Title Democracy in Kingston : a social movement in urban politics, 1965-1970 / Richard Harris

Published Kingston [Ont.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1988

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 203 pages) : illustrations Series CEL - Canadian Publishers Collection Contents Contents -- Tables -- Figures -- Preface -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- 1 An Exemplary Place -- 2 A Synthetic View -- 3 The Inheritance -- 4 Into Unknown Kingston -- 5 Rebels with a Cause -- 6 The Triumph of Hope over Experience -- 7 Two Types of People -- 8 The Dummies Get Smart -- 9 A Democratic Vision -- Appendix A: The City Directory and the Measurement of Social Class -- Appendix B: Patterns of Ward Voting in Federal Elections, Kingston and the Islands, 1958�74 -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I Kl -- m -- n -- o -- p -- q -- r -- s -- t -- u -- v -- w -- y -- z Summary A reform movement in Kingston emerged in 1965, developed steadily over five years, and then rapidly disintegrated. The two major strands of reformers, the New Left and a more diffuse movement of the middle class, drew together in 1968, focusing on the issues of rental housing and urban renewal. The reformers sustained an intense level of political opposition for over two years but, for a variety of reasons, by the end of 1970 the movement had fallen apart and the remaining fragments had apparently lost influence. Harris analyses the reform movement in Kingston in relation to the broader context of reform in North America, suggesting that the distinctive possibilities and problems created by the post-war urban milieu led to the formation of an urban reform movement that polarized city politics along class lines. He argues that at the local level the specific nature of urban reform is shaped by the complex social geography of class and domestic property ownership within each city. Kingston's reform movement had only a limited immediate effect upon the economic and political conditions within the city. Typical of the urban and social refrom movements as a whole, however, its longer term effect upon social attitudes and democratic process has been much greater, and more significant, than has been shown previously Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Urban renewal -- Ontario -- Kingston -- Citizen participation HISTORY -- Canada -- General. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Policy. Politics and government Social conditions Urban renewal -- Citizen participation Soziale Bewegung SUBJECT Kingston (Ont.) -- Politics and government Kingston (Ont.) -- Social conditions Subject Ontario -- Kingston Kingston Ontario Kingston (Ont.) Form Electronic book ISBN 9780773561267 0773561269 1282850865 9781282850866 9786612850868 6612850868

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