Urban Issues
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 Conflict Is Not AbuseOverstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair |
From intimate relationships to global politics, Sarah Schulman observes a continuum: that inflated accusations of harm are used to avoid accountability. Illuminating the difference between … | Sarah Schulman | 304 | 2016 | View |
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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  NEW! Desire Lines in the SandFrom: Messy Cities |
Wesley Lincoln Reibeling explains how desire lines symbolize the spaces that queer people have carved for themselves outside conventional planning norms in society, and uses Hanlan’s Point on … | Dylan Reid | 9 | 2025 | $0.90 Add |
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From NEW! Dixie RoadFrom: Messy Cities |
Fadi Masoud details how suburbs, like the ones on the edges of Toronto, are crucial entry points for immigrants, in spite of these spaces facing social and infrastructural challenges. | Dylan Reid | 6 | 2025 | $0.60 Add |
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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, … | 290 | View | ||
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From NEW! Engineering the CityThe Technology of Cities From: Dream States |
The Technology of Cities: Part 2 explores the physical building and engineering of cities. Topics discussed include construction, city-building technology, building blocks, hygiene, bridges, … | John Lorinc | 9 | 2022 | $0.90 Add |
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From NEW! Everything is Everything … But the Details MatterFrom: Messy Cities |
Authors Alexandra Lambropoulous and Sami Ferwati argue that urban developments which ignore the local context of culture and socio-political dynamics will lead to failed urban spaces that lack … | Dylan Reid | 7 | 2025 | $0.70 Add |
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From  Surviving and Keeping Safe |
Benjamin Roebuck; Sue-Ann MacDonald | 26 | 2018 | $2.60 Add | |
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From  Families MatterThe Catch-22 of Poverty From: Persistent Poverty |
Brice Balmer; Jamie Swift; Mira Dineen | 9 | 2010 | $0.90 Add | |
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From  NEW! Fashion and Design in the Age of Digital SurveillanceFrom: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs |
Chapter 12 explores the ways in which the public resists the implementation of smart city technologies | Car Martin | 13 | 2020 | $1.30 Add |
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From Food InsecurityA Source of Suffering and Ill Health From: Persistent Poverty |
Elaine Power | 9 | 2010 | $0.90 Add | |
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From NEW! Function Creep and SurveillanceThe Dream of the Smart City From: Dream States |
The Dream of the Smart City: Part 7 explores the role of surveillance in smart cities. Topics discussed include CityIQ, the use of cameras, widespread surveillance, ‘function … | John Lorinc | 13 | 2022 | $1.30 Add |
 Good Places to LivePovery and Public Housing in Canada |
Public housing projects are stigmatized and stereotyped as bad places to live, as havens of poverty, illegal activity and violence. In many cities they are being bulldozed, ostensibly for these … | Jim Silver | 156 | 2011 | View |
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From Good Places to LiveFrom: Good Places to Live |
Jim Silver | 7 | 2011 | $0.70 Add | |
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From NEW! Guelph and Wellington County’s Urban-Rural Smart City ProjectOur Food Future From: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs |
Chapter 8 explores Guelph’s smart cities project, which seeks to use technology to bridge the urban rural divide and develop a sustainable network of food production and consumption | Ellie Ruggles | 12 | 2020 | $1.20 Add |
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From Housing Strategy on the BrinkThe Time Has Come From: Persistent Poverty |
Michael Shapcott | 10 | 2010 | $1.00 Add |
