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Its election year in Toronto. Mayor David Miller is leaving office, and leaving behind a nagging worry that it might be harder than we ever anticipated to get anything substantial accomplished from within City Hall. Maybe, just maybe, we can get more done from without. Shifting from the what of the previous uTOpia books to how, Local Motion presents an in-depth analysis of civic engagement in Canadas largest city. Decisions about the things that matter to us most on a daily basis our schools and roads and houses happen at the city level. So, how do we influence these decisions? What motivates ordinary citizens to take action and improve their community? How do neighbours organize together? Does City Hall help facilitate engagement, or stand in the way? Local Motion explores how we, as citizens, can make a positive change in our city. Essays by politicians and senior journalists explain what makes one city, Toronto, tick and stall. They explore electoral reform, civic organizations, ethnicity and racism, the press gallery and grassroots activism, offering up ways in which the people who live there might help to make their city a better, more humane one. Former Winnipeg mayor a

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Author

Alana Wilcox; Christina Palassio; Dave Meslin

Publisher

Toronto: Coach House Books

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781552452387

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Fiction, Social_sciences

Rating

4.21 / 5 (19 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14