Canadian cities and sovereignty association

by Jane Jacobs

63 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1980

About the author

Jane Jacobs, OC, O.Ont (May 4, 1916 – April 25, 2006) was an American-born Canadian writer and activist with primary interest in communities and urban planning and decay. She is best known for The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961), a powerful critique of the urban renewal policies of the 1950s in the United States. The book has been credited with reaching beyond planning issues to influence the spirit of the times.
Along with her well-known printed works, Jacobs is equally well-known for organizing grassroots efforts to block urban-renewal projects that would have destroyed local neighborhoods. She was instrumental in the eventual cancellation of the Lower Manhattan Expressway, and after moving to Canada in 1968, equally influential in canceling the Spadina Expressway and the associated network of highways under construction.

Reviews

[Jerry Wall]

Quebec sovereignty considered. Discussions of differences in development of Montreal and Toronto. Also considerations of separation in 1905 of Norway from Sweden. Also discussion of currencies (monetary system) of Ireland vis a vis England and Scotland, etc.
And also trade as it must be considered in concerns about Quebec splitting from Canada to have its own sovereignty.