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Clicking on the title of an item takes you to the bibliographic page for the resource, which typically also contains an abstract, a link to the full text if it is available online, and links to related topics in the subject index. You can find items through the Title, Author, Subject, Chronological, Dewey, Library of Congress, and Format indexes.
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  1. The Capitalist City or the Self-Managed City?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2004
    The opposite of gentrification should not be decay and abandonment but the democratization of housing. Community land trusts may be a way of working towards this goal.
  2. Cities and the Wealth of Nations
    Principles of Economic Life
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984
  3. Citizens for Local Democracy Newsletter 20, November 1997
    Periodical profile published 1992
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1997
    Fighting for democracy and against the Harris government.
  4. A Citizen's Guide to City Politics
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
  5. The City and Radical Social Change
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
  6. City for Sale
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1977
  7. Dialectical Urbanism
    Social Struggles and the Capitalist City
    Resource Type: Book
    Life in the city can be both liberating and oppressive.This book explores both sides of the urban experience, developing a perspective from which the contradictory nature of the politics of the city comes more clearly into view.
  8. A Green City Program
    For San Francisco Bay Area Cities & Towns
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
  9. Green Municipalism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1991
    A green municipalist analysis offers valuable perspectives but can become a straightjacket if it is seen as 'the' answer.
  10. Highrise and Superprofits
    An Analysis of the Development Industry in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
  11. Jacobs, Jane
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    (1916-2006). Was an American-born Canadian urbanist, writer and activist.
  12. The Latin American City
    Resource Type: Book
    Looks at the region’s urban explosion from the perspective of the poor.
  13. Local Places In the Age of the Global City 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
  14. The Politics of Urban Liberation
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1978
  15. Principles governing municipal/provincial financial relationships
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1997
    In past decades, provincial governments have generally recognized the separate nature of local government and have not acted unilaterally in the field of financial relationships, but have attempted to reach amicable agreement.
  16. Radical Digressions 2
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 1981   Published: 2000
  17. Reclaiming Our Cities & Towns
    Better Living with Less Traffic
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
  18. Red Bologna
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
  19. Seven News
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1970
    Seven News (7 News) was a community newspaper published in Toronto's Ward 7 from 1970 to 1985. Seven News is no longer publishing, but some articles and other background are available on this Web site.
  20. The Shape of the City
    Toronto Struggles with Modern Planning
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
  21. Strategies for Urban Socialism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
  22. Take Back the Land
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    It is immoral for human beings to be forced to live on the streets while perfectly good structures stand vacant, sometimes just blocks away.
  23. Towns for People
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
  24. Urban Citizen Movements
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Community groups that are often organized around concerns about land use and the way planning decisions are made in local government.
  25. The Urban Question and Organizing
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1979

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