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Since 2010, Toronto's headlines have been used by the outrageous personal foibles and government-slashing, anti-urbanist procedures of Mayor Rob Ford. But the heated debate at City Hall has obscured a bigger, decade-long narrative of Toronto's ascendance as a mature global city. Some Great Idea traces how post-amalgamation, and under three completely different mayors, Toronto managed to so quickly oscillate from one extreme to some other, and how the location might proceed from here. Some Great Idea includes behind-the-scenes tales from the Miller and Ford promotions, and explores recent turning details like the city's key service review and the mayor's conflict-of-interest trial. Through personal history, keen reportage and revelatory analysis, it shows how the fundamental concepts of diversity and democracy that contain made Toronto such a vibrant, energetic 21st-century city can produce an unlikely politician like Ford. And how those same concepts have vividly and regularly insisted that such politicians are just part of a more substantial, messier and much more productive metropolitan politics. That is a story about both Toronto's past and present, how the location has relentlessly and collaboratively reinvented itself. But it is also a story about Toronto's future, and what that future might signify for any global cities.
