Urban Issues
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From Precarious Work: How Lax Employment Standards Perpetuate PovertyFrom: Persistent Poverty |
- | Mary Gellatly | 10 | 2010 | $1.00 Add |
From NEW! Privatized Policymaking on Toronto’s WaterfrontFrom: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs |
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. | Natasha Tusikov | 15 | 2020 | $1.50 Add |
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 |
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 |
From Ontario Works: How Did This Happen to Me?From: Persistent Poverty |
- | Brice Balmer; Jamie Swift; Mira Dineen | 13 | 2010 | $1.30 Add |
From Rebuilding from WithinWinnipeg's Lord Selkirk Park From: Good Places to Live |
- | Jim Silver | 24 | 2011 | $2.40 Add |
From Surviving and Keeping Safe |
- | Benjamin Roebuck; Sue-Ann MacDonald | 26 | 2018 | $2.60 Add |
From Building Good Places to LiveFrom: Good Places to Live |
- | Jim Silver | 5 | 2011 | $0.50 Add |
From Evolving Roles and Identities |
- | Benjamin Roebuck; Sue-Ann MacDonald | 22 | 2018 | $2.20 Add |
From NEW! Smart City Tech: A PrimerThe Dream of the Smart City From: Dream States |
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’ … | John Lorinc | 18 | 2022 | $1.80 Add |
From The Disorienting Disability Support MazeFrom: Persistent Poverty |
- | Brice Balmer; Jamie Swift; Mira Dineen | 10 | 2010 | $1.00 Add |
From NEW! Was Sidewalk Toronto a PR Experiment or a Development ProposalFrom: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs |
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. | David Murakami Wood | 8 | 2020 | $0.80 Add |
From NEW! MontrealThe Ambiguity of the Smart City From: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs |
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 … | Lyne Nantel | 13 | 2020 | $1.30 Add |
From Navigating Obstacles and Negotiating with Service Providers |
- | Benjamin Roebuck; Sue-Ann MacDonald | 19 | 2018 | $1.90 Add |
From Queer Families, Compensatory Motherhood, and the Political Culture of EscalationFrom: Conflict Is Not Abuse |
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 … | Sarah Schulman | 22 | 2016 | $0.44 Add |
From NEW! Smart Cities and the Origins of Utopian UrbanismThe Dream of the Smart City From: Dream States |
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 … | John Lorinc | 16 | 2022 | $1.60 Add |