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Mississauga is Canada's sixth largest city and its largest suburban municipality. Toronto's upstart western neighbour, with its multicultural population of more than 700,000, is a place not only of endless subdivisions and monotonous industrial parks, wide thoroughfares, and even wider expressways, but also of some distinctive older communities, notable lakefront and riverside parks, and occasionally bold architecture. Hazel McCallion, Mississauga's octogenarian mayor, is a national celebrity and a municipal icon. Head of the city council since 1978, she holds a position with limited formal authority but remains the virtually undisputed - and often feared - leader of this sprawling city. The first full-length study of McCallion's politics and the development of Mississauga, Her Worship examines the mayor's shrewd pragmatism and calculated populism. Tom Urbaniak argues that McCallion's executive skills and dynamic personality only partially explain the mayor's dominant and pre-emptive political position. He points also to key historical and geographical factors that contributed to a kind of civic stability - but also to stagnation and missed opportunities - in a place that had once been fraught with political rivalry and heated conflicts over future growth. A fascinating account both of a remarkable public figure and of an area that is emblematic of edge city development in North America, Her Worship is a fresh look at municipal governance and politics in rapidly growing communities.Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Toronto Press
ISBN-139780802096029
eBay Product ID (ePID)88965378
Product Key Features
Number of Pages336 Pages
Publication NameHer Worship: Hazel Mccallion and the Development of Mississauga
LanguageEnglish
SubjectHistory
Publication Year2009
TypeTextbook
AuthorTom Urbaniak
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height228 mm
Item Weight540 g
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Country/Region of ManufactureCanada
Title_AuthorTom Urbaniak