num_pages: 171
description: 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 ascending as a mature global city. It raises What role does a mayor play in a city's temperament and self-confidence? Can a terrible mayor make a city better by forcing its citizens to engage? What place is there in our new decentralized global open-source world for an autocrat?Edward Keenan serves as senior editor and lead columnist at The Grid magazine in Toronto Ontario. An eight-time finalist at the National Magazine Awards he has written for and edited at Eye Weekly  Spacing magazine and The Walrus .
language: English
title: Some Great Idea: Good Neighbourhoods, Crazy Politics and the Invention of Toronto
publisher: Coach House Books