Some Great Idea: Good Neighbourhoods, Crazy Politics and the Invention of Toronto

by Edward Keenan

Since 2010, Toronto's headlines have been consumed by the outrageous personal foibles and government-slashing, anti-urbanist policies of Mayor Rob Ford. But the heated debate at City Hall has obscured a bigger, decade-long narrative of Toronto's ascendance as a mature global city. Some Great Idea traces how post-amalgamation, and under three very different mayors, Toronto managed to so quickly oscillate from one extreme to another, and how the city...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1552452662
• ISBN13: 9781552452660
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Coach House Books
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.1" x 8.1"