Saving Toronto - by Ken Greenberg & Anne Golden (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Once celebrated as the city that works, Toronto is a city on the brink.

Featuring: Ilana Altman, Zahra Ebrahim, Anne Golden, Tim Gray, Ken Greenberg, Franz Hartmann, Josh Matlow, Matti Siemiatycki, Enid Slack, Bianca Wylie.

Strained by urban sprawl, crumbling infrastructure, and chronic under-funding, Canada's largest city is coming apart at the seams. Its promise -- of livability, opportunity, and innovation -- is being undermined by years of inaction and political gridlock.

But all is not lost.

In Saving Toronto, ten leading city builders set out a bold, practical roadmap to turn things around. In their essays, they highlight the city's problems in governance, finances, housing, transport, environment, technology, infrastructure, social cohesion, and public space and offer coordinated responses.

This is a wake-up call -- Toronto's future can still be saved.

About the Author

Ken Greenberg, C.M., is an urban designer, writer, and former director of Urban Design and Architecture for the City of Toronto. A recipient of an honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Toronto, he is the author of Walking Home, Toronto Reborn, and Exploring Toronto.

Anne Golden, C.M. and O. Ont., is past president of the United Way of Greater Toronto and the Conference Board of Canada. She gained national recognition as a policy expert for her reports on homelessness, the future of Greater Toronto, and transit investment.