Governing Toronto Bringing Back The City That Worked

Author : Alan Redway
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1460252012
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Governing Toronto: Bringing back the city that worked written by Alan Redway and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In stark contrast to the dysfunctional megacity of today, The Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto was a city that worked. Some refer to this period from 1954 to 1998 as Toronto’s “Golden Age”. This book traces the growth and governance of the city from its creation in 1834 through its successful Metro years to why and how the decision was made to establish the present megacity while at the same time either accidentally or deliberately turning the Ontario government into both a provincial government and a regional government, as well, for a significantly enlarged Greater Toronto Area. Then it urges the provincial government to initiate a long over-due review of the governance of the city aimed at returning it to a city that works either by way of a de-amalgamation, as successfully achieved in Montreal, or at the very least by a decentralization of local responsibilities.

Author : Abraham Akkerman
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487512821
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Urban Archetypes of Jane Jacobs and Ebenezer Howard written by Abraham Akkerman and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ebenezer Howard, an Englishman, and Jane Jacobs, a naturalized Canadian, personify the twentieth century’s opposing outlooks on cities. Howard envisaged small towns, newly built from scratch and comprised of single-family homes with small gardens, while Jacobs embraced existing inner-city neighbourhoods that emphasized the verve of the living street. Both figures have had their share of supporters as well as detractors: Howard's conceptualization received criticism for its uniformity and alienation from the city core, while Jacobs’s urban vision came to be recognized as the result of invasive gentrification. Presenting Howard and Jacobs within a psychocultural context, The Urban Archetypes of Jane Jacobs and Ebenezer Howard addresses our urban crisis in its recognition that "city form is a gendered, allegorical medium expressing femininity and masculinity within two founding features of the built environment: void and volume." These founding contrasts represent both tension as well as the opportunity for fusion between pairs of urban polarities: human scale against superscale, gait against speed, and spontaneity against surveillance. In their respective attitudes, Howard and Jacobs have come to embrace the two ancient archetypes of the Garden and the Citadel, leaving it to future generations to blend their two contrarian stances.

Author : Engin F. Isin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135123683
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracy, Citizenship and the Global City written by Engin F. Isin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Democracy, Citizenship and the Global City focuses on the controversial, neglected theme of citizenship. It examines the changing role of citizens; their rights, obligations and responsibilities as members of nation-states and the issue of accountability in a global society. Using this interdisciplinary approach, the book offers an innovative collection of work from Robert A. Beauregard, Anna Bounds, Janine Brodie, Richard Dagger, Gerard Delanty, Judith A. Garber, Robert J. Holton, Warren Magnusson, Raymond Rocco, Nikolas Rose, Evelyn S. Ruppert, Saskia Sassen, Bryan S. Turner, John Urry, Gerda R. Wekerle and Nira Yuval-Davis.

Author : Neil Bradford
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442626275
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Governing Urban Economies written by Neil Bradford and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today more than ever, cities matter to the economic and social well-being of the vast majority of Canadians. Canada's urban centers are simultaneously the engines of the national economy and the places where the risks of social exclusion are most concentrated, making innovative and inclusive urban governance an urgent national priority. Governing Urban Economies is the first detailed scholarly examination of relations among governmental and community-based actors in Canadian city-regions. Comparing patterns of municipal-community relations and federal-provincial interactions across city-regions, this volume tracks the ways in which urban coalitions tackle complex economic and social challenges. Featuring an inter-disciplinary group of established and up-and-coming scholars, this collection breaks new ground in the Canadian urban politics literature and will appeal to urbanists working in a range of national contexts.

Author : Canada. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1518 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book House of Commons Debates, Official Report written by Canada. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andrew Sancton
Publisher : IRPP
ISBN 13 : 9780886451561
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Governing Canada's City-regions written by Andrew Sancton and published by IRPP. This book was released on 1994 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ontario. Dept. of Neglected and Dependent Children
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Report of Work Under the Ontario Children's Protection Act ... written by Ontario. Dept. of Neglected and Dependent Children and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David J. Gordon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108135498
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cities on the World Stage written by David J. Gordon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-07 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities are playing an ever more important role in the mitigation and adaption to climate change. This book examines the politics shaping whether, how and to what extent cities engage in global climate governance. By studying the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, and drawing on scholarship from international relations, social movements, global governance and field theory, the book introduces a theory of global urban governance fields. This theory links observed increases in city engagement and coordination to the convergence of C40 cities around particular ways of understanding and enforcing climate governance. The collective capacity of cities to produce effective and socially equitable global climate governance is also analysed. Highlighting the constraints facing city networks and the potential pitfalls associated with a city-driven global response, this assessment of the transformative potential of cities will be of great interest to researchers, graduate students and policymakers in global environmental politics and policy.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264226508
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Governing the City written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-18 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report presents a typology of metropolitan governance arrangements observed across OECD countries and offers guidance for cities seeking for more effective co-ordination, with a closer look at two sectors that are strategic importance for urban growth: transport and spatial planning.

Author : Emma S. Norman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317089162
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Negotiating Water Governance written by Emma S. Norman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Those who control water, hold power. Complicating matters, water is a flow resource; constantly changing states between liquid, solid, and gas, being incorporated into living and non-living things and crossing boundaries of all kinds. As a result, water governance has much to do with the question of boundaries and scale: who is in and who is out of decision-making structures? Which of the many boundaries that water crosses should be used for decision-making related to its governance? Recently, efforts to understand the relationship between water and political boundaries have come to the fore of water governance debates: how and why does water governance fragment across sectors and governmental departments? How can we govern shared waters more effectively? How do politics and power play out in water governance? This book brings together and connects the work of scholars to engage with such questions. The introduction of scalar debates into water governance discussions is a significant advancement of both governance studies and scalar theory: decision-making with respect to water is often, implicitly, a decision about scale and its related politics. When water managers or scholars explore municipal water service delivery systems, argue that integrated approaches to salmon stewardship are critical to their survival, query the damming of a river to provide power to another region and investigate access to potable water - they are deliberating the politics of scale. Accessible, engaging, and informative, the volume offers an overview and advancement of both scalar and governance studies while examining practical solutions to the challenges of water governance.