Frontier city
Subtitle: Toronto on the verge of greatness
By: Shawn Micallef
Edition: Hardcover edition.
Publisher: Signal; McClelland &Stewart
Published: 2016
Place of publication: [Toronto, Ontario]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9780771059322; 9780771059339
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Social change; Political candidates; Politics and government; Changement social; Politique et gouvernement; Candidats (Élections)
Description: "This is a book about a city in the throes of an identity crisis--a city as vast as Los Angeles, experiencing both the prosperity and the poverty associated with such a big place, without the infrastructure to support its growing population--a city bursting at its seams. Shawn Micallef introduces us to those fighting for a more inclusive vision of the city, some with humour, some with hard work. He stands on doorsteps with candidates who challenge the negatives of Ford Nation by energizing their communities, never shying away from the problems that exist within them--poverty, violence, racism, and drugs--but advocating solutions that bring people together. It is in the efforts of these people that Micallef finds the promise and the potential for a city, suffering through a severe identity crisis but on the verge of greatness and set to be a new urban model worldwide."--
Notes: "Hardcover edition published, 2016"--Title page verso.

Issued also in electronic format.
Table of contents: title: A population of populations; title: The front lines of discontent; title: The folks of Ffolkes and the politics of potholes; title: Out by the airport, running against giants; title: Bare-chested politics; title: How the rules changed during the season of hate; title: The heart ofa big city that always thinks small; title: Where downtown and suburbs meet; title: Chasing Toronto's myhthology on the subway to nowhwere; title: Finding a place to live in the million-dollar city; title: While Nero tweeted; title: A city peoccupied with dividing itself; title: Outliers and bedbus ont he Scarborough Bluffs; title: The end of Toronto?