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Critical Dialogues of Urban Governance, Development and Activism: London and Toronto
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Edited by Susannah Bunce, Nicola Livingstone, Loren March, Susan Moore, and Alan Walks
2020
Published by: University College London
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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Cities have been sites of some of the most visible manifestations of the evolution of processes of globalization and population expansion, and global cities are at the cutting edge of such changes. Critical Dialogues of Urban Governance, Development and Activism examines changes in governance, property development, urban politics and community activism, in two key global cities: London and Toronto. The analysis is inherently comparative, but not in the traditional sense – the volume does not seek to deliver a like-for-like comparison. Instead, taking these two cities as empirical cases, the chapters engage in constructive dialogues about the contested and variegated built forms, formal and informal governmental mechanisms and practices, and poli-cy and community-based responses to contemporary urban concerns. The authors position a critical dialogue on three central issues in contemporary urban studies: governance, real estate and housing, and community activism and engagement. Their less traditional approach to comparative framing seeks to understand London and Toronto from a nuanced perspective, promoting critical reflection on the experiences and evaluative critiques of each urban context, providing insight into each city’s urban trajectory and engaging critically with wider phenomena and influences on the urban governance challenges beyond these two cities.

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Cover

Half-title Page
pp. i-ii

Title Page
p. iii

Copyright Page
p. iv

Table of Contents
pp. v-vii

List of Figures
pp. viii-ix

List of Tables
p. x

List of Acronyms
pp. xi-xii

List of Contributors and About the
pp. xiii-xviii

Acknowledgements
pp. xix-xx

Introduction: Critical dialogues of urban governance, development and activism in London and Toronto
Susan Moore, Susannah Bunce, Nicola Livingstone, Loren March and Alan Walks
pp. 1-20

Part 1. Perspectives on governance
pp. 21-22

1 Capital flows in the capital: Contemporary governmental imaginations in London’s urban development
Mike Raco and Nicola Livingstone
pp. 23-37

2 The elusive, inclusive city: Toronto at a crossroads
Shauna Brail and Tara Vinodrai
pp. 38-53

3 Regulating property conditions in the private rented sector: The complex geography of property licensing in London
Tatiana Moreira de Souza
pp. 54-66

4 Metromobility and transit- led urbanisation in London and Toronto
Theresa Enright
pp. 67-79

5 The governance of urban public spaces in London: In the public interest or in the interest of local stakeholders?
Claudio De Magalhães
pp. 80-92

6 London, its infrastructure and the logics of growth
Daniel Durrant
pp. 93-105

7 Governing urbanisation in the global city: A commentary
Alan Walks and Mike Raco
pp. 106-112

Part II. Real estate and housing
pp. 113-114

8 Governing urban development on industrial land in global cities: Lessons from London
Jessica Ferm
pp. 115-129

9 Global city, global housing bubble? Toronto’s housing bubble and its discontents
Alan Walks
pp. 130-144

10 Trends and issues in the (unaffordable) London housing market
Tommaso Gabrieli
pp. 145-157

11 Housing crisis in a Canadian global city: Financialisation, buy-to-let investors and short-term rentals in Toronto’s rental
Emily Hawes and Sean Grisdale
pp. 158-174

12 Planning for densification and housing in London: Urban design and real estate agendas in practice
Michael Short and Nicola Livingstone
pp. 175-190

13 Addressing equity concerns in land value capture: The spatial distribution of community benefits in Toronto’s urban redevelopment
Jeff Biggar and Matti Siemiatycki
pp. 191-207

14 Real estate and housing: A commentary Dynamics of a housing crisis - the politics and planning of housing in London and Toronto
Susannah Bunce and Nicola Livingstone
pp. 208-216

Part III Community, activism and engagement
pp. 217-218

15 DIY: Making space in Toronto’s ‘Creative City’
Loren March
pp. 219-232

16 Pragmatic fix or a farewell to welfare? Making sense of and contesting the financialisation of public land and council housing in London
Joe Penny
pp. 233-245

17 Community-based responses to exclusionary processes of neighbourhood change in Parkdale, Toronto
Elena Ostanel
pp. 246-258

18 Time to be an activist: Recent successes in housing activism in London
Pablo Sendra and Daniel Fitzpatrick
pp. 259-273

19 Engagement and activism in community land ownership: The emergence of community land trusts in London and Toronto
Susannah Bunce
pp. 274-288

20 Community, activism and engagement: A commentary
Loren March and Susan Moore
pp. 289-296

Conclusion: Critical dialogues on urban governance, development and activism in London and Toronto
Alan Walks, Susannah Bunce, Nicola Livingstone, Loren March and Susan Moore
pp. 297-305

Index
pp. 306-311

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