1. Active Partners
   Education and Local Development
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1996
   Discusses the crucial role of schools as mediators between national and international trends and community initiatives towards sustainable development.
2. All Politics is Local
   Election night in Peru's largest prison
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2012
   Daniel Alarcon explores the internal politics of Peru's largest prison.
3. AMCTO - Association of Municipal Managers, Clerks and Treasurers of Ontario
   Media Profile in Sources
   Resource Type: Organization
   
4. The Breakdown of Nations
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1957
   Kohr maintains that throughout history, people who have lived in small states are happier, more peaceful, more creative and more prosperous. He argues that virtually all our political and social problems would be greatly diminished if the world's major countries were to dissolve back into the small states from which they sprang.
5. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Volume 3, Number 2 - April 1978
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1978
   
6. 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.
7. A Focus of Anti-capitalist Struggle?
   Book review
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2013
   A book review of No Local: Why Small-Scale Alternatives Won't Change the World
8. Globalization and the Decline of Social Reform
   Into the Twenty-First Century
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1995
   
9. 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.
10. Inclusion or exclusion
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2008
    People who advocate a vision of distinct communities that speak different languages, keep apart from each other, and communicate with the structures of the larger society only through interpreters, are doing more harm than good. What they are advocating is not diversity but entrenched division.
    
11. 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).
12. The MegaCity Saga
    Democracy and Citizenship in This Global Age
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
    
13. The National Question
    Selected Writings by Rosa Luxemburg
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
    In her penetrating analysis of nationalism, Rosa Luxemburg argues that the formula of "the right of nations to self-determination" is essentially not a political or programmatic guide to the nationality question, but only a means of avoiding that question.
14. 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.
15. The Promises and Limitations of Radical Local Politics
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Steve Early's most recent book, Refinery Town: Big Oil, Big Money, and the Remaking of An American City (Beacon Press), describes the building of a what is very likely the most successful progressive political organization, The Richmond Progressive Alliance, in the United States, in Richmond, California, a blue collar city long dominated by Chevron Corp.
16. 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.
17. 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.
18. Sources welcomes Strategic Insights Canada
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Sources welcomes Strategic Insights Canada. Strategic Insights Canada provides competitive market research and analysis in Ontario energy, nuclear energy, aerospace and municipal infrastructure.
19. Strategic Insights Canada
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
20. 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.
21. 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.

Experts on Local Government in the Sources Directory

1. History & Policy