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The City and Radical Social Change
Roussopoulos, Dimitrios
Book
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 cit...
Green Municipalism
Diemer, Ulli
Article
1991
A green municipalist analysis offers valuable perspectives but can become a straightjacket if it is seen as 'the' answer.
How We Changed Toronto: The inside story of twelve creative, tumultuous years in civic life, 1969-1980
Sewell, John
Book
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 apa...
Local Places In the Age of the Global City
Keil, Roger, Wekerle, Gerda R., Bell, David V.J. (eds.)
Book
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 con...
Our Generation: Volume 10 Number 3
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1974
Our Generation: Volume 10 Number 4
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1975
Our Generation: Volume 23 Number 1
Roussopoulos, Dimitirios
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1992
The Politics of Urban Liberation
Schecter, Stephen
Book
1978
A broad-ranging study which covers the political economy of the urban question and the importance of the city in the history of social revolution. Schechter's evaluation of libertarian insurgency high...
Radical Digressions 2
Diemer, Ulli
Website
1981
Seven News
Serial Publication (Periodical)
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 long...
Theses on Libertarian Municipalism
Bookchin, Murray
Article
1984
These theses advance the view that a libertarian municipalism is possible and a new civic politics is definable as a dual power that can counterpose assembly and confederal forms to the centralized St...
Up Against City Hall
Sewell, John
Book
1972
John Sewell describes his early life and explains how he accidentally got involved in politics. He tells of his experiences in Trefann Court, and how this opened his eyes to the realities of civic pol...

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Seven News
A community newspaper based in the 'Ward 7' area of Toronto: east of downtown, from Sherbourne Street to Logan Avenue, including Don Vale, Cabbagetown, Regent Park, Riverdale, St. Jamestown. Seven New...

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By the people, for the people?
Diemer, Ulli
1980
A tiny group of appointed politicians is ignoring the what the people have said they want.

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Citizens for Local Democracy Newsletter 20, November 1997
Periodical profile published 1992
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1997
Fighting for democracy and against the Harris government.