Prologue -- Part I. A poet goes to city hall -- 1. Global cities and horse and buggy nations -- 2. Neighborhoods to love -- 3. The barbell society and just-in-time delivery -- 4. From Mont Tremblant to Ski Tremblant -- 5. Along Bayswater Street -- 6. Urban villages -- 7. It ain't planning. It's politics -- 8. Citizenship versus faithship -- Part II. The idea of progress and why we got it wrong -- 9. The mayor of Hiroshima and intimations of God -- 10. The idea of progress and First Nations -- 11. Biological and social phase transitions -- 12. Cod, government and the transpiration cycle -- 13. Care of the soul/care of the city/care for the planet -- 14. 1984-2004 : poets and visions -- 15. Cape Breton beaches and the Gulf of Mexico -- Part III. Trying to create a new order of things -- 16. The rise of cities and decline of the planet -- 17. 689 Spadina and coming of age in Toronto -- 18. The 1960s : a global paradin shift that never happened and how the same pattern is repeating itself -- 19. The World Social Forum II and trying to change things -- 20. The World Social Forum III and failing to change things -- 21. Saving the world with Stephen Lewis? -- 22. The Bush bubble comes to Ottawa -- 23. Jean de La Fontaine -- 24. Cities, climate change and politics as usual
Summary
Urban Meltdown anchors climate change in cities where 80 percent of the greenhouse gases are generated. An insiders take on how city council really works, it calls for a radical change in how cities grow, are managed and are governed
