Planning & Urban Development
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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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 … | James Wilt | 306 | 2020 | View |
![]() Ideology over EconomicsP3s 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 … | John Loxley | 268 | 2020 | View |
![]() Local Government in PracticeCases 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 … | Zachary Spicer | 330 | 2020 | View |
![]() No Place To GoHow 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 … | Lezlie Lowe | 209 | 2018 | View |
![]() Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate DesignsIndependent 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 … | Alexandra Flynn; Mariana Valverde | 200 | 2020 | View |
![]() Toward Sustainable CommunitiesSolutions 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, … | Marc Roseland | 257 | 2012 | View |
From ![]() Game of ThronesFrom: No Place To Go |
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 … | Lezlie Lowe | 12 | 2018 | $1.20 Add |
From ![]() IntroductionSmart Cities in Canada From: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs |
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. | Alexandra Flynn; Mariana Valverde | 14 | 2020 | $1.40 Add |
From ![]() IntroductionThe slow bleed |
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 … | James Wilt | 16 | 2020 | $1.60 Add |
From ![]() Preface |
An introduction to the structure and purpose of the book and author acknowledgements. | Joseph Lyons; Zachary Spicer | 4 | 2020 | $0.40 Add |
From ![]() PrefaceFrom: Ideology over Economics |
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. | John Loxley | 9 | 2020 | $0.90 Add |
From ![]() About the Authors |
Author biographies. | Joseph Lyons; Kate Graham; Zachary Spicer | 2 | 2020 | $0.20 Add |
From ![]() Off the railsA brief history of automotive domination |
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 … | James Wilt | 17 | 2020 | $1.70 Add |
From ![]() P3 BasicsFrom: Ideology over Economics |
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 … | John Loxley | 17 | 2020 | $1.70 Add |
From ![]() Smart Cities as a Civic Leaders’ Survivor GameThe Lure of Innovation in a Competitive World From: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs |
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 … | Mariana Valverde | 15 | 2020 | $1.50 Add |
From ![]() Step 1: Selecting Behaviors |
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 … | Doug McKenzie-Mohr | 11 | 2011 | $0.11 Add |