{"product_id":"saving-the-city-daniel-sanger-9781550655803","title":"Saving the City: The Challenge of Transforming a Modern Metropolis","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe rise to power of one of Canada's most progressive municipal movements in recent memory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhen it was dreamed up in the early 2000s by a transportation bureaucrat with a quixotic dream of bringing tramways back to the streets of Montreal, few expected Projet Montr饌l to go anywhere. But a decade and a half later, the party was a grassroots powerhouse with an ambitious agenda that had taken power at city hall--after dumping its founder, barely surviving a divisive leadership campaign and earning the ire of motorists across Quebec.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProjet Montr饌l aspired to transform Montreal into a green, human-scale city with few, if any equal in North America. Equal parts reportage, oral history and memoir, \u003ci\u003eSaving the City\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles what the party did right, where it failed, and where it's headed. Written from the perspective of someone who worked for Projet Montr饌l's administration for almost a decade, \u003cb\u003eDaniel Sanger\u003c\/b\u003e's book draws on dozens of interviews with other actors in the party and on the municipal scene, past and present.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA highly readable history of Montreal municipal politics over the past 30 years, \u003ci\u003eSaving the City\u003c\/i\u003e will also discuss issues of interest to city-dwellers across Canada. Are political parties at the municipal level a good thing? Is Montreal's borough system a model for other big cities? What are the best ways to control urban car use? What is the optimum width for a sidewalk? The best kind of street tree? And why free parking is a terrible idea.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Daniel Sanger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1550655809\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781550655803\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vehicule Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.43h x 5.51w x 1.18d","brand":"Daniel Sanger","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43988565491967,"sku":"9781550655803","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d9765cb7-d523-4a4d-ab08-772e98d13e8a.jpg?v=1683295157","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/saving-the-city-daniel-sanger-9781550655803","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}