Planning & Urban Development

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Sports and Spaces
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Sports and Spaces

From: 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. 6 $0.60 Add
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Stall Tactics

Stall Tactics

From: No Place To Go

In this chapter, the author looks at public toilet accessibility from the perspectives of those with physical disabilities. 17 $1.70 Add
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Step 1: Selecting Behaviors

Step 1: Selecting Behaviors

From: Fostering Sustainable Behavior

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
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Sustainable Development at the Local Level

Sustainable Development at the Local Level

From: Scandinavian Common Sense

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, … ; ; 23 $2.30 Add
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Technical Prowess

Technical Prowess

From: 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 – … ; 18 $1.80 Add
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Ten STeps to Preventing the Next Urban Water Crisis

Ten STeps to Preventing the Next Urban Water Crisis

From: 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 … 20 $2.00 Add
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Tenants, a Social Class
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Tenants, a Social Class

From: 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 … 12 $1.20 Add
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Testing the Power System

Testing the Power System

From: 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 … ; 18 $1.80 Add
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The Ballet of the Parking Lot
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The Ballet of the Parking Lot

From: 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 … 9 $0.90 Add
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The Battery of the North East

The Battery of the North East

From: Charging Ahead

This chapter is about Hydro-Quebec and energy-trading. ; 19 $1.90 Add
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The Birth of the Factory
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The Birth of the Factory

From: 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 … ; ; 37 $3.70 Add
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The Case Against Controlling Infrastructure
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The Case Against Controlling Infrastructure

From: 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. 5 $0.50 Add
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The Collective Effervescence of Messy Parks
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The Collective Effervescence of Messy Parks

From: Messy Cities

Jake Tobin Garrett writes about how the pandemic broke previous understandings of public space for Canadians, specifically examining parks. 7 $0.70 Add
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The Electric Revolution

The Electric Revolution

From: 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. ; 18 $1.80 Add
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The End of One Era, The Beginning of Another

The End of One Era, The Beginning of Another

Boomers' 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 … 14 $1.40 Add
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The Future is Here

The Future is Here

From: 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 … ; 21 $2.10 Add