Urban meltdown : cities, climate change and politics as usual /
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| Author / Creator: | Doucet, Clive, 1946- |
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| Imprint: | Gabriola Island, BC : New Society Publishers, c2007. |
| Description: | xix, 251 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6326805 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- Part I. A Poet Goes to City Hall
- 1. Global Cities and Horse and Buggy Nations
- 2. Neighborhoods to Love
- 3. The Barbell Society and Just-in-Time Delivery
- 4. From Mont Tremblant to Ski Tremblant
- 5. Along Bayswater Street
- 6. Urban Villages
- 7. It ain't Planning. It's Politics
- 8. Citizenship versus Faithship
- Part II. The Idea of Progress and Why We Got it Wrong
- 9. The Mayor of Hiroshima and Intimations of God
- 10. The Idea of Progress and the First Nations
- 11. Biological and Social Phase Transitions
- 12. Cod, Government and the Transpiration Cycle
- 13. Care of the Soul/Care of the City/Care for the Planet
- 14. 1984-2004: Poets and Visions
- 15. Cape Breton Beaches and the Gulf of Mexico
- Part III. Trying to Create a New Order of Things
- 16. The Rise of Cities and Decline of the Planet
- 17. 689 Spadina and Coming of Age in Toronto
- 18. The 1960s: A global paradigm shift that never happened and how the same pattern is repeating itself
- 19. The World Social Forum II and Trying to Change Things
- 20. The World Social Forum III and Failing to Change Things
- 21. Saving the World with Stephen Lewis?
- 22. The Bush Bubble Comes to Ottawa
- 23. Jean de La Fontaine
- 24. Cities, Climate Change and Politics as Usual
- Epilogue
- Endnotes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author
