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by Edward Keenan

  • Narrated by: Adam Paul
  • Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
  • Release date: 10-30-13
  • Language: English

Since 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. Some Great Idea 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. Some Great Idea 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. This 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.

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Author

Edward Keenan

Language

English

Length

6 hrs and 2 mins

Narrated by

Adam Paul

Release date

10-30-13

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