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Can I read Some Great Idea : Good Neighbourhoods, Crazy Politics and the Invention of Toronto on EtoBox?
Some Great Idea : Good Neighbourhoods, Crazy Politics and the Invention of Toronto by Edward Keenan is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Some Great Idea : Good Neighbourhoods, Crazy Politics and the Invention of Toronto about?
Since 2010, Toronto's headlines have been consumed by the outrageous personal foibles and government-slashing, anti-urbanist policies of Mayor Rob Ford. But the heated debate at City Hall has obscured a bigger, decade-long narrative of Toronto's ascendance as a mature global city. Some Great Idea traces how post-amalgamation, and under three very different mayors, Toronto managed to so quickly oscillate from one extreme to another, and how the city might proceed from here. Some Great Idea includes behind-the-scenes tales from the Miller and Ford campaigns, and explores recent turning points like the city's core service review and the mayor’s con?ict-of-interest trial. Through personal history, keen reportage and revelatory analysis, it shows how the fundamental principles of diversity and democracy that have made Toronto such a vibrant, dynamic 21st-century city can produce an unlikely politician like Ford. And how those same principles have vividly and repeatedly insisted that such politicians are only part of a larger, messier and more productive urban politics. This is a story about both Toronto's past and present, how the city has relentlessly and collaboratively reinvented
Who reads Some Great Idea : Good Neighbourhoods, Crazy Politics and the Invention of Toronto?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Edward Keenan
- Publisher
- Coach House Books
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781552452660
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Political Science, Fiction, Sociology
- Rating
- 4.04 / 5 (103 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14