Urban
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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![]() NEW! Cities MatterA Montrealer’s Ode to Jane Jacobs, Economist |
Why do cities exist? Can’t we find better ways of organizing life on earth? With the climate crisis and other environmental issues, are cities part of the problem? Or can they help solve … | Charles-Albert Ramsay | 152 | 2022 | View |
![]() Decolonize Hipsters |
Few urban critters are more reviled than the hipster. They are notoriously difficult to define, and yet we know one when we see one. No wonder: they were among the global cultural phenomena that … | Grégory Pierrot | 148 | 2021 | View |
![]() NEW! Dream StatesSmart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias |
Is the ‘smart city’ the utopia we’ve been waiting for? The promise of the so-called smart city has been at the forefront of urban planning and development since the early 2010s, … | John Lorinc | 290 | 2022 | View |
![]() NEW! Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies |
From the author of the best-selling Feminist City, this urbanite’s guide to gentrification knocks down the myths and exposes the forces behind the most urgent housing crisis of our time. … | Leslie Kern | 258 | 2022 | View |
![]() Storming the Old Boys’ CitadelTwo Pioneer Women Architects of Nineteenth Century North America |
“Women” and “architecture” were once mutually exclusive terms. In an 1891 address, Louise Blanchard Bethune declared, “it is hardly safe to assert” that a … | Carla Blank; Tania Martin | 234 | 2014 | View |
![]() SweetheartsThe Builders, the Mob and the Men |
Toronto was Boomtown in the 1960s. The city was growing quickly, gobbling up farmland for suburbs, pushing through expressways, knocking down neighbourhoods to make way for high-rise apartments. … | Catherine Wismer | 272 | 2014 | View |
![]() The WardThe Life and Loss of Toronto's First Immigrant Neighbourhood |
- | Michael ed. McClelland | 321 | 2015 | View |
![]() The Ward UncoveredThe Archaeology of Everyday Life |
In early 2015, a team of archaeologists began digging test trenches on a non-descript parking lot next to Toronto City Hall — a site designated to become a major new court house. What they … | Holly Martelle; John Lorinc; Michael McClelland; Tatum Taylor | 305 | 2018 | View |
![]() Thirty Years’ WarThe Failed Public/Private Partnership that Spurred the Creation of the Toronto Transit Commission, 1891-1921 |
Between 1891 and 1921, the Toronto Railway Company operated Toronto’s streetcars under a franchise granted by the City. The arrangement brought the City a modern electric streetcar system, … | C. Ian Kyer | 257 | 2015 | View |
![]() NEW! Vancouver ViceCrime and Spectacle in the City's West End |
The late 1970s and early 1980s were a volatile period in the history of Vancouver, where broad social and cultural changes were afoot. This was perhaps most clearly evident in the West End, the … | Aaron Chapman | 256 | 2021 | View |
From ![]() NEW! 1. Gentrification is . . . |
In Chapter 1, author Leslie Kern, examines the history of gentrification, how it became one of the focuses of her career as a feminist geographer, and an overview of the book’s chapters. … | Leslie Kern | 17 | 2022 | $1.70 Add |
From ![]() Editor’s PrefaceFrom: Decolonize Hipsters |
In the Preface, series editor Bhakti Shringarpure explains the series Decolonize That!: Handbooks for the Revolutionary Overthrow of Embedded Colonial Ideas and why hipsters would be the first … | Bhakti Shringarpure | 8 | 2021 | $0.80 Add |
From ![]() ForewardFrom: Sweethearts |
Explains the process that led to the mafia finding a way into the housing industry. Also points to the fact that the book is an ethnic history where Jews and Italians sought to break the … | Catherine Wismer | 7 | 2014 | $0.70 Add |
From ![]() Introduction |
The introduction provides a brief history of architecture in the United States and Canada, the evolution of the laws, regulations, and standards that shaped modern architecture. It then provides … | Carla Blank; Tania Martin | 22 | 2014 | $2.20 Add |
From ![]() NEW! IntroductionFrom: Dream States |
The introduction looks towards the future of the post-pandemic city. | John Lorinc | 13 | 2022 | $1.30 Add |
From ![]() NEW! IntroductionFrom: Cities Matter |
- | Charles-Albert Ramsay | 6 | 2022 | $0.60 Add |