Geography
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From  The "Creative Class" Creates a Global Urban ClashFrom: Shift Change |
In this chapter, the author examines the relationship between Hamilton and Toronto, and how these two once-divided cities are now closely intertwined. The chapter also explores gentrification in … | Stephen Dale | 53 | 2021 | $5.30 Add |
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From  NEW! 4. Gentrification is about Money |
Chapter 4 focuses on the role of gentrification in the political economy of urban centres and how capital is tied to its continuation. Topics discussed include the example of Little … | Leslie Kern | 24 | 2022 | $2.40 Add |
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From A Blue-Collar Legacy – for Better and for WorseFrom: Shift Change |
This chapter examines the dual nature of Hamilton, and poses key questions about the city. Can history be the basis for a roadmap forward? Are there unique aspects of Hamilton’s past that … | Stephen Dale | 49 | 2021 | $4.90 Add |
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From  NEW! Chapter 2Rouge Park |
Naturalist Jason Ramsay-Brown introduces Rouge National Urban Park, one of Toronto’s largest natural areas, which dominates some 13 per cent of the Rouge River watershed. He describes how … | Jason Ramsay-Brown | 9 | 2020 | $0.90 Add |
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From  City of FriendsFrom: Feminist City |
Kern highlights the importance of female friendship and how these relationships shape the way women engage with city life. | Leslie Kern | 35 | 2019 | $3.50 Add |
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From  Learning to Swim, 1942–45 21From: A Halifax Boyhood |
Recounts learning to swim 1942-45 | Malcolm MacLeod; William D. Naftel | 3 | 2014 | $0.30 Add |
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From  Memories of AfricvilleUrban Renewal, Reparations, and the Africadian Diaspora From: Black Geographies |
The field of historic preservation and conservation in the Americas is ill equipped to deal with the complex history of forced removal. Community-based demands placed on restorative justice … | Angel David Nieves | 15 | 2007 | $1.50 Add |
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From  Neighbourhoods in RevoltFrom: How We Changed Toronto |
community reactions to development proposals in 1972 | John Sewell | 27 | 2015 | $2.70 Add |
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From  PELLATT THE PROMOTERFrom: Casa Loma |
1880 – 1910. Looks at Pellatt as a finance capitalist, electric power for the people and his road from prosperity to wealth | Bill Freeman; Vincenzo Pietropaolo | 7 | 2016 | $0.70 Add |
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From  Rethinking Waste |
Mapping Racial Geographies of Violence on the Colonial Landscape | Ingrid R.G. Waldron | 13 | 2018 | $1.30 Add |
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From  SmellsFrom: South End Boy |
1930s and 1940s Halifax. Smells of the city/time | Jim Bennet | 6 | 2015 | $0.60 Add |
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From  Today We’re NorthernersStuart Hodgson and the Birth of the Modern Arctic From: Umingmak |
Readings in Part One of this title entitled "A Leader in the Making" discuss Stuart Hodgson’s political background. The section discusses his appointment as Commissioner of the … | Jake Ootes | 15 | 2020 | $1.50 Add |
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From  Wasauksing-Vancouver-TorontoMy Path Home From: Subdivided |
The author describes the struggle in her youth coming to terms with her First Nations identity. | Rebeka Tabobondung | 10 | 2016 | $1.00 Add |
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From “Freedom Is a Secret”The Future Usability of the Underground From: Black Geographies |
This chapter explores the Underground Railroad as it is presented in Harriet’s Daughter and consider the ways in which Marlene Nourbese Philip imagines “the political currents of … | Katherine McKittrick | 18 | 2007 | $1.80 Add |
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From NEW! 5. Gentrification is about Class |
Chapter 5 focuses on the sexual politics and gendered elements of gentrification. Topics discussed include housing precarity, sexual harassment and violence from landlords, women with children … | Leslie Kern | 39 | 2022 | $3.90 Add |
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From A Reform City CouncilFrom: How We Changed Toronto |
the 1972 election brought new blood to the city council and Sewell discusses how Larger decision-making bodies often hamper debate, but our council was of a manageable size. The openness and the … | John Sewell | 26 | 2015 | $2.60 Add |
