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Municipal Election Reading List

Whether you are running for mayor, voting for mayor, or just care about the place that you live, here are the books to spark the ideas for a brighter future.

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  • What role does ideology play in municipal elections across Canada? How do municipal politicians connect with voters in political arenas that are often free from Provincial and Federal party allegiances? Using data from original surveys of municipal…
    Book, 2024Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press, 2024, ©2024. — 320. 50971 LUC
  • Combining theory and extensive survey data compiled by the Canadian Municipal Election Study (CMES), Big City Elections provides a data-driven overview of voting behaviour in eight major Canadian municipal elections in 2017 and 2018. These eight…
    Book, 2021Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2021, ©2021. — 324. 081 BIG
  • The Effective Citizen

    How to Make Politicians Work for You

    Steele, Graham,
    If you aren't sure how governments work or what you can do to make sure your government works, start right here. Great book for aspiring politicians too!
    Book, 2017Halifax, Nova Scotia : Nimbus Publishing, 2017, ©2017. — 323. 0420971 STE
  • A Quiet Evolution

    the Emergence of Indigenous-local Intergovernmental Partnerships in Canada

    Alcantara, Christopher, 1978-
    Regardless of who gets your vote, we can all vote for productive, meaningful partnerships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous leadership, everywhere.
    Book, 2016Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press, 2016, ©2016. — 970. 5 ALC
  • Case Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia

    Urban Design Strategies for Urgent Challenges

    Williamson, June,
    This glorious documentation of city planning success sets up the revitalization framework for obsolete infrastructure, from which Calgary has quite a lot to choose!
    Book, 2021Hoboken : Wiley, 2021, ©2021. — 307. 74097 WIL
  • Growth

    From Microorganisms to Megacities

    Smil, Vaclav,
    Deep investigation into a subject Calgary is very familiar with - growth! To understand how a city can thrive and sustain, let's take a look into the science of how and why life gathers and expands.
    Book, 2019Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, 2019. — 909. 82 SMI
  • Great Cities

    the Stories Behind the World's Most Fascinating Places

    All this sociological governance talk can get a bit drab. Take a break with the latest deluxe armchair travel eye candy from DK Publishers. Great examples of why the world needs strong leaders so that cities can story on.
    Book, 2021New York : DK Publishing, 2021, ©2021. — 307. 76 GRE
  • Dream Cities

    Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World

    Graham, Wade,
    Another pleasant diversion into the cultural history of storied cities. This one illuminates how wild, impossible designs found their way into concrete reality.
    Book, 2016New York, New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2016, ©2016. — 711. 409 GRA
  • Solved

    How the World's Great Cities Are Fixing the Climate Crisis

    Miller, David, 1958-
    An inspirational and hopeful guide to the actions that individual cities can take to divert the whole world from climate catastrophe.
    Book, 2020Toronto : Aevo UTP, 2020, ©2020. — 307. 76 MIL
  • How We Show Up

    Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community

    Birdsong, Mia,
    Our departing mayor was a champion of community connectedness, and we look forward to Calgary's new leader having the same knack for neighbourly greatness.
    Book, 2020New York : Hachette Go, an imprint of Hachette Books, 2020, ©2020. — 307 BIR
  • Imagine a world where thoughtful citizens actually trusted the public representation of their elected officials... Not so farfetched with the practical ideas from this renowned political scientist. Trusting our mayoral candidates have this one on…
    Unknown, 2017Cambridge, Cambridgeshire : Polity, 2017, ©2017. — 320. 019 KET
  • This place we call home is many different things to every different person. Here is a mash-up view through the lens of Calgary's literary history.
    Book, 2018Victoria, British Columbia : RMB, 2018, ©2018. — 971. 2338 CAL