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John Sewell

JOHN SEWELL served as an alderman on Toronto City Council during the 1970s and was mayor of Toronto from 1978 to 1980. He chaired the Metro Toronto Housing Authority from 1986 to 1988 and the Commission on Planning and Development Reform in Ontario from 1991 to 1993. Sewell wrote an urban affairs column for The Globe and Mail from 1984 to 1986, currently writes for Now, a Toronto weekly, and is the author of Up Against City Hall, Police: Urban Policing in Canada, and the recently published The Shape of the City: Toronto Struggles with Modern Planning.

Books by John Sewell

Crisis in Canada's Policing

Why change is so hard, and how we can get real reform in our police forces

by (author) John Sewell
with Christopher J. Williams

How We Changed Toronto

The inside story of twelve creative, tumultuous years in civic life, 1969-1980

by (author) John Sewell

Police in Canada

The Real Story

by (author) John Sewell

Shape of the Suburbs

Understanding Toronto's Sprawl

by (author) John Sewell

Mackenzie

A Political Biography

by (author) John Sewell

Houses and Homes

Housing for Canadians

by (author) John Sewell

The Shape of the City

Toronto Struggles with Modern Planning

by (author) John Sewell
introduction by Jane Jacobs

Police

Urban Policing in Canada

by (author) John Sewell

Up Against City Hall

by (author) John Sewell