Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- Part One: A Poet Goes to City Hall -- Chapter One: Global Cities and Horse and Buggy Nations -- Chapter Two: Neighborhoods to Love -- Chapter Three: The Barbell Society and Just-in-Time Delivery -- Chapter Four: From Mont Tremblant to Ski Tremblant -- Chapter Five: Along Bayswater Street -- Chapter Six: Urban Villages -- Chapter Seven: It ain't Planning. It's Politics -- Chapter Eight: Citizenship versus Faithship -- Part Two: The Idea of Progress and Why We Got it Wrong -- Chapter Nine: The Mayor of Hiroshima and Intimations of God -- Chapter Ten: The Idea of Progress and the First Nations -- Chapter Eleven: Biological and Social Phase Transitions -- Chapter Twelve: Cod, Government and the Transpiration Cycle -- Chapter Thirteen: Care of the Soul/Care of the City/Care for the Planet -- Chapter Fourteen: 1984-2004: Poets and Visions -- Chapter Fifteen: Cape Breton Beaches and the Gulf of Mexico -- Part Three: Trying to Create a New Order of Things -- Chapter Sixteen: The Rise of Cities and Decline of the Planet -- Chapter Seventeen: 689 Spadina and Coming of Age in Toronto -- Chapter Eighteen: The 1960s: A global paradigm shift that never happened -- Chapter Nineteen: The World Social Forum II and -- Chapter Twenty: The World Social Forum III and -- Chapter Twenty-One: Saving the World with Stephen Lewis? -- Chapter Twenty-Two: The Bush Bubble Comes to Ottawa -- Chapter Twenty-Three: Jean de La Fontaine -- Chapter Twenty-Four: Cities, Climate Change and Politics as Usual -- Epilogue -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.