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Saving Toronto

10 City Builders Tell Us How

Available Apr 7th 2026

Paperback
$ 21.99

Description

Once celebrated as the city that works, Toronto is a city on the brink.

Featuring: Ilana Altman, Zahra Ebrahim, Anne Golden, Tim Gray, Ken Greenberg, Franz Hartmann, Josh Matlow, Matti Siemiatycki, Enid Slack, Bianca Wylie.

Strained by urban sprawl, crumbling infrastructure, and chronic under-funding, Canada's largest city is coming apart at the seams. Its promise — of livability, opportunity, and innovation — is being undermined by years of inaction and political gridlock.

But all is not lost.

In Saving Toronto, ten leading city builders set out a bold, practical roadmap to turn things around. In their essays, they highlight the city's problems in governance, finances, housing, transport, environment, technology, infrastructure, social cohesion, and public space and offer coordinated responses.

This is a wake-up call — Toronto's future can still be saved.

Contributors

Anne Golden

Anne Golden is past President of the United Way of Greater Toronto and of the Conference Board of Canada. She gained national recognition as a policy expert for her reports on the future of Greater Toronto (The Golden Report), homelessness, and transit investment. She is a member of the Order of Canada and the Order of Ontario, and has received the Couchiching Award for Public Policy Leadership as well as eight honorary doctorates.

Ken Greenberg

Ken Greenberg is an urban designer, teacher, writer, former Director of Urban Design and Architecture for the City of Toronto and Principal of Greenberg Consultants. He is the author of Walking Home: The Life and Lessons of a City Builder and Toronto Reborn; Design Successes and Challenges. He was selected as a Member of the Order of Canada in 2019 and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Toronto.

 

Book Details

ePub
April 2026
-
232 pp
9781459756809
ePub
April 2026
-
232 pp
9781459756816
Paperback
April 2026
6x9 in
232 pp
9781459756823