Planning & Urban Development
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From  NEW! Sports and SpacesFrom: Messy Cities |
Perry King writes about the public spaces utilized for sports in urban cities such as the multi-purpose sports courts housed beneath highways in Navi, Mumbai. | Dylan Reid | 6 | 2025 | $0.60 Add |
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From  Stall TacticsFrom: No Place To Go |
In this chapter, the author looks at public toilet accessibility from the perspectives of those with physical disabilities. | Lezlie Lowe | 17 | 2018 | $1.70 Add |
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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 |
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From  Sustainable Development at the Local Level |
This chapter tackles sustainable development at the local level and highlights some projects undertaken under municipal mandates. This study is limited to the Nordic capitals — Stockholm, … | Dominique Côté; Marie-France Raynault; Sébastien Chartrand | 23 | 2015 | $2.30 Add |
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From  Technical ProwessFrom: Charging Ahead |
This chapter explores Hydro-Quebec’s impressive technical systems. It discusses the laboratory in Varennes (part of the campus of the Hydro-Quebec’s research institute – … | Jean-Benoît Nadeau; Julie Barlow | 18 | 2019 | $1.80 Add |
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From  Ten STeps to Preventing the Next Urban Water CrisisFrom: Dry Run |
In this chapter, I propose a 10-step program of measures that water activists can unite behind, from the immediately possible to long-term fixes that will depend on the water issues in a specific … | Jerry Yudelson | 20 | 2010 | $2.00 Add |
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From  NEW! Tenants, a Social ClassFrom: The Tenant Class |
Ricardo discusses the socioeconomic characteristics of tenants in Canada and argues that they exist as an economically exploited social class. He examines the Canadian rental market by providing … | Ricardo Tranjan | 12 | 2023 | $1.20 Add |
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From Testing the Power SystemFrom: Charging Ahead |
This chapter explores Hydro-Quebec’s current experimental projects/evolutions in the way that they are producing energy, looking at their experiments with solar, geothermal, and hydrogen … | Jean-Benoît Nadeau; Julie Barlow | 18 | 2019 | $1.80 Add |
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From NEW! The Ballet of the Parking LotFrom: Messy Cities |
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 |
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From The Battery of the North EastFrom: Charging Ahead |
This chapter is about Hydro-Quebec and energy-trading. | Jean-Benoît Nadeau; Julie Barlow | 19 | 2019 | $1.90 Add |
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From  NEW! The Birth of the FactoryFrom: Being and Swine |
In this chapter, philosopher Fahim Amir discusses the rise of urbanization in the western world and the role that animals have played in this process. Included in the chapter are a discussion of … | Corvin Russell; Fahim Amir; Geoffrey C. Howes | 37 | 2020 | $3.70 Add |
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From NEW! The Case Against Controlling InfrastructureFrom: Messy Cities |
Andrés Borthagaray writes that a combination of messy and orderly urbanism produces beneficial interaction, and uses examples of mobility infrastructure to illustrate their point. | Dylan Reid | 5 | 2025 | $0.50 Add |
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From NEW! The Collective Effervescence of Messy ParksFrom: Messy Cities |
Jake Tobin Garrett writes about how the pandemic broke previous understandings of public space for Canadians, specifically examining parks. | Dylan Reid | 7 | 2025 | $0.70 Add |
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From The Electric RevolutionFrom: Charging Ahead |
This chapter situates Hydro-Quebec and its impressive system and evolution in the context of the global electricity industry. It delves more into the history of H-Q and Quebec politics. | Jean-Benoît Nadeau; Julie Barlow | 18 | 2019 | $1.80 Add |
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From  The End of One Era, The Beginning of AnotherBoomers' Last Chance? From: Peak Everything |
In this chapter I hope to explore some of the circumstances that have made us Boomers what and who we are, and to argue that, having failed to live up to some of our expressed ideals and now … | Richard Heinberg | 14 | 2010 | $1.40 Add |
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From The Future is HereFrom: Charging Ahead |
This chapter explores challenges faced by Hydro-Quebec and the future of their system and technologies. It explores the possibility of H-Q getting involved in new energy alternatives, in … | Jean-Benoît Nadeau; Julie Barlow | 21 | 2019 | $2.10 Add |
