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  1. All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
    The Experience of Modernity

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    Berman examines the clash of classes, histories, and clutures in the modern world, and ponders our prospects for coming to terms with the relationship between a liberating social and philosophical idealism and a complex, bureaucratic materialism.
  2. The American Socialist Movement: 1897-1912
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1952
  3. Bowling Alone
    The Collapse and Revival of American Community

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
    Bowling Alone documents the rise and fall of community activity in the twentieth century in the United States and the social changes this reflects. It offers all the evidence, the confirmatory and the contradictory, to give a complete look at trends of community involvement and how increased social capital can benefit everybody.
  4. The Canadian City
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
  5. Canadian Policy Research Networks (CPRN)
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  6. Cities and the Wealth of Nations
    Principles of Economic Life

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1984
  7. A Citizen's Guide to City Politics
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
  8. The City and Radical Social Change
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1982
    A collection of essays dealing with the dynamics of the new forces for social change in our urban milieu, discussing how new ideas are contributing to an urban insurgency which could lead to a new city and a new concept of citizenship.
  9. City Lives and City Forms
    Critical Research and Canadian Urbanism

    Resource Type: Book
    This book focuses on the interaction between social relations and urban landscape by examining economic and cultural characteristics.
  10. Communitas
    Means of Livelihood and Ways of Life

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1960
    Visions of urban life.
  11. Dark Age Ahead
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
  12. The Death and Life of Great American Cities
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1961
    Jacobs' iconoclastic and brilliant observations on why cities work, and why they don't.
  13. The Economy of Cities
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
  14. A Green City Program
    For San Francisco Bay Area Cities & Towns

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
  15. Green Municipalism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1991
    A green municipalist analysis offers valuable perspectives but can become a straightjacket if it is seen as 'the' answer.
  16. The Greening of the Cities
    Resource Type: Book
  17. Healthy Cities
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
  18. Highrise and Superprofits
    An Analysis of the Development Industry in Canada

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
  19. Home!
    A Bioregional Reader

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    A guide to the vision and strategy of bioregionalism.
  20. Liberal Dreams and Nature's Limits
    Great Cities of North America Since 1600

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
    An exploration of city life through time, focusing on the life [economically, socially, politically, etc.] of five large North American cities at various times in the past - Philadelphia during the time of Benjamin Franklin (1760), New York in the mid nineteenth-century (1860), Chicago at the beginning of the Progressivist Civic Movements (1910), Los Angeles during the immediate Post-war boom (1950) and Toronto at the beginning of its own ascendancy in the 1970's. (1975).
  21. Local Places In the Age of the Global City
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
  22. Man's Worldly Goods
    The Story of the Wealth of Nations

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
  23. Nature of Economies
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
  24. The Politics of Urban Liberation
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
  25. Reclaiming Our Cities & Towns
    Better Living with Less Traffic

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    Cars destroy the environment; people should embrace alternative modes of transportation like bycycling and walking to make urban areas safer and enviromentally sound.
  26. Red Bologna
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1977
  27. The Regional City
    Politics and Planning in Metropolitan Areas

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1965
  28. The Seventh Fire
    The Struggle for Aboriginal Government

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    Describes the struggles of aboriginal people to run their own affairs.
  29. The Shape of the City
    Toronto Struggles with Modern Planning

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
  30. Simon Fraser University
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  31. University of Winnipeg
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  32. Up Against City Hall
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972

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  1. Simon Fraser University
  2. University of Winnipeg

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