{"product_id":"9781770563261","title":"Some Great Idea: Good Neighbourhoods, Crazy Politics and the Invention of Toronto","description":"\u003cp\u003eSince 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 ascendance as a mature global city. \u003cem\u003eSome Great Idea\u003c\/em\u003e traces how post-amalgamation, and under three very different mayors, Toronto managed to so quickly oscillate from one extreme to another, and how the city might proceed from here. \u003cem\u003eSome Great Idea\u003c\/em\u003e includes behind-the-scenes tales from the Miller and Ford campaigns, and explores recent turning points like the city's core service review and the mayor’s conflict-of-interest trial. Through personal history, keen reportage and revelatory analysis, it shows how the fundamental principles of diversity and democracy that have made Toronto such a vibrant, dynamic 21st-century city can produce an unlikely politician like Ford. And how those same principles have vividly and repeatedly insisted that such politicians are only part of a larger, messier and more productive urban politics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is a story about both Toronto's past and present, how the city has relentlessly and collaboratively reinvented itself. But it's also a story about Toronto's future, and what that future might mean for all global cities. This is a story that says you \u003cem\u003ecan\u003c\/em\u003e fight city hall.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Coach House Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47135344099568,"sku":"9781770563261","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781770563261_p0.jpg?v=1763706556","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781770563261","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}