Planning & Urban Development

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Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars?

Public Transit in the Age of Google, Uber, and Elon Musk

 Public transportation is in crisis. Through an assessment of the history of automobility in North America, the “three revolutions” in automotive transportation, as well as the current … 306 View

Ideology over Economics

P3s in an Age of Austerity

 Public private partnerships in which the private sector takes on roles previously carried out by the public sector have been heavily promoted in the provision of infrastructure throughout the … 268 View

Local Government in Practice

Cases in Governance, Planning and Policy

 Local Government in Practice: Cases in Governance, Planning, and Policy equips students to effectively deal with contemporary challenges within local government. Through a series of … 330 View

No Place To Go

How Public Toilets Fail our Private Needs

 This book is Number One in addressing the politics of where we’re allowed to "go" in public. Adults don’t talk about the business of doing our business. We work on one … 209 View

Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs

Independent experts analyze often-controversial schemes from Nunavut to Montreal to Toronto’s failed Sidewalk Labs waterfront scheme

 "Smart cities" use surveillance, big data processing and interactive technologies to reshape urban life. Transit riders can see the bus coming on a map on their phones. Cities can … ; 200 View

Toward Sustainable Communities

Solutions for Citizens and Their Governments - Fourth Edition

 The need to make our communities sustainable is more urgent than ever before. Toward Sustainable Communities remains the single most useful resource for creating vibrant, healthy, equitable, … 257 View
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Game of Thrones

From: No Place To Go

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 This first chapter makes the case for public washrooms through personal and anecdotal stories of the paradox they present: everyone needs them and thinks about them often, and yet they are … 12 $1.20 Add
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Introduction

Smart Cities in Canada

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

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 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. ; 14 $1.40 Add
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Introduction

The slow bleed

From: Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars?

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 The introduction of Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars? begins with a survey of positive and progressive images of public transit throughout the history of science fiction, most recently in the … 16 $1.60 Add
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Preface

From: Local Government in Practice

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 An introduction to the structure and purpose of the book and author acknowledgements. ; 4 $0.40 Add
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Preface

From: Ideology over Economics

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 In this section the author outlines his background as well as providing a list of terms and initialisms that will be used throughout the rest of the text. 9 $0.90 Add
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About the Authors

From: Local Government in Practice

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 Author biographies. ; ; 2 $0.20 Add
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Off the rails

A brief history of automotive domination

From: Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars?

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 opens with a critique of Elon Musk’s damning opinion of public transit, before diving into a short history of how the automobile became the dominant transport option in North America. He … 17 $1.70 Add
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P3 Basics

From: Ideology over Economics

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 What Are Public–Private Partnerships (P3s)? Prevalence of P3s Forms of P3 Prevalence of Types of P3s For and Against P3s Value for Money (VfM) Empirical Analysis of P3s The Enabling … 17 $1.70 Add
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Smart Cities as a Civic Leaders’ Survivor Game

The Lure of Innovation in a Competitive World

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

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 Chapter 1 explores what leads municipal governments to persue smart city projects, whether they are seen as a quick and easy fix to deeper underlying infrastructure and urban planning issues, and … 15 $1.50 Add
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Step 1: Selecting Behaviors

From: Fostering Sustainable Behavior

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 Whether you are developing a program to promote water efficiency, waste reduction, watershed protection, energy efficiency, modal transportation shifts, or virtually any other area related to … 11 $0.11 Add