
Saving Toronto
10 City Builders Tell Us How
Dundurn Press
Will be published approx. on 18. June 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
200 pages
978-1-4597-5682-3 (ISBN)
Description
Once celebrated as the city that works, Toronto is a city on the brink.
Featuring: Ilana Altman, Zahra Ebrahim, Anne Golden, Tim Gray, Ken Greenberg, Franz Hartmann, Josh Matlow, Matti Siemiatycki, Enid Slack, Bianca Wylie.
Strained by urban sprawl, crumbling infrastructure, and chronic under-funding, Canada's largest city is coming apart at the seams. Its promise -- of livability, opportunity, and innovation -- is being undermined by years of inaction and political gridlock.
But all is not lost.
In Saving Toronto, ten leading city builders set out a bold, practical roadmap to turn things around. In their essays, they highlight the city's problems in governance, finances, housing, transport, environment, technology, infrastructure, social cohesion, and public space and offer coordinated responses.
This is a wake-up call -- Toronto's future can still be saved.
Featuring: Ilana Altman, Zahra Ebrahim, Anne Golden, Tim Gray, Ken Greenberg, Franz Hartmann, Josh Matlow, Matti Siemiatycki, Enid Slack, Bianca Wylie.
Strained by urban sprawl, crumbling infrastructure, and chronic under-funding, Canada's largest city is coming apart at the seams. Its promise -- of livability, opportunity, and innovation -- is being undermined by years of inaction and political gridlock.
But all is not lost.
In Saving Toronto, ten leading city builders set out a bold, practical roadmap to turn things around. In their essays, they highlight the city's problems in governance, finances, housing, transport, environment, technology, infrastructure, social cohesion, and public space and offer coordinated responses.
This is a wake-up call -- Toronto's future can still be saved.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Publishing group
The Dundurn Group
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
4 tables, 1 map, 1 figure, and 3 photos; notes at end of each chapter
Dimensions
Height: 227 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
342 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4597-5682-3 (9781459756823)
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04/2026
Dundurn Press
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Persons
Ken Greenberg, C.M., is an urban designer, writer, and former director of Urban Design and Architecture for the City of Toronto. A recipient of an honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Toronto, he is the author of Walking Home, Toronto Reborn, and Exploring Toronto.
Anne Golden, C.M. and O. Ont., is past president of the United Way of Greater Toronto and the Conference Board of Canada. She gained national recognition as a policy expert for her reports on homelessness, the future of Greater Toronto, and transit investment.
Anne Golden, C.M. and O. Ont., is past president of the United Way of Greater Toronto and the Conference Board of Canada. She gained national recognition as a policy expert for her reports on homelessness, the future of Greater Toronto, and transit investment.