Sunday September 22, 2013 at Queen's Park Circle, 11am - 6pm
Edward Keenan
Event Info: Vibrant Voices of Ontario Tent at 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Edward Keenan serves as senior editor and lead columnist at The Grid magazine in Toronto. An eight-time finalist at the National Magazine Awards, he was the top editor at Eye Weekly, is a contributing editor at Spacing magazine, and writes widely on politics, sports and culture.
Books
Some Great Idea: Good Neighbourhoods, Crazy Politics and the Invention of Toronto
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 ascendance as a mature global city. It raises questions: What role does a mayor play in a city’s temperament and self-confidence? Can an unpopular 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?
Coach House Books - $12.00 - Urban Studies
