Planning & Urban Development
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From  NEW! Them’s the BrakesOut “Smarting” Traffic Safety Efforts in Edmonton From: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs |
Chapter 11 explores the ways in which the public resists the implementation of smart city technologies | Jen Raso | 15 | 2020 | $1.50 Add |
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From  NEW! Chapter 8Increasing User Fees for Recreation |
Chapter eight again places the reader in a junior financial analyst role, where they must figure out how to best serve the public interest in the face of a need to raise fees for recreation services. | Joseph Lyons; Kate Graham; Zachary Spicer | 8 | 2020 | $0.80 Add |
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From  Chapter TwelveThe unfathomed Atlantic From: On Borrowed Time |
A look at earthquakes and tsunamis on North America’s Atlantic coast. Details the earthquake, tsunami, and destruction that occurred in 1929. Assesses the risk and preparedness of Atlantic … | Gregor Craigie | 12 | 2021 | $1.20 Add |
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From NEW! Fashion and Design in the Age of Digital SurveillanceFrom: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs |
Chapter 12 explores the ways in which the public resists the implementation of smart city technologies | Car Martin | 13 | 2020 | $1.30 Add |
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From  NEW! Function Creep and SurveillanceThe Dream of the Smart City From: Dream States |
The Dream of the Smart City: Part 7 explores the role of surveillance in smart cities. Topics discussed include CityIQ, the use of cameras, widespread surveillance, ‘function … | John Lorinc | 13 | 2022 | $1.30 Add |
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From  The Reactive CustomerFrom: Charging Ahead |
This chapter looks at Hydro-Quebec’s customers and their perception of H-Q. | Jean-Benoît Nadeau; Julie Barlow | 18 | 2019 | $1.80 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 9Subsidizing Transit Passes for Seniors |
Here, the junior financial analyst must decide what to do with the contentious issue of subsidizing transit for seniors, knowing that the decisions will communicate about underlying values about … | Joseph Lyons; Kate Graham; Zachary Spicer | 7 | 2020 | $0.70 Add |
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From Chapter ThirteenCountering complacency From: On Borrowed Time |
This chapter summarizes the measures that need to be taken to protect communities from earthquakes and tsunamis. Discusses what has actually been accomplished and how much further they ought to go. | Gregor Craigie | 21 | 2021 | $2.10 Add |
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From NEW! The Special Case of AI and Big Data–Based PolicingThe Dream of the Smart City From: Dream States |
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 |
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From Visible from SpaceFrom: Charging Ahead |
This chapter looks at Hydro-Quebec, criticisms, and environmental concerns. | Jean-Benoît Nadeau; Julie Barlow | 17 | 2019 | $1.70 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 10Debating Privatization |
In chapter ten, the reader works in the Public Works department and must consider whether and which services to begin privatizing. | Joseph Lyons; Kate Graham; Zachary Spicer | 8 | 2020 | $0.80 Add |
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From EpilogueLiving with the risk From: On Borrowed Time |
The author discusses his personal journey of getting his family and their home prepared for the next massive earthquake. | Gregor Craigie | 8 | 2021 | $0.80 Add |
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From Not in My BackyardFrom: Charging Ahead |
This chapter explores Hydro-Quebec’s management of community relations and social acceptability for its projects. | Jean-Benoît Nadeau; Julie Barlow | 14 | 2019 | $1.40 Add |
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From  Responding to Water Crises: A Tale of Four CitiesFrom: Dry Run |
In chapter 3, we looked at contemporary water crises in Australia, Atlanta and San Diego. We’ll learn what their successes can teach us about how to create effective water conservation … | Jerry Yudelson | 21 | 2010 | $2.10 Add |
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From NEW! The Utopianism of Smart City MegaprojectsThe Dream of the Smart City From: Dream States |
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 |
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From Masters in their Own HouseFrom: Charging Ahead |
This chapter explores Hydro-Quebec’s relationships with Quebec’s Indigenous communities (such as Quebec’s Cree, Inuit, and Innu communities), and the history of these relations. | Jean-Benoît Nadeau; Julie Barlow | 19 | 2019 | $1.90 Add |
