The Real World of City Politics

by James Lorimer and James Lorimer

Book Overview

First published in 1970, this book documents a kind of city government then all too common in Canada: a closed circle of politicians and bureaucrats closely linked to friends in the land development business and hostile to ordinary city residents. The book describes six issues that pitted citizens against the civic government in Toronto in 1969. These are classic examples of situations repeated in every other Canadian city--an unnecessary expropriation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0888620039
• ISBN13: 9780888620033
• Release Date: January 1970
• Publisher: Lorimer
• Length: 160 Pages