Some Great Idea - Good Neighbourhoods, Crazy Politics and the Invention of Toronto (Paperback)

Since 2010 Toronto's headlines have been consumed by the outrageous personal foibles and government-slashing, anti-urbanist policies of Mayor Rob Ford. But the heated debate at City Hall has obscured a bigger, decade-long narrative of Toronto's ascending as a mature global city. It raises questions: What role does a mayor play in a city's temperament and self-confidence? Can a terrible mayor make a city better by forcing its citizens to engage? What place is there in our new decentralized, global, open-source world for an autocrat?

Edward Keenan serves as senior editor and lead columnist at "The Grid" magazine in Toronto, Ontario. An eight-time finalist at the National Magazine Awards, he has written for and edited at "Eye Weekly," "Spacing" magazine, and "The Walrus."