Contents, Volume 9 #4

September/October 1991

Dossier

Reclaiming the City

Can communities of
choice be created in
an anonymous wasteland?

Leader
Finding neighbours in a lonely landscape. Mary Rose Donnelly (p.2)

Cities, Jobs and Community Values
Employment and community are the fundamental issues around which other urban issues revolve. Ted Munz SJ (p.5)

Parkdale: Nevertheless, It Moves
Community happens in a funky, appalling and endearing Toronto neighbourhood. Lauretta Santarossa (p.8)

The Growth of Urban Canada (p.10)

Harbours, Canals and Railways. Frederick Armstrong

Industrial and Corporate Cities. John Taylor

Developers
They put up awful shopping malls and sprawling subdivisions, but we need them. David Lewis Stein (p.16)

Signs and Symbols of Culture
The eighteenth-century Jesuit Reductions of Paraguay are a useful model for today's urban planners. Terry Kruger SJ (p.19)

East to Western Sea (p.20)

St. John's. Paul O'Neill

Halifax. J.A. Wainwright

Quebec City. Malcolm Reid

Toronto. Lamxay Mekh Sazanh

Mississauga. Rae Murphy

Winnipeg. Gail Burns

Yellowknife. Doug Holmes

Vancouver. Tom Sandborn

St. Philip Neri
The founder of the Oratorians was a charming, outrageous saint of the city. Mary Rose Donnelly (p.30)

A Self-Help Plan for Bombay
Inovlving slum-dwellers in solving Bombay's housing crisis can help create a living community. Rudolf C. Heredia SJ (p.31)

Mexico City. Rudy López

Tokyo. Jean Hoff

Art

Light in the "Great Darkness"
Montreal's urban painters of the 1930s presaged social change in Quebec.
Eudice Garmaise (p.36)

Books

Between War and Peace in Central America
Edited by Liisa North.
Reviewed by Joe Gunn (p.40)

My Father's Business
By Michael W. Higgins and Douglas R. Letson.
Reviewed by Ron Rempel (p.42)

1759: The Battle for Canada
By Laurier LaPierre.
Reviewed by Christian Dufour (p.44)

Fool for Christ
By Allen Mills.
Beyond the Social Gospel
By Ben Smillie.
Reviewed by George Melnyk (p.47)

Features

Points
English music, two religions and historical pride. (p.4)

Letters
Military history and keeping Hemingway honest. (p.49)

Compass Cryptic
Blue movie, chaste feet, and coursing blood. (p.49)

Disputatio
The Irish were dealt an ace in 1916. Patrick MacFadden (p.50)

Testament
Living the image of God as a Trinity. Prudence Allen RSM (p.51)