City Politics, Canada, James Lightbody, Peterborough:
Broadview Press, 2006, pp. 576.
Scholarly research on Canadian urban politics has never been
extensive, and the few who teach in the field have had to make do with a
limited range of textbooks, mostly focused on the institutions of local
government. Those wanting to extend their coverage to deal with such
issues as the importance of globalization, social movements, race and
ethnicity, social inequality, urban political culture, regional
governance, the media, and federal policy, have been forced to rely on an
assemblage of diverse materials. As well, the politics of, and role played
by, the suburbs is often marginal to most texts, focused as they are on
the politics of the largest central cities.