Urban
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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 |
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From NEW! City InstabilitiesSection 2: Jacobs’ Urban Economics From: Cities Matter |
Chapter 5 examines the weaknesses of cities. The chapter focuses on exploring the built-in instabilities of cities such as congestion, pollution, crime, labour reducing process innovations, … | Charles-Albert Ramsay | 7 | 2022 | $0.70 Add |
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From  NEW! City LightsThe Technology of Cities From: Dream States |
The Technology of Cities: Part 4 explores the history of lighting cities. Topics discussed include Billboards, gas lighting, electric lighting, darkness and crime, industrialization, public … | John Lorinc | 13 | 2022 | $1.30 Add |
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From  Coconuts in the Latrines!From: The Ward Uncovered |
Elizabeth Driver | 5 | 2018 | $0.50 Add | |
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From  NEW! Colonial Transformations |
From Toronto: The First 13,000 Years: An Illustrated History | Carl Benn | 27 | 2026 | $2.70 Add |
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From  NEW! ComprimisedFrom: Vancouver Vice |
In this chapter, Chapman described the end of the West End sex trade, and the consequences of this for Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. | Aaron Chapman | 8 | 2021 | $0.80 Add |
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From  Conclusion |
In the Conclusion, the authors reflect on the legacy of Mother Joseph and Louise Bethune work more than 100 years after their deaths. The chapter explores how these women were able to storm the … | Carla Blank; Tania Martin | 9 | 2014 | $0.90 Add |
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From NEW! ConclusionFrom: Cities Matter |
The conclusion reflects on COVID-19’s impact on cities, urban anxiety, healthy cities, and what kind of society we want to live in. | Charles-Albert Ramsay | 6 | 2022 | $0.60 Add |
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From  NEW! Concrete City |
From Militants, Mobsters and Mavericks: The Men Who Built Modern Toronto in the 1960s–70s | Gilberto Fernandes | 12 | 2026 | $1.20 Add |
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From  NEW! Conjay’s First Walk HomeFrom: Messy Cities |
Tura Cousins Wilson and Shane Laptiste explore Little Jamaica in Toronto’s historic Caribbean community, and trace its history from the 1960’s to its imagined future in 2035. | Dylan Reid | 7 | 2025 | $0.70 Add |
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From NEW! ConnectionsThe Technology of Cities From: Dream States |
The Technology of Cities: Part 1 explores how urban development intersects and is shaped by the larger political, social, and technological advancements happening around it. Topics discussed … | John Lorinc | 9 | 2022 | $0.90 Add |
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From Correspondent: Cecelia HolmesFrom: The Ward Uncovered |
Karolyn Smardz Frost | 7 | 2018 | $0.70 Add | |
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From  Crowded by Any MeasureFrom: The Ward |
John Lorinc | 1 | 2015 | $0.10 Add | |
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From  Crowded Streetcars, 1899–1903From: Thirty Years' War |
Account of operational disputes between the City and the Toronto Railway Company, specifically in relation to the issue of overcrowding of streetcars. | C. Ian Kyer | 15 | 2015 | $1.50 Add |
 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 |
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From Defiance and DivisionsThe Great Eaton's Strike From: The Ward |
Ruth A. Frager | 5 | 2015 | $0.50 Add |
