Planning & Urban Development

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Growth Versus Social Responsibility

Growth Versus Social Responsibility

Union Pension Funds and P3s in Canada

From: Ideology over Economics

The Movement Toward Public–Private Partnerships (P3s) in Canada The Infrastructure Gap in Canada Arguments for the P3 Route The Arguments for P3s Considered Private-Sector Attraction to … 24 $2.40 Add
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Guelph and Wellington County’s Urban-Rural Smart City Project
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Guelph and Wellington County’s Urban-Rural Smart City Project

Our Food Future

From: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs

Chapter 8 explores Guelph’s smart cities project, which seeks to use technology to bridge the urban rural divide and develop a sustainable network of food production and consumption 12 $1.20 Add
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Healing in Suburbia: A Black Woman’s Cancer Recovery through Cycling and the Diaspora
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Healing in Suburbia: A Black Woman’s Cancer Recovery through Cycling and the Diaspora

From: Living Disability

Nicole Hanson writes about where and how people bike in the Caribbean, as well as her experiences relating to Black biking culture across different regions. She explains the importance of … 11 $1.10 Add
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Heron Gate and the Financialization of Rental Housing

Heron Gate and the Financialization of Rental Housing

From: Resisting Eviction

Chapter 6 examines Heron Gate’s owner and landlord in more detail. Crosby takes a deep dive into the world of financialized real estate investment within a broader context of housing policy and … 15 $1.50 Add
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Heron Gate, Racial Stigma, and Strategic Neglect

Heron Gate, Racial Stigma, and Strategic Neglect

From: Resisting Eviction

Chapter 5 offers a profile of Heron Gate Village. Crosbys analyzes statistics on community demographics and housing. With its high concentration of immigrants, refugees, and people of colour, … 17 $1.70 Add
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How Technology is Reshaping the Post-Pandemic City
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How Technology is Reshaping the Post-Pandemic City

Conclusion

From: Dream States

Conclusion: part 2 explores how technology can be used in reshaping the post-pandemic cities. 12 $1.20 Add
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Human Rights and Racial Discrimination in Housing

Human Rights and Racial Discrimination in Housing

From: Resisting Eviction

This book concludes with a discussion of the human rights case initiated by Heron Gate tenants evicted in 2018 who are seeking a right to return. The potentially precedent-setting case before the … 7 $0.70 Add
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Hydro World

Hydro World

From: Charging Ahead

This chapter explores Hydro-Quebec and international energy circles, and the work of Hydro-Quebec International (HQI). ; 10 $1.00 Add
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Ideology is Trumping Economic Reality

Ideology is Trumping Economic Reality

From: Ideology over Economics

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Ideology over Economics

Ideology over Economics

P3s in an Age of Austerity

Public private partnerships in which the private sector takes on roles previously carried out by the public sector have been heavily promoted in the provision of infrastructure throughout the … 268 View
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Ideology Trumping Economic Reality

Ideology Trumping Economic Reality

P3s After the Global Financial Crisis

From: Ideology over Economics

The Global Financial Crisis and the Credit Markets The Impact of the Crisis on P3 Activity Private-Sector Response to the Crisis Government Reaction to the Crisis The Costs and Benefits of P3s Do … 24 $2.40 Add
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Immigration  “Managing” Canadian Immigration

Immigration “Managing” Canadian Immigration

Racism, Racialization, and the Law

From: Gender, Race & Canadian Law

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Index
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Index

From: Local Government in Practice

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Indigenous Exclusion and Access to the Internet
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Indigenous Exclusion and Access to the Internet

The Case of Nunavut

From: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs

Chapter 9 explores how digital technology is also a tool for social well being, giving people access to health, education, cultural expression and political participation. It explores this … 18 $1.80 Add
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Industrial Land’s Secret Sauce
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Industrial Land’s Secret Sauce

From: Messy Cities

Karen Chapple writes about the potential avenues for preserving existing messy but productive industrial spaces, while introducing innovation districts in cities around the world. 9 $0.90 Add
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Innisfil and Uber
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Innisfil and Uber

A Rural Municipality’s Misadventures in Smart Public Transit

From: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs

Chapter 10 explores smart city projects that make use of ridesharing and their pitfalls. 11 $1.10 Add