From the Book - Regular Print
Part I A Poet Goes to City Hall 1 --
1 Global Cities and Horse and Buggy Nations 3 --
2 Neighborhoods to Love 11 --
3 Barbell Society and Just-in-Time Delivery 25 --
4 From Mont Tremblant to Ski Tremblant 37 --
5 Along Bayswater Street 43 --
7 It ain't Planning. It's Politics 57 --
8 Citizenship versus Faithship 65 --
Part II Idea of Progress and Why We Got it Wrong 71 --
9 Mayor of Hiroshima and Intimations of God 73 --
10 Idea of Progress and the First Nations 79 --
11 Biological and Social Phase Transitions 89 --
12 Cod, Government and the Transpiration Cycle 99 --
13 Care of the Soul/Care of the City/Care for the Planet 105 --
14 1984-2004: Poets and Visions 111 --
15 Cape Breton Beaches and the Gulf of Mexico 117 --
Part III Trying to Create a New Order of Things 121 --
16 Rise of Cities and Decline of the Planet 123 --
17 689 Spadina and Coming of Age in Toronto 143 --
18 The 1960s: A global paradigm shift that never happened and how the same pattern is repeating itself 161 --
19 World Social Forum II and Trying to Change Things 183 --
20 World Social Forum III and Failing to Change Things 189 --
21 Saving the World with Stephen Lewis? 195 --
22 Bush Bubble Comes to Ottawa 203 --
23 Jean de La Fontaine 207 --
24 Cities, Climate Change and Politics as Usual 215.