Dream States

By John Lorinc
Categories: Social Science

WINNER OF THE 2022 WRITERS' TRUST BALSILLIE PRIZE FOR PUBLIC POLICY

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 DONNER BOOK PRIZE

Is the ‘smart city’ the utopia we’ve been waiting for?

The promise of the so-called smart ...

Rebound

By Perry King
Categories: Sports & Recreation

HERITAGE TORONTO 2022 BOOK AWARD NOMINEE

From basketball hoops to cricket bats, the role community sports play in our cities and how crucial they are to diversity and inclusion.

“The virus exposed how ...

Indigenous Toronto

Edited by Denise Bolduc, Mnawaate Gordon-Corbiere, Rebeka Tabobondung, and Brian Wright-McLeod
Categories: Literary Collections

WINNER OF THE HERITAGE TORONTO 2022 BOOK AWARD

Rich and diverse narratives of Indigenous Toronto, past and present

Beneath many major North American cities rests a deep foundation of Indigenous history ...

Any Night of the Week

By Jonny Dovercourt
Categories: Social Science

The story of how Toronto became a music mecca.

From Yonge Street to Yorkville to Queen West to College, the neighbourhoods that housed Toronto’s music scenes. Featuring Syrinx, Rough Trade, Martha and ...

House Divided

Edited by Alex Bozikovic, Cheryll Case, John Lorinc, and Annabel Vaughan
Categories: Political Science

A citizen's guide to making the big city a place where we can afford to live.
Housing is increasingly unattainable in successful global cities, and Toronto is no exception - in part because of zoning ...

The Ward Uncovered

Edited by John Lorinc, Holly Martelle, Michael McClelland, and Tatum Taylor
Categories: Social Science

In early 2015, a team of archaeologists began digging test trenches on a non-descript parking lot next to Toronto City Hall -- a site designated to become a major new court house. What they discovered ...

Haircuts by Children and Other Evidence for a New Social Contract

By Darren O'Donnell
Categories: Social Science
Series: EXPLODED VIEWS

A cultural planner's immodest proposal: change how we think about children and we just might change the world.

We live in an ‘adultitarian’ state, where the rules are based on very adult priori- ties ...

Any Other Way

Edited by Stephanie Chambers, Jane Farrow, Maureen FitzGerald, Ed Jackson, John Lorinc, Tim McCaskell, Rebecka Sheffield, Tatum Taylor, and Rahim Thawer
Categories: Social Science

Toronto is home to multiple and thriving queer communities that reflect the dynamism of a global city. Any Other Way is an eclectic and richly illustrated local history that reveals how these individuals ...

Subdivided

By Jay Pitter & John Lorinc
Categories: Political Science

How do we build cities where we aren't just living within the same urban space, but living together?

Greater Toronto is now home to a larger proportion of foreign-born residents than any other major global ...

The Ward

Edited by John Lorinc, Michael McClelland, and Ellen Scheinberg
Categories: Political Science

The story of the growth and destruction of Toronto's first 'priority neighbourhood.'

From the 1840s until the Second World War, waves of newcomers who migrated to Toronto – Irish, Jewish, Italian, African ...