Urban Issues
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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 | |
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From NEW! How Technology is Reshaping the Post-Pandemic CityConclusion From: Dream States |
Conclusion: part 2 explores how technology can be used in reshaping the post-pandemic cities. | John Lorinc | 12 | 2022 | $1.20 Add |
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From NEW! Indigenous Exclusion and Access to the InternetThe Case of Nunavut From: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs |
Chapter 9 explores how digital technology is also a tool for social well being, giving people access to health, education, cultural expression and political participation. It explores this … | Alexandra Flynn | 18 | 2020 | $1.80 Add |
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From  NEW! Industrial Land’s Secret SauceFrom: Messy Cities |
Karen Chapple writes about the potential avenues for preserving existing messy but productive industrial spaces, while introducing innovation districts in cities around the world. | Dylan Reid | 9 | 2025 | $0.90 Add |
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From NEW! Innisfil and UberA Rural Municipality’s Misadventures in Smart Public Transit From: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs |
Chapter 10 explores smart city projects that make use of ridesharing and their pitfalls. | Ellie Ruggles | 11 | 2020 | $1.10 Add |
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From  Acknowledgements |
Benjamin Roebuck; Sue-Ann MacDonald | 2 | 2018 | $0.20 Add | |
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From NEW! IntroductionSmart Cities in Canada From: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs |
The introduction provides a general definition of what constitutes a “Smart City” as well as exploring what prompted the authors of this title to write about smart cities in Canada. | Alexandra Flynn; Mariana Valverde | 14 | 2020 | $1.40 Add |
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From NEW! IntroductionFrom: Dream States |
The introduction looks towards the future of the post-pandemic city. | John Lorinc | 13 | 2022 | $1.30 Add |
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From NEW! IntroductionFrom: Messy Cities |
Co-editor Dylan Reid provides an overview of “messy urbanism”, explaining the overarching argument of the book which is that this disorder is necessary for cities to thrive. | Dylan Reid | 10 | 2025 | $1.00 Add |
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From “It’s Not My Country Yet…”From: Persistent Poverty |
Brice Balmer; Jamie Swift; Mira Dineen | 12 | 2010 | $1.20 Add | |
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From “It’s Prime Land, and Why Would They Leave That to Poor People?”Vancouver's Little Mountain Housing From: Good Places to Live |
Jim Silver | 21 | 2011 | $2.10 Add | |
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From Paradoxes of Street Life |
Benjamin Roebuck; Sue-Ann MacDonald | 19 | 2018 | $1.90 Add |
