Planning & Urban Development
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From  King Car:The Automobile’s Golden Age From: Car Nation |
1945-1973. Analyzes the Great post-war boom in the car industry and argues that the automobile emblems of the era They represented a new industrial might, a new ethos of consumption and a new … | Dimitry Anastakis | 19 | 2008 | $1.90 Add |
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From  NEW! Losing Your BicycleChapter 5 |
In Losing Your Bicycle Waters discusses the problems that can arise from the disappearance or theft of a bicycle. The chapter examines topics including property law as they pertain to bikes, the … | Christopher Waters | 20 | 2022 | $2.00 Add |
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From  NEW! Privatized Policymaking on Toronto’s WaterfrontFrom: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs |
Chapter 4 explores how smart cities projects allow private companies to shape municipal policies to suit their own interests as opposed to the interests of the population. | Natasha Tusikov | 15 | 2020 | $1.50 Add |
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From  Race to the bottomInequality and poverty |
The fourth chapter of Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars? considers the equity and poverty aspects of public transit versus the automobile, asserting that communities that are serious about … | James Wilt | 18 | 2020 | $1.80 Add |
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From  Sharing, Community and DecolonizationUrban Aboriginal Community Development From: In Their Own Voices |
- | Jim Silver; Parvin Ghorayshi | 41 | 2006 | $5.33 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  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 |
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From  Urban Water ManagementFrom: Dry Run |
What are the opportunities for urban water management in the coming decade, the second of this century? Where should cities be looking for means and methods to meet their water supply … | Jerry Yudelson | 22 | 2010 | $2.20 Add |
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From  Wrong TurnIs a P3 the Best Way to Expand Edmonton’s LRT From: Ideology over Economics |
Assessment of the Proposed P3 Approach for the Southeast Line Private Operation of the Southeast Line and VfM Risk Transfer in the VfM Edmonton’s LRT Should Have Been Fully Public … | John Loxley | 26 | 2020 | $2.60 Add |
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From NEW! An Activist Perspective on the Sidewalk ProjectFrom: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs |
Chapter 5 explores the impact of Toronto’s Sidewalk Labs project from the perspective of Labour organization and activism. | Nick de Carlo | 11 | 2020 | $1.10 Add |
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From  NEW! Chapter 2Introducing Online and Telephone Voting |
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 |
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From  Chapter FiveCalifornia dreaming From: On Borrowed Time |
California’s devastating history of earthquakes is examined. The state’s exceptional response to these tragedies is also outlined. | Gregor Craigie | 18 | 2021 | $1.80 Add |
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From  NEW! Cities, Communications Technology, and the Feedback DilemmasThe Technology of Cities From: Dream States |
The Technology of Cities: Part 5 explores the dilemma of cities during the Cold War. Topics discussed include nuclear war, de-urbanization, Cold War anxieties, commercialization, telephones, and more. | John Lorinc | 12 | 2022 | $1.20 Add |
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From Crowding outCongestion and safety |
The fifth chapter of Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars? evaluates the three revolutions using the criteria of congestion and safety. The author demonstrates that cars of any kind will not solve … | James Wilt | 21 | 2020 | $2.10 Add |
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From Do-It-Yourself PowerFrom: Charging Ahead |
This chapter examines self-generation of energy, looking at individuals and programs in Quebec that are taking different approaches to energy production and consumption, and how these approaches … | Jean-Benoît Nadeau; Julie Barlow | 14 | 2019 | $1.40 Add |
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From  Fighting Institutional RacismFrom: Uprooting Racism |
The following chapters examine ways racism plays out in some of our major institutions during this period of neoliberal capitalism. Each institution mentioned here reinforces others and … | Paul Kivel | 85 | 2017 | $8.50 Add |
