1. 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.
2. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Volume 3, Number 1 - February 1978
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1978
   
3. Cities Need More Public Transit, Not More Uber and Self-Driving Cars
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2016
   In the near future, it is likely that cities will come under intense pressure to sacrifice public transportation in favor of new, private, car-dependent alternatives, even at a time when city planners are suggesting reducing or even eliminating car use in cities.The article looks into the benefits of the new technologies, as well as benefits of public transit.
4. A Citizen's Guide to City Politics
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1972
   
5. Connexions Digest
   Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1992
   
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. The Developers
   Resource Type: Book
   
9. Gentrification and Class Struggles in Barcelona, Spain: Interview with Etcétera Collective
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2018
   In an interview with the Barcelona-based collective Etcetera, the processes of urban development in one of the fastest gentrifying cities in Spain and their implications for potential movements and struggles are examined.
10. Goodman, Paul
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    American sociologist, poet, writer, anarchist, social critic, and public intellectual. (1911-1972).
11. A Green City Program
    For San Francisco Bay Area Cities & Towns
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    Ideas for green, sustainable cities.
12. The Greening of the Cities
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    
13. Highrise and Superprofits
    An Analysis of the Development Industry in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    
14. How We Changed Toronto
    The inside story of twelve creative, tumultuous years in civic life, 1969-1980
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2015
    By the mid-1960s Toronto was well on its way to becoming Canada's largest and most powerful city. One real estate firm aptly labelled it Boomtown. Expressways, subways, shopping centres, high-rise apartments, and skyscraping downtown office towers were transforming the city. City officials were cheerleaders for unrestricted growth.
15. 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).
16. A New City Agenda
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    While Canadians have quickly recognized the importance of healthy cities in their own lives and communities, governments have lagged far behind. In A New City Agenda, journalist and former mayor, John Sewell answers the question: What would a new deal for cities look like? He articulates a new vision for Canada’s largest urban regions and the implementation of required changes in social services, public education, settlement, health, housing, policing, land use and governance.
17. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 18, 2017
    Public Transit
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2017
    Public transit - good affordable public transit - is key to a liveable city. Around the world, there are movements of transit riders fighting for better public transit. A key perspective guiding many of these struggles is the idea that transit should be free, that is, paid for not by fares, but out of general revenues. This is how roads are normally funded: their construction and maintenance are paid for by taxes, rarely by user fees. Free public transit by itself would not be enough, however. We also need good transit, transit that runs frequently and goes where people want to go.
18. Our Generation
    Volume 10 Number 3
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1974
    
19. Paul Goodman: Writing on the Web
    Resource Type: Website
    Writings of the social critic Paul Goodman.
20. Red Bologna
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
    Examines the Communist administration of the city of Bologna.
21. The Secret History of Jaywalking: The Disturbing Reason It Was Outlawed - And Why We Should Lift the Ban
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Mangla narrates the origins of jaywalking and the reason why it was made illegal.
22. 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.
23. The Shape of the City
    Toronto Struggles with Modern Planning
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    John Sewell traces in urban planning from pre-Depression garden cities to postwar modernism and a revival of interest in the streetscape grid.
24. 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.
25. 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.
26. 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.
27. 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.
28. Towns for People
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    Examines the pressures, lifestyle changes, and social factors that contributed to the decline in urban public life in the late 20th century.
29. Turning Estates into Villages
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    How good planning can make us slimmer, fitter, safer and less lonely.
30. The Uses of Disorder
    Personal Identity and City Life
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
    An examination of the ways the modern city has failed, and an exploration of new modes of urban organization through which city life can become richer and more life-affirming.
31. Utopian Essays and Practical Proposals 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1951   Published: 1962
    Whatever the subject, Goodman asks: What blocks and limits human freedom, joy, and creativity? What tends to release, free, liberate? In criticizing society and life his purpose is to improve. Goodman is animated by a vision of a good society, a coherent community, a style, and quality, of life that is fully human, and humanizes.

Experts on Planification urbaine in the Sources Directory

1. The Preservation Institute