Christopher Hume: 3 books
Carsick
Reclaiming Our Cities from the Automobile
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Increasingly, young people attach more cachet to their smartphone than their car -if they have one at all. And developers are finding a market for parking-free condominiums. As the Toronto Star's award-winning urban affairs columnist and architecture critic Christopher Hume writes in his new Star Dispatches...
On the Waterfront
The Unlikely Story of How a Small Public Agency with Few Powers and Precarious Funding Managed To Change a City
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
For more than 220 years since the early days of York, in fact the city's leaders and citizens have dreamed, planned and argued about the waterfront. For a long time, the results weren't pretty: from industrial sprawl and the Gardiner Expressway to the more recent "condo curtain," each generation seemed...
Pynchon's Against the Day
A Corrupted Pilgrim's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
Thomas Pynchon's longest novel to date, Against the Day (2006), excited diverse and energetic opinions when it appeared on bookstore shelves nine years after the critically acclaimed Mason & Dixon. Its wide-ranging plot covers nearly three decades-from the 1893 World's Fair to the years just after...