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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.
Particularly recommended items are flagged with a red Connexions logo:

  1. The Canadian City
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
  2. A Citizen's Guide to City Politics
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
  3. The Death and Life of Great American Cities 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1961
    Jacobs' iconoclastic and brilliant observations on why cities work, and why they don't.
  4. A Green City Program
    For San Francisco Bay Area Cities & Towns
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
  5. Highrise and Superprofits
    An Analysis of the Development Industry in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
  6. Liberal Dreams and Nature's Limits
    Great Cities of North America Since 1600
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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).
  7. Paul Goodman: Writing on the Web
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Writings of the social critic Paul Goodman.
  8. Red Bologna
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
  9. 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.
  10. The Suburban Nation
    The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
  11. Toronto Public Space Committee
    Organization profile published 2007
    Resource Type: Organization
    We are dedicated to protecting our shared common spaces from commercial influence and privatisation. While some see the streets as an untapped source of advertising revenue we see protected public spaces as a fundamental pillar of a healthy democracy. If only wealthy advertisers have access to our visual environment, then freedom of speech suffers in our city. We are citizens first, and consumers second. Public space must reflect this distinction, and should be fully and equally accessible by all who walk through it. Public space is the guarantee of a space for citizens to engage in society and interact with each other without commercial influence.
  12. Toward Sustainable Communities
    Resources for Citizens and their Governments
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992   Published: 1998
  13. Towns for People
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
  14. Utopian Essays and Practical Proposals 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1951   Published: 1962

Experts on Urban Planning in the Sources Directory

  1. Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC)
  2. Canadian Institute of Planners
  3. Canadian Urban Transit Association
  4. Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada
  5. The Preservation Institute
  6. Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology
  7. Stantec Inc.
  8. Transportation Association of Canada
  9. University of Waterloo


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