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  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. Challenging McWorld
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
  3. Connexions Library: Community & Urban Focus 
    Resource Type: Website
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on community and urban issues.
  4. Continuous Excursions
    Politics and Personal Life
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982
    Colman looks at the idea that 'the personal is political'. He looks at personal life in pre-capitalist societies, the nature of politics and social relations, patriarchy and sexual relations, intimacy and personal life, indviduality and public life.
  5. Guerrilla gardening
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    Resource Type: Article
    Political gardening, a form of direct action, primarily practiced by environmentalists.
  6. Kavita Krishnan: 'Women's Liberation, Everyone's Liberation'
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Kavita Krishnan, a socialist organizer and a well-known international spokesperson for the movement against sexual violence in India, speaks on sexual violence, everyday sexism, protest, solidarity, and public space in India.
  7. Museums, Art and the Rackets
    Against The Current vol. 121
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    In the late 1990s when it appeared that the laws of capitalism had been suspended temporarily and wealth could be accrued purely on speculation, the New York Times began an annual full-section report on museums, those once fusty and staid zones of quiet suddenly become hot public draws. Its 21 April, 1999, issue extols the role museums play in rebuilding urban economies worldwide. The Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Frank Gehry-designed Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain, and new wings of the Metropolitan in New York have been instrumental in fostering urban pride and capital flows.
  8. Privatizing the Public Realm
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1998
    Public spaces are the arenas where the collective, common life which defines us as a society is acted out, and where we come into contact with those who are like and those who are different from ourselves. They are the places where we are all equal and where we are all "home." They are the places where our freedoms of speech and assembly are protected, where we can exercise the precious right of criticizing the government. In public spaces we are reminded of the most important civics lesson: We are all in this together. When private agendas of stratification and control are imposed on those places, the very heart of democratic principle is threatened.
  9. Reclaiming the Commons
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2002
    Why we need to protect our public resources from private encroachment.
  10. spacing: whose space is public space?
    Resource Type: Website
    Public space is at the heart of democracy. It's where people interact, teach, learn, participate, and protest. Spacing covers the numerous political, cultural, and social issues affecting our lives in the public realm.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
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