Messy Cities: The Case for Navigating Urban Disorder

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300 pages. 8.50x5.50x1.00 inches. In Stock. N° de ref. del artículo 1552455033

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Acerca de los autores: Zahra Ebrahim is an urbanist, educator, and strategist. Her award-winning work focuses on building bridges between institutions and their public, working with communities to co-design towards better social outcomes and leading some of Canada’s most ambitious participatory infrastructure and policy programs. She currently co-leads Monumental, a national organization focused on projects that advance fair, just, and culturally competent citybuilding, with previous experience leading organizations across multiple sectors. She is currently an Adjunct Professor at the Daniels School of Architecture and Urbanist-in-Residence at the University of Toronto’s School of Cities. She currently lives in Toronto with her partner, and their whippet, Zada.

John Lorinc is a Toronto-based journalist and editor. He writes about cities, climate, and cleantech for a range of publications, including the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Corporate Knights and Spacing, where he is senior editor. John is also the Toronto non-fiction editor for Coach House Books, and has edited or co-edited several uTOpia anthologies, including The Ward, Any Other Way, and House Divided. He is the author of five books, including Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias, which won the 2023 Writer's Trust Balsillie Prize for Public Policy. John's latest book is a family memoir entitled No Jews Live Here (Coach House Books, 2024).

Dylan Reid is a co-founder and now the executive editor of Spacing magazine, an award-winning print quarterly about Toronto urbanism and public space that recently celebrated its 20th anniversary. He is the author of the Toronto Public Etiquette Guide and co-editor of other books about Toronto. He was co-chair of the city government’s Toronto Pedestrian Committee and later co-founder of the advocacy group Walk Toronto. He is also a fellow at the Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies at the University of Toronto, and author of several scholarly articles about the history of cities in Renaissance France.