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  1. Architecture for People
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1980
    A book of possible solutions for the problems of modern architecture.
  2. The Canadian City
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    Based on the belief that a healthy city life is possible, this volume collects articles, stories and histories about the city and its people, covering aspects such as human and social relations, art and architecture, urban planning, land development, and the greening of the urban environment.
  3. Cities for People
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1999
    How two experiments in participatory democracy have transformed the political culture in Brazil and Uruguay.
  4. Citizens Group Scores Success in Anti-lead Battle
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1986   Published: 1987
    Through self-education, out-reach, and activism, the Niagara Neighbourhood Lead Committee has successfully worked to reduce lead risks in their neighbourhood and throughout Canada.
  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. Connexions Library: Community & Urban Focus 
    Resource Type: Website
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on community and urban issues.
  7. Connexions Library: Environment Focus 
    Resource Type: Website
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on environment, ecology, climate change, pollution, and land use.
  8. Curitiba: the Greenest city on Earth
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Eco-savvy urban planners have been studying Brazil's seventh largest city for decades.
  9. The Earthscan Action Handbook
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    A compendium of the world's major ills with suggestions for remedial action.
  10. EnvironmentSources.com
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2017
    Web portal with information about environmental issues and resources, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
  11. The First International Ecological City Conference
    Conference Report

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
  12. Fluvarium
    Resource Type: Website
    The word Fluvarium literally means "windows on a stream". In this case, the stream is Nagles's Hill Brook, a tributary of Rennies River, which has been diverted to flow past nine underwater windows.
  13. A Green City Program
    For San Francisco Bay Area Cities & Towns

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    Ideas for green, sustainable cities.
  14. A Green History of the World 
    The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    Ponting tracks the "green" history of the world showing how throughout history civilizations have collapsed when they exhausted the earth's natural resources.
  15. The Greening of the Cities
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
  16. GreenTOpia 
    Towards A Sustainable Toronto, uTOpia Volume Three

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    The third volume of the uTOpia series features a collection of essays that look at innovative and imaginative ways to promote sustainability in Toronto. Also included is a directory of resources, organizations, incentives and programs in and around the GTA.
  17. Home!
    A Bioregional Reader

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    A guide to the vision and strategy of bioregionalism.
  18. Keep our front gardens green!
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    It's time to halt the loss of the nation's front gardens to dreary paving, writes Jenny Jones. Green gardens protect against floods, provide homes for wildlife, keep cities cool in summer, and help us all feel happier. Now, with 7 million gardens already paved over, we must protect those that remain.
  19. Legacy
    The Natural History of Ontario

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    A comprehensive, extensively illustrated natural history of Ontario, covering bedrock, soils, birds, mammals, insects, wildflowers, forests, prehistoric life, and much more.
  20. Local Places In the Age of the Global City 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
    The contributors to Local Places look at the complex social, economic and political contexts of cities in the 1990s and suggest that cities and urbanity, while part of the problem, also need to be considered as part of the solution.
  21. Organizing Around Transit: At the Intersection of Environmental Justice and Class Struggle
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    For the older big cities in North America, public transit is critical to their daily functioning. Organizing among workers and riders on public transit has a strategic importance.
  22. Paul Goodman: Writing on the Web
    Resource Type: Website
    Writings of the social critic Paul Goodman.
  23. Regeneration
    Toronto's Waterfront and the Sustainable City

    Resource Type: Book
  24. Seven News
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First 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.
  25. A Short History of Progress
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    If the population growth, consumption of resources, and technological advances continue according to the trend of the twentieth century, at the expense of the earth, the outcome may be disastrous.
  26. Stop Signs
    Cars and Capitalism on the Road to Economic, Social and Ecological Decay

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    A global ecological critique of the American automobile addiction.
  27. Toronto Public Space Committee
    Organization profile published 2007

    Resource Type: Organization
    Inactive/Defunct Organization
    We are dedicated to protecting our shared common spaces from commercial influence and privatisation.
  28. Toward Sustainable Communities
    Resources for Citizens and their Governments

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992   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.
  29. Unitary urbanism
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Critique of status quo urbanism employed by the Lettrist International and then further developed by the Situationist International
  30. What's Wrong With Front Yard Parking?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1994
    The negative effects of front yard parking are significant, and affect us all. The benefits are small, and go only to a few.
  31. 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.

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