Urban Issues
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From  NEW! A Lifeline at the DoorFrom: Messy Cities |
Dr. Eileen de Villa writes about supervised consumption sites, their importance to the physical health, mental wellbeing, and community of their clients, as well as their perceived messiness by others. | Dylan Reid | 5 | 2025 | $0.50 Add |
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From  A Pebble in the ShoeFrom: Persistent Poverty |
Brice Balmer; Jamie Swift; Mira Dineen | 8 | 2010 | $0.80 Add | |
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From  A Reparative ManifestoFrom: Conflict Is Not Abuse |
A brief introduction about events in recent history and nature of Abuse. The author talks about Normative Conflict and Resistance, and how reasonable stances of difference can be misrepresented … | Sarah Schulman | 22 | 2016 | $0.44 Add |
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From Abandoning the PersonalThe State and the Production of Abuse From: Conflict Is Not Abuse |
The state, learning from the work of anti-violence advocate Catherine Hodes to understand the difference between Conflict and Abuse in relationship to social service providers. | Sarah Schulman | 29 | 2016 | $0.58 Add |
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From  NEW! An Activist Perspective on the Sidewalk ProjectFrom: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs |
Chapter 5 explores the impact of Toronto’s Sidewalk Labs project from the perspective of Labour organization and activism. | Nick de Carlo | 11 | 2020 | $1.10 Add |
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From NEW! An Argument Worth HavingFrom: Messy Cities |
Chiyi Tam explains how conflict within communities has the capacity to net positive and democratic results, using her role in the Toronto Chinatown Land Trust as a key example. | Dylan Reid | 8 | 2025 | $0.80 Add |
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From NEW! Another Fine Mess About RegionalismFrom: Messy Cities |
Sabine Matheson writes about her experience as an advisor to the government that debated the amalgamation of Toronto in the late 1990’s. | Dylan Reid | 5 | 2025 | $0.50 Add |
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From “As Sharp As You Could Cut Them”From: Persistent Poverty |
Brice Balmer; Jamie Swift; Mira Dineen | 10 | 2010 | $1.00 Add | |
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From Back to the Future?The Choice Is Ours From: Persistent Poverty |
Armine Yalnizyan; Jamie Swift | 10 | 2010 | $1.00 Add | |
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From  “Because It’s Not About Creating New Housing!”Contradictions and Limitations in the Development of Regent Park From: Good Places to Live |
Jim Silver | 23 | 2011 | $2.30 Add | |
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From  Introduction |
Benjamin Roebuck; Sue-Ann MacDonald | 28 | 2018 | $2.80 Add | |
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From Building Good Places to LiveFrom: Good Places to Live |
Jim Silver | 5 | 2011 | $0.50 Add | |
 Caught in the Eye of the Storm: Urban Revitalization in Toronto’s Lawrence Heights |
The global housing crisis is reshaping everything, everywhere. The city of Toronto has come to be recognized worldwide as an iconic epicenter of unaffordability, a place where prices soar and … | John Careless | 192 | 2024 | View |
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From  NEW! Cities, Communications Technology, and the Feedback DilemmasThe Technology of Cities From: Dream States |
The Technology of Cities: Part 5 explores the dilemma of cities during the Cold War. Topics discussed include nuclear war, de-urbanization, Cold War anxieties, commercialization, telephones, and more. | John Lorinc | 12 | 2022 | $1.20 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  NEW! Community Control of Public Housing |
In this chapter, the authors trace the 1970 to 1974 rent strike at Stella Wright Homes in Newark, New Jersey, where leaders like Toby Henry and Rev. Thomas Comerford won tenant management of … | Ari McCaskill; Peter Blackmer | 10 | 2025 | $1.00 Add |
