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  • Vancouver Ltd.

    Donald Gutstein

    Donald Gutstein reveals the tangled web of corporate ownership and influence, family relationships and social contacts which held the Vancouver business establishment together in the 1970s

    $29.95, Paperback

  • Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs

    Mariana Valverde, Alexandra Flynn

    Experts from across the country investigate the "smart city" trend in urban planning as it is showing up in different Canadian municipalities.

    $22.95, Paperback

  • How We Changed Toronto

    John Sewell
    John Sewell provides an insider's account of the period when Toronto was transformed by activist citizens and reforming politicians
    $29.95, Hardcover

  • Sweethearts

    Catherine Wismer
    The story of how Jewish developers, Italian workers, corrupt union leaders and Mafia money built high-rise Toronto.
    $27.95, Paperback

  • Toronto Since 1918

    James Lemon
    In Toronto Since 1918, first released in 1985, author James Lemon explores seventy years of Toronto's development.
    $29.95, Paperback

  • Toronto to 1918

    J.M.S. Careless
    Toronto to 1918, first published in 1984, examines the lives of the people who built Toronto.
    $29.95, Paperback

  • Giants of Garbage

    Harold Crooks

    Harold Crooks chronicles the history of waste management, showing how "privatization" ideology set the stage for the local refuse collection business to become a global corporate enterprise.

    $19.95, Paperback
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    Toronto Since 1918

    James Lemon
    In Toronto Since 1918, first released in 1985, author James Lemon explores seventy years of Toronto's development.
    $34.95, Hardcover

  • And Where Do We Go From Here?

    Janet McClain
    Written in 1982, this book examines the difficulty renters face in the rental housing market, and whether housing allowance programs are adequate to provide the framework of intervention needed to resolve these difficulties.
    $35.00, Paperback
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    Old Naledi: The Village Becomes a Town

    John van Nostrand
    Faced with conditions of rapid industrialization and a consequent shortage of low-income housing, the Government of Botswana has realized the potential for existing squatter settlements to serve as sound urban communities.
    $35.00, Paperback

  • Sweethearts

    Catherine Wismer
    The story of how Jewish developers, Italian workers, corrupt union leaders and Mafia money built high-rise Toronto.
    $9.95, Paperback

  • City for Sale

    Henry Aubin
    City for Sale is a penetrating, myth-shattering analysis of land ownership and related forces behind Canadian urban development in the 1970s.
    $11.95, Paperback
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    The Second City Book

    James Lorimer, Evelyn Ross
    The Second City Book is a vivid, eye-opening report from one of the busiest and most controversial periods in Canada's development history.
    $11.95, Paperback

  • Land and Urban Development

    Peter Spurr

    Land and Urban Development presents an extremely detailed analysis of the mechanics of urban development at a crucial period in Canadian history.

    $19.95, Paperback

  • The Tiny Perfect Mayor

    Jon Caulfield
    When David Crombie won his surprise victory in the 1972 mayoralty race in Toronto, everyone thought it was a victory for citizen activism and for a saner approach to urban development. Was it?
    $14.95, Paperback

  • The Tiny Perfect Mayor

    Jon Caulfield
    When David Crombie won his surprise victory in the 1972 mayoralty race in Toronto, everyone thought it was a victory for citizen activism and for a saner approach to urban development. Was it?
    $45.00, Hardcover

  • A Citizen's Guide to City Politics

    James Lorimer, Myfanwy Phillips
    First published in 1972, A Citizen's Guide to City Politics is a pioneering examination of Canadian urban development and city politics.
    $19.95, Paperback

  • Up Against City Hall

    John Sewell
    First published in 1972, Up Against City Hall is a inside look at a period of remarkable change in Canadian municipal politics penned by one of the nation's most effective reformers.
    $14.95, Paperback

  • Working People

    James Lorimer, Myfanwy Phillips
    This book is a portrait of the people and events of a working-class Toronto neighbourhood under pressure from developers and middle-class renovators.
    $14.95, Paperback
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