“I know I'm going to enjoy reading it and learning from it. Every now and then I've been dipping into it unsystematically, and find it hard to put down. I'm also, of course, very grateful for the wonderful hit-the-spotquote I lifted from you and used in Dark Age Ahead.”

Letter, dated May 2005, from the late Jane Jacobs, urban activist, author of Death and Life of Great American Cities.

“ Clive Doucet has been at the center of this issue as an activist, an elected official, and an author. Urban Meltdown is both an astute diagnosis of the problem and a visionary agenda for correcting things.”

James Howard Kunstler, author of The Long Emergency and The Geography of Nowhere.

“Global Warming is the issue of our time. Perhaps of all time. Clive Doucet has been in the front line of the struggle to understand the consequences of global warming and the obligation of all of us – including city governments – to act. I recommend him to you.”

Mayor David Miller, City of Toronto.

Poetic, insightful, and filled with hope, this book will open your mind, change your life, and liberate your soul. Urban Meltdown offers a new and valuable perspective on the world's most important issue – climate change – from an informed, practical, and passionate voice, Clive Doucet."

Douglas E Morris, Author of It's a Sprawl World After All.

“ Why are our cities so miserably prepared for the impending post-petroleum future, and what
can we do about it? If you want answers informed by experience, look no further. Clive Doucet is the kind of local politician the world desperately needs an abundance of: he's realistic, forthright, courageous, aware – and a damned good writer to boot.”

Richard Heinberg, Research Fellow, Post Carbon Institute. Author of The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies