{"product_id":"saving-the-city-the-challenge-of-transforming-a-modern-metropolis-paperback","title":"Saving the City: The Challenge of Transforming a Modern Metropolis - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDaniel Sanger\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe rise to power of one of Canada's most progressive municipal movements in recent memory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhen it was dreamed up in the early 2000s by a transportation bureaucrat with a quixotic dream of bringing tramways back to the streets of Montreal, few expected Projet Montréal to go anywhere. But a decade and a half later, the party was a grassroots powerhouse with an ambitious agenda that had taken power at city hall--after dumping its founder, barely surviving a divisive leadership campaign and earning the ire of motorists across Quebec.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProjet Montréal aspired to transform Montreal into a green, human-scale city with few, if any equal in North America. Equal parts reportage, oral history and memoir, \u003ci\u003eSaving the City\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles what the party did right, where it failed, and where it's headed. Written from the perspective of someone who worked for Projet Montréal's administration for almost a decade, \u003cb\u003eDaniel Sanger\u003c\/b\u003e's book draws on dozens of interviews with other actors in the party and on the municipal scene, past and present.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA highly readable history of Montreal municipal politics over the past 30 years, \u003ci\u003eSaving the City\u003c\/i\u003e will also discuss issues of interest to city-dwellers across Canada. Are political parties at the municipal level a good thing? Is Montreal's borough system a model for other big cities? What are the best ways to control urban car use? What is the optimum width for a sidewalk? The best kind of street tree? And why free parking is a terrible idea.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn award-winning journalist and writer based in Montreal, \u003cb\u003eDaniel Sanger\u003c\/b\u003e took a two-year hiatus to work with Projet Montréal in 2010. It ended up lasting nine years. A founding editor of the \u003ci\u003eMontreal Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e in 1985, he moved onto the \u003ci\u003eMontreal Gazette\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Canadian Press\u003c\/i\u003e, including a stint as a correspondent at Quebec's National Assembly. In the mid 1990s he quit newspaper journalism to work in magazines. He was the Quebec correspondent for \u003ci\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/i\u003e for more than a decade while contributing articles to many other magazines and newspapers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 300\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.18 x 8.43 x 5.51 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 01, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767292133664,"sku":"9781550655803","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/e5f7d5f4db869792d960edd2ef0e31fd.webp?v=1780308377","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/saving-the-city-the-challenge-of-transforming-a-modern-metropolis-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}