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The New Urban Agenda: The Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area
2015 Speaker's Book Award ― Shortlisted
City 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.
City 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.
240 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 2015
About the author
Bill Freeman
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Born in London, Ontario of a school teacher's family, Bill now lives on Toronto Island where he writes books, plays, travel features, videos, and film scripts. He is best known for the "Bains Series" of novels for children set in Canada in the 1870s. There are now seven books in the series. He plans to write twelve altogether with settings in every part of the country. A film series by CBC and BBC is in the planning stages.
There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name
Born in London, Ontario of a school teacher's family, Bill now lives on Toronto Island where he writes books, plays, travel features, videos, and film scripts. He is best known for the "Bains Series" of novels for children set in Canada in the 1870s. There are now seven books in the series. He plans to write twelve altogether with settings in every part of the country. A film series by CBC and BBC is in the planning stages.
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