Urban Issues

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Keeping Healthy, Managing Risks From: Staying Alive While Living The Life View Fernwood Publishing		Benjamin Roebuck; Sue-Ann MacDonald	20	2018	$2.00 Add
From The Affordable Housing Deficit Out of the Cold From: Persistent Poverty View Between The Lines		Brice Balmer; Jamie Swift; Mira Dineen	9	2010	$0.90 Add
From NEW! The Ballet of the Parking Lot From: Messy Cities View Coach House Books	Brendan Stewart and Daniel Rotsztain write about the plazaPOPS initiative in Etobicoke North to illustrate the vibrancy of community life that strip malls generate and how these plazas can be …	Dylan Reid	9	2025	$0.90 Add
From The Cost of Hunger Food Security and Health Issues From: Persistent Poverty View Between The Lines		Brice Balmer; Jamie Swift; Mira Dineen	9	2010	$0.90 Add
From The Disorienting Disability Support Maze From: Persistent Poverty View Between The Lines		Brice Balmer; Jamie Swift; Mira Dineen	10	2010	$1.00 Add
From The Duty of Repair From: Conflict Is Not Abuse View Arsenal Pulp Press	In the Conclusion, the author explores how people with social commitments have a special responsibility to intervene to end shunning, facilitate communication, and do the work to reveal complex …	Sarah Schulman	15	2016	$0.15 Add
From The New Urban Poverty and Public Housing From: Good Places to Live View Fernwood Publishing		Jim Silver	29	2011	$2.90 Add
From The Police and the Politics of Overstating Harm From: Conflict Is Not Abuse View Arsenal Pulp Press	This chapter examines the expression of overstating harm in which the police are called or the state is invoked in matters where Conflict is misrepresented as Abuse. In trying to understand how …	Sarah Schulman	36	2016	$1.08 Add
From NEW! The Politics of Smart Cities The Dream of the Smart City From: Dream States View Coach House Books	The Dream of the Smart City: part 10 explores the politics of smart cities. Topics discussed include politics, think tanks, Privacy Legislation Reform, Regulatory Procedures, Data Governance, …	John Lorinc	17	2022	$1.70 Add
From NEW! The Public Park as a Commons From: Dispatches from the Threshold View Fernwood Publishing	In this chapter, Kramer and Upton Crowe examines how Toronto’s unhoused communities claimed public parks during the 2020 and 2021 pandemic, and how the city responded with violent evictions.	Anna Kramer; Jesse Upton Crowe	8	2025	$0.80 Add
From NEW! The Quagmire of Mobility Tech The Dream of the Smart City From: Dream States View Coach House Books	The Dream of the Smart City: Part 6 explores urban mobility. Topics discussed include electrification, transportation, bike-share programs, walkability, the use of public space, autonomous …	John Lorinc	17	2022	$1.70 Add
From NEW! The Selling of Toronto’s Smart City From: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs View Collection: Media and Society: Canadian Cases and Issues James Lorimer and Company	Chapter 1 explores the stakeholders who initially pitched the partnership between the city of Toronto and Google’s urban planning division Sidewalk Labs.	Blayne Haggart	16	2020	$1.60 Add
From The Shame of (Ignoring) the Cities From: Essential Readings in Canadian Government and Politics, 2nd Edition View Emond Montgomery	2001 article by Caroline Andrew arguing that Canadian cities must have a larger governance role, and describing how they can achieve it.	Debra Thompson; François Rocher; Peter Russell	5	2015	$0.50 Add
From NEW! The Special Case of AI and Big Data–Based Policing The Dream of the Smart City From: Dream States View Coach House Books	The Dream of the Smart City: Part 8 explores data-based policing. Topics discussed include facial recognition, surveillance networks., data-intensive policing technologies, and algorithms.	John Lorinc	17	2022	$1.70 Add
From NEW! The Utopianism of Smart City Megaprojects The Dream of the Smart City From: Dream States View Coach House Books	The Dream of the Smart City: Part 9 explores megaprojects. Topics discussed include profits, the rise of entrepreneurial urbanization,’ the quasi-privatized new cities, and the examples of …	John Lorinc	11	2022	$1.10 Add
From NEW! Them’s the Brakes Out “Smarting” Traffic Safety Efforts in Edmonton From: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs View Collection: The Corporate Assault on Canadian Cities: Smart Cities, Public-Private Partnerships, and initiatives across Canada James Lorimer and Company	Chapter 11 explores the ways in which the public resists the implementation of smart city technologies	Jen Raso	15	2020	$1.50 Add