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Below are resources (books, articles, etc.) in the Connexions Library related to this topic. Clicking on an item's title takes you to its bibliographic page, which typically contains author, publisher, and cataloguing details, an abstract where available, and a link to the full text if available online, as well as links to related topics in the subject index. You can also search for materials through the Title, Author, Subject, Chronological, Dewey, Library of Congress, and Format indexes.
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  1. All That Is Solid Melts Into Air 
    The Experience of Modernity

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982   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.
  2. The American Socialist Movement: 1897-1912
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1952
  3. Bowling Alone
    The Collapse and Revival of American Community

    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
  4. The Canadian City
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
  5. Cities and the Wealth of Nations
    Principles of Economic Life

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984
  6. A Citizen's Guide to City Politics
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
  7. 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.
  8. Communitas 
    Means of Livelihood and Ways of Life

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1947   Published: 1960
    Visions of urban life.
  9. Dark Age Ahead
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
  10. 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.
  11. The Economy of Cities
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
  12. A Green City Program
    For San Francisco Bay Area Cities & Towns

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
  13. 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.
  14. The Greening of the Cities
    Resource Type: Book
  15. Highrise and Superprofits
    An Analysis of the Development Industry in Canada

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
  16. Home!
    A Bioregional Reader

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    A guide to the vision and strategy of bioregionalism.
  17. Jacobs, Jane
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    American-born Canadian urbanist, writer and activist. (1916-2006).
  18. The Latin American City
    Resource Type: Book
    Looks at the region’s urban explosion from the perspective of the poor.
  19. 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).
  20. Local Places In the Age of the Global City 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
  21. Man's Worldly Goods
    The Story of the Wealth of Nations

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1936   Published: 1968
  22. Nature of Economies
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000   Published: 2001
  23. New Internationalist Online
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Articles from the New Internationalist, chat forum, ethical shopping, more.
  24. The Politics of Urban Liberation
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1978
  25. Radical Digressions 2
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 1981   Published: 2000
  26. 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.
  27. Red Bologna
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
  28. The Seventh Fire
    The Struggle for Aboriginal Government

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    Describes the struggles of aboriginal people to run their own affairs.
  29. The Shape of the City
    Toronto Struggles with Modern Planning

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
  30. 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.
  31. Up Against City Hall
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
  32. Worldchanging: A User's Guide to the 21st Century
    A User's Guide for the 21st Century

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    A User's Guide to the 21st Century is a compendium of everything a generation of environmental activists has to offer.

Experts on Cities in the Sources Directory

  1. Simon Fraser University
  2. University of Winnipeg



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