Planning & Urban Development

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From NEW! Chapter 18 Responding to the Recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission From: Local Government in Practice View Emond Montgomery	Chapter 18 places the reader in a role of human resources leader interested in applying the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Upon digging deeper, the reader discovers …	Joseph Lyons; Kate Graham; Zachary Spicer	8	2020	$0.80 Add
From NEW! Chapter 19 Negotiating an Inter-Municipal Water Agreement From: Local Government in Practice View Emond Montgomery	Chapter 19 puts the reader in the position of an engineer who must be part of negotiations to define a contract for water services among several local governments. The reader discovers the …	Joseph Lyons; Kate Graham; Zachary Spicer	8	2020	$0.80 Add
From NEW! Chapter 2 Introducing Online and Telephone Voting From: Local Government in Practice View Collection: Behind the Curtain: Day-to-day Government in Canada Emond Montgomery	In this chapter, the reader assumes the role of clerk in a large municipality faced with the challenge of deciding how to make local elections safe, secure and accessible in order to increase …	Joseph Lyons; Kate Graham; Zachary Spicer	9	2020	$0.90 Add
From NEW! Chapter 20 Opening a Safe Injection Site From: Local Government in Practice View Emond Montgomery	In Chapter 20, the reader is again a newly elected councillor who must navigate community division over a supervised injection site.	Joseph Lyons; Kate Graham; Zachary Spicer	7	2020	$0.70 Add
From NEW! Chapter 21 Creating a New Noise By-Law From: Local Government in Practice View Emond Montgomery	Chapter 21 asks the reader to consider how to regulate nuisances such as noise as population density increases, from the perspective of a director of community relations.	Joseph Lyons; Kate Graham; Zachary Spicer	8	2020	$0.80 Add
From NEW! Chapter 22 Water Fluoridation From: Local Government in Practice View Emond Montgomery	As a chief medical officer in Chapter 22, the reader must navigate a group of citizens who would like to remove fluoridation from municipal water.	Joseph Lyons; Kate Graham; Zachary Spicer	8	2020	$0.80 Add
From NEW! Chapter 23 Banning Plastic Bags From: Local Government in Practice View Emond Montgomery	In chapter 23, the reader becomes a municipal administrator preparing a report for council on banning plastic bags, only to find the topic is much more complex than anticipated.	Joseph Lyons; Kate Graham; Zachary Spicer	8	2020	$0.80 Add
From NEW! Chapter 24 Crafting an Arts and Culture Strategy From: Local Government in Practice View Emond Montgomery	Chapter 24 places the reader in the role of a director of culture for a large urban municipality and is tasked with designing an arts and culture strategy. Implementation with diverse and …	Joseph Lyons; Kate Graham; Zachary Spicer	8	2020	$0.80 Add
From NEW! Chapter 25 Regulating Private Transportation Companies From: Local Government in Practice View Emond Montgomery	Chapter 25 leads the reader into the challenge of regulating private transportation network companies, a complex and quickly evolving area.	Joseph Lyons; Kate Graham; Zachary Spicer	7	2020	$0.70 Add
From NEW! Chapter 3 Changing Municipal Electoral Boundaries From: Local Government in Practice View Emond Montgomery	Chapter three asks the reader to consider how redrawing ward boundaries opens up the inner workings and processes of municipal government.	Joseph Lyons; Kate Graham; Zachary Spicer	10	2020	$1.00 Add
From NEW! Chapter 4 Blowing the Whistle From: Local Government in Practice View Emond Montgomery	In this chapter, the reader is asked to consider what to do when you observe unethical decision-making by your manager. You report the concern, only to have the file transferred to another staff. …	Joseph Lyons; Kate Graham; Zachary Spicer	8	2020	$0.80 Add
From NEW! Chapter 5 Creating a Code of Conduct and Lobbyist Registry From: Local Government in Practice View Emond Montgomery	In this chapter, the reader an employee in the Clerk’s office, and must develop a code of conduct and lobbyist registry, which brings up questions of how power, politics and other competing …	Joseph Lyons; Kate Graham; Zachary Spicer	8	2020	$0.80 Add
From NEW! Chapter 6 Balancing the Budget From: Local Government in Practice View Emond Montgomery	In this chapter, the reader is a councillor for affluent neighbourhoods in a mid-sized city and must grapple with competing issues related to the budget, such as homelessness.	Joseph Lyons; Kate Graham; Zachary Spicer	8	2020	$0.80 Add
From NEW! Chapter 7 Dealing with Police Salaries From: Local Government in Practice View Emond Montgomery	In this chapter, the reader becomes a junior financial analyst in the middle of a public debate about compensation in the public sector, with a focus on police force salaries. The reader …	Joseph Lyons; Kate Graham; Zachary Spicer	8	2020	$0.80 Add
From NEW! Chapter 8 Increasing User Fees for Recreation From: Local Government in Practice View Emond Montgomery	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
From NEW! Chapter 9 Subsidizing Transit Passes for Seniors From: Local Government in Practice View Emond Montgomery	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