Urban Issues
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From ![]() NEW! Packrat CityFrom: Messy Cities |
Tatum Taylor Chaubal connects her “packrat” collecting tendencies with her role and values as a city heritage planner, advocating for these roles to include preserving the “messy urbanism” of the past. | Dylan Reid | 4 | 2025 | $0.40 Add |
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From ![]() Becoming Homeless |
Benjamin Roebuck; Sue-Ann MacDonald | 19 | 2018 | $1.90 Add | |
![]() Persistent PovertyVoices From the Margins |
It’s a very short trip from the limousine seat to the curb. Jim Mann never missed a payroll for the dozen men who worked for his flourishing landscaping business he built from the ground … | Brice Balmer; Jamie Swift; Mira Dineen | 184 | 2010 | View |
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From ![]() NEW! Planning for an Unplanned CityFrom: Messy Cities |
Jason Thorne argues for factoring in “messy urbanism” and its challenges into how we plan our cities and to move away from a more top-down approach to city-building. | Dylan Reid | 6 | 2025 | $0.60 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Planning Smart CitiesThe Dream of the Smart City From: Dream States |
The Dream of the Smart City: Part 3 explores planning smart cities. Topics discussed include transportation, census data, what is meant by urban ‘blight’, public and city … | John Lorinc | 15 | 2022 | $1.50 Add |
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From ![]() Navigating Obstacles and Negotiating with Service Providers |
Benjamin Roebuck; Sue-Ann MacDonald | 19 | 2018 | $1.90 Add | |
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From ![]() Poverty and Health“I’m One Stumble from the Street” From: Persistent Poverty |
Brice Balmer; Jamie Swift; Mira Dineen | 11 | 2010 | $1.10 Add | |
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From ![]() Poverty Makes Us SickFrom: Persistent Poverty |
Dennis Raphael | 11 | 2010 | $1.10 Add | |
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From ![]() Precarious WorkHow Lax Employment Standards Perpetuate Poverty From: Persistent Poverty |
Mary Gellatly | 10 | 2010 | $1.00 Add | |
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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 |
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From ![]() Persistent Poverty IntroductionThe Work of Hundreds of People From: Persistent Poverty |
The Introduction describes the process by which the the Interfaith Social Assistance Reform Coalition (ISARC) gathered the material for this book through a 2010 social audit process that engaged … | Brice Balmer; Jamie Swift; Mira Dineen | 5 | 2010 | $0.50 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! (Pseudo-) Participation in Smart City PlanningSidewalk Labs’ Fraught Toronto Foray From: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs |
Chapter 2 explores the factors that must be present for a smart cities project to be responsible and effective and then asses whether the Sidewalk Labs project in Toronto met any of these criteria. | Andrew Clement | 16 | 2020 | $1.60 Add |
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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 |
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From ![]() Rebuilding from WithinWinnipeg's Lord Selkirk Park From: Good Places to Live |
Jim Silver | 24 | 2011 | $2.40 Add | |
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From ![]() References |
Benjamin Roebuck; Sue-Ann MacDonald | 13 | 2018 | $1.30 Add | |
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From ![]() Rural PovertyHidden in the Country? From: Persistent Poverty |
Brice Balmer; Jamie Swift; Mira Dineen | 11 | 2010 | $1.10 Add |










