Library: Community & Urban Focus
Resource Type: Website
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on community and urban issues.
- Continuous Excursions
Politics and Personal Life
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1982
Colman looks at the idea that 'the personal is political'. He looks at personal life in pre-capitalist societies, the nature of politics and social relations, patriarchy and sexual relations, intimacy and personal life, indviduality and public life.
- 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.
- 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 Economy of Cities
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
Ideas about what makes cities rich or poor, how cities grow, and how city growth affects national economies.
- A Green City Program
For San Francisco Bay Area Cities & Towns
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
Ideas for green, sustainable cities.
- 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.
- Green Municipalism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1991
A green municipalist analysis offers valuable perspectives but can become a straightjacket if it is seen as 'the' answer.
- Green Municipalism
Critical evaluation
Resource Type: Article
Refers to the encouragement of environmentalism from the municipal, rather than state or national basis.
- The Greening of the Cities
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
- Ground Control: Fear and Happiness in the Twenty-First-Century City
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2009
The shift in Britain's urban planning policy towards privatized 'public' spaces has resulted in homogenization of its landscapes.
- Healthy Cities
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
- Highrise and Superprofits
An Analysis of the Development Industry in Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
- Home!
A Bioregional Reader
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
A guide to the vision and strategy of bioregionalism.
- Jacobs, Jane
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Author, urban advocate, economist, ecologist, and philosopher. (1916-2006).
- 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).
- 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.
- Man's Worldly Goods
The Story of the Wealth of Nations
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1968
Huberman sets out to explain history using economic theory, and to explain economic theory using history. He tries to explain, in terms of the development of economic thought, why certain doctrines arose when they did, how they originated in the very fabric of social life, and how they were developed, modified, and overthrown when the pattern of that fabric was changed.
- Nature of Economies
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2001
Jacobs argues that since human beings exist wholly within nature as part of natural order in every respect, we should look to the processes of nature for vibrant and flexible models of economic planning.
- 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.
- New Internationalist
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
New Internationalist reports on issues of world poverty and inequality. We focus attention on the unjust relationship between the powerful and the powerless worldwide in the fight for global justice.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 7, 2016
Depression and Joy
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2016
It's a difficult thing to measure, but there are strong reasons for believing that the number of people struggling with depression has increased significantly in recent decades. Despite the evidence that this is a social problem, and not merely an individual misfortune, the solutions and escapes on offer are almost all individual: pharmaceuticals and therapy, on the one hand; self-medication with alcohol, streets drugs, television, etc., on the other. Certainly there are individual circumstances and individual causes, but when millions of people are experiencing the same thing, we need to be looking not only at the individual, but also at the society.
- Our Generation
Volume 10 Number 3
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1974
- The Politics of Urban Liberation
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
A broad-ranging study which covers the political economy of the urban question and the importance of the city in the history of social revolution. Schechter's evaluation of libertarian insurgency highlights the importance of movements from below dealing with housing, transportation and other issues of daily life.
- Radical Digressions 2
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2000
- Rebel Cities
From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2012
Harvey places cities at the centre of an anti-capitalist resistance, asking how they might be reorganized in more socially just and ecologically sustainable ways.
- Reclaiming Our Cities & Towns
Better Living with Less Traffic
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
Cars destroy the environment; people should embrace alternative modes of transportation like bycycling and walking to make urban areas safer and enviromentally sound.
- Red Bologna
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1977
Examines the Communist administration of the city of Bologna.
- The Regional City
Politics and Planning in Metropolitan Areas
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1965
- Restless Cities
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2011
A collection of narratives and visual art that strive to capture the essence of life in the city. For the author, the urban dweller is a wanderer, a people watcher, a daydreamer attuned by virtue of his life in the metropolis to potentially transformative experiences.
- 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 Seventh Fire
The Struggle for Aboriginal Government
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
Describes the struggles of aboriginal people to run their own affairs.
- 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.
- Simon Fraser University
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- University of Winnipeg
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Up Against City Hall
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
John Sewell describes his early life and explains how he accidentally got involved in politics. He tells of his experiences in Trefann Court, and how this opened his eyes to the realities of civic politics, and gives behind-the-scenes accounts of some of the major battles at City Hall.
- 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.
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