Planning & Urban Development
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 NEW! 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 … | 200 | View | ||
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From  NEW! Smart City Tech: A PrimerThe Dream of the Smart City From: Dream States |
The Dream of the Smart City: Part 1 explores the tech needed to create a smart city. Discussing topics including what makes technology ‘smart’, ‘machine learning’ … | John Lorinc | 18 | 2022 | $1.80 Add |
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From NEW! Smart City Tech and the Promise of Green CitiesThe Dream of the Smart City From: Dream States |
The Dream of the Smart City: Part 5 explores the possibility of green cities with smart innovation. Topics discussed include post-industrial cities, climate change, pollution, urban … | John Lorinc | 16 | 2022 | $1.60 Add |
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From  Some Historical ShitFrom: No Place To Go |
This chapter covers sewers, the history of human waste management and public infrastructure design and highlights issues of gender, physical and racial accessibility. | Lezlie Lowe | 20 | 2018 | $2.00 Add |
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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 Africville Experience: Lessons for the FutureFrom: The Spirit of Africville |
In this chapter, Stephen Kimber describes the resilience of former Africville residents and how the community fought to stay connected after relocation by organizing Africville reunions. He also … | Stephen Kimber | 26 | 2026 | $2.60 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 |
