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Urban Meltdown: Cities, Climate Change and Politics as Usual, by Clive Doucet

‘When Clive Doucet won a seat on Ottawa’s city council in 1997, he was a poet with no experience as an elected official. In Urban Meltdown: Cities, Climate Change and Politics as Usual, he brings to bear on the problem of global city development a sharp outsider’s perspective and the gift for expression that endeared him to voters.’ Read the review at the Walrus.

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