New Urban Agenda (eBook)

The Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area

Bill Freeman (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2015
264 Seiten
Dundurn (Verlag)
978-1-4597-3111-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Equal parts history, social science, and call to action, The New Urban Agenda focuses on fixing the major issues facing the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA). Award-winning author Bill Freeman shows how cities have overcome them in the past, and gives level-headed advice for tackling Toronto's biggest challenges.

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2015 Speaker's Book Award - ShortlistedCity planning in the GTHA has been mired in political grandstanding for the past decade, The New Urban Agenda offers a plain language solution to the issues plaguing the GTHA.Politics in the Greater Toronto, Hamilton Area (GTHA) have become increasingly divisive over the past decade, and solutions to the city's problems have become hot-topic issues debated in council and the press, but never finding resolution.The New Urban Agenda is equal parts history, social science, and call to action to solve the major problems facing the GTHA. Issues such as urban and suburban development, transit, the region's environmental impact, affordable housing, and the seemingly inherent gridlock of municipal politics are all discussed. Award-winning author Bill Freeman offers a level-headed approach to the problems and lays out an agenda that will lead to an improvement in the quality of life in our neighbourhoods and downtowns and make our cities more economically viable. He encourages individuals and communities to speak up for themselves and get involved in politics at a grassroots level. With no shortage of examples, he shows how this strategy can create the change that is needed to move cities forward in a way that benefits everyone, not just the business and political elite.

Autor

Bill Freeman is a writer of eighteen books on Canadian life and urban issues, including Shantymen of Cache Lake, which won the Canada Council Award for Juvenile Literature. He was the script-writer for the popular Mighty Machines television series for children. Bill holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from McMaster University, and is a past chair of the Writers’ Union of Canada. He lives on Toronto Island. www.billfreeman.ca

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.6.2015
• Vorwort: Christopher Hume
• Verlagsort: Toronto
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: affordability • Affordable Housing • bicycle lanes • bicycles • Buses • city councillors • city politics • commuters • condos • Cycling • decline of manufacturing • dedicated bus lanes • deepening democracy • Expressways • gridlock • High-Rise • high-rise ghettos • Homelessness • income inequality • Light Rapid Transit • low-income jobs • LRT • Mayors • Planning • politics of cities • Poverty • public spaces • redesigning cities • retrofitting buildings • streetcars • Subways • Traffic • Transit • Transportation • Urban • Urbanism • urban politics
• ISBN-10: 1-4597-3111-5 / 1459731115
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4597-3111-0 / 9781459731110