Mariana Valverde

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Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs

Independent experts analyze often-controversial schemes from Nunavut to Montreal to Toronto’s failed Sidewalk Labs waterfront scheme

 "Smart cities" use surveillance, big data processing and interactive technologies to reshape urban life. Transit riders can see the bus coming on a map on their phones. Cities can … ; 200 View
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Smart Cities in Canada

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 The introduction provides a general definition of what constitutes a “Smart City” as well as exploring what prompted the authors of this title to write about smart cities in Canada. ; 14 $1.40 Add
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Smart Cities as a Civic Leaders’ Survivor Game

The Lure of Innovation in a Competitive World

From: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs

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 Chapter 1 explores what leads municipal governments to persue smart city projects, whether they are seen as a quick and easy fix to deeper underlying infrastructure and urban planning issues, and … 15 $1.50 Add
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Policing The Lord’s Day

From: The Ward

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A Tale of Two – or Three – Cities

Gentrification and Community Consultations

From: Subdivided

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 The author examines the increasing polarization of Toronto’s neighbourhoods, both spatially and socially, and urges new urban planners to find ways to ensure people are not further … 10 $1.00 Add
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City of Love at the Castle on the Hill

From: Any Other Way

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 Maureen Fitzgerald recalls the events surrounding a mass gay wedding at Toronto’s Casa Loma during Rob Ford’s tenure as mayor. ; 5 $0.50 Add