Urban Issues

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Precarious Work: How Lax Employment Standards Perpetuate Poverty

From: Persistent Poverty

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Privatized Policymaking on Toronto’s Waterfront

From: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs

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Chapter 4 explores how smart cities projects allow private companies to shape municipal policies to suit their own interests as opposed to the interests of the population. 15 $1.50 Add
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An Activist Perspective on the Sidewalk Project

From: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs

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Chapter 5 explores the impact of Toronto’s Sidewalk Labs project from the perspective of Labour organization and activism. 11 $1.10 Add
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Cities, Communications Technology, and the Feedback Dilemmas

The Technology of Cities

From: Dream States

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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. 12 $1.20 Add
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Ontario Works: How Did This Happen to Me?

From: Persistent Poverty

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Rebuilding from Within

Winnipeg's Lord Selkirk Park

From: Good Places to Live

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Surviving and Keeping Safe

From: Staying Alive While Living The Life

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Building Good Places to Live

From: Good Places to Live

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Evolving Roles and Identities

From: Staying Alive While Living The Life

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Smart City Tech: A Primer

The Dream of the Smart City

From: Dream States

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The Dream of the Smart City: Part 1 explores the tech needed to create a smart city. Discussing topics including what makes technology ‘smart’, ‘machine learning’ … 18 $1.80 Add
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The Disorienting Disability Support Maze

From: Persistent Poverty

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Was Sidewalk Toronto a PR Experiment or a Development Proposal

From: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs

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Chapter 6 asks the question of whether Toronto’s Sidewalk Labs project was a realistic urban development program or a PR stunt by Google to market their products on a large stage. 8 $0.80 Add
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Montreal

The Ambiguity of the Smart City

From: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs

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Chapter 7 explores Montreal’s various projects in the 21st century which were taken with the goal of integrating technology into the urban landscape. The chapter explores how different … 13 $1.30 Add
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Navigating Obstacles and Negotiating with Service Providers

From: Staying Alive While Living The Life

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Queer Families, Compensatory Motherhood, and the Political Culture of Escalation

From: Conflict Is Not Abuse

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This chapter examines the role of the family as a dangerous place of production of this group-based negative loyalty, male control, and violence. The author suggests that the rising legitimacy of … 22 $0.44 Add
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Smart Cities and the Origins of Utopian Urbanism

The Dream of the Smart City

From: Dream States

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The Dream of the Smart City: Part 2 explores the origins of utopian urbanism. Topics discussed include history of urban planning, the history of ghetto’s, Bauhaus and the Garden City … 16 $1.60 Add