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  1. Brock University
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
  2. 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.
  3. Challenging McWorld
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
  4. 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.
  5. Connexions Library: Community & Urban Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on community and urban issues.
  6. 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.
  7. Guerrilla gardening
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Political gardening, a form of direct action, primarily practiced by environmentalists.
  8. Kavita Krishnan: 'Women's Liberation, Everyone's Liberation'
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Kavita Krishnan, a socialist organizer and a well-known international spokesperson for the movement against sexual violence in India, speaks on sexual violence, everyday sexism, protest, solidarity, and public space in India.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.

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