Planning & Urban Development
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From  NEW! Guelph and Wellington County’s Urban-Rural Smart City ProjectOur 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 | Ellie Ruggles | 12 | 2020 | $1.20 Add |
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From  Old town roadRural and intercity transit |
Chapter eight of Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars? looks at how the three revolutions in automobility intersect with rural areas’ transportation needs and with intercity transit, and ends … | James Wilt | 18 | 2020 | $1.80 Add |
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From  Part 2: Sustainable Community Building BlocksTransportation Planning and Traffic Management |
Unsustainable transport systems not only are a major contributor to atmosphere change, but also lead to increasing congestion, longer commuting times, increasing demands for shorter work hours to … | Marc Roseland | 19 | 2012 | $1.90 Add |
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From  NEW! Planning Smart CitiesThe Dream of the Smart City From: Dream States |
The Dream of the Smart City: Part 3 explores planning smart cities. Topics discussed include transportation, census data, what is meant by urban ‘blight’, public and city … | John Lorinc | 15 | 2022 | $1.50 Add |
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From  There Is No Free LunchP3s in the Global South From: Ideology over Economics |
The Infrastructure Gap in Global South Countries Extent of P3 Activities in Global South Countries P3s and the International Financial Crisis Determinants of P3s Advantages and Disadvantages for … | John Loxley | 52 | 2020 | $5.20 Add |
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From  War and PeesFrom: No Place To Go |
This chapter considers the issue of gender and public washrooms, particularly the needs and preferences of transgender people. | Lezlie Lowe | 20 | 2018 | $2.00 Add |
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From All the Same Problems and MoreAre P3s the Answer to Africa’s Infrastructure Needs? From: Ideology over Economics |
The Infrastructure Gap in Africa Extent of Private Involvement in African Infrastructure Trends in P3s in Africa Legal and Infrastructural Provisions for P3s in Africa Claims Made for P3s … | John Loxley | 11 | 2020 | $1.10 Add |
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From  Chapter NineBig risk in the Big Apple From: On Borrowed Time |
New York’s seismic threat, the Coney Island earthquake, and the substantial risk posed by nuclear power stations. | Gregor Craigie | 17 | 2021 | $1.70 Add |
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From  NEW! Human Rights and Racial Discrimination in HousingFrom: 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 … | Andrew Crosby | 7 | 2023 | $0.70 Add |
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From NEW! Indigenous Exclusion and Access to the InternetThe 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 … | Alexandra Flynn | 18 | 2020 | $1.80 Add |
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From Part 2: Sustainable Community Building BlocksLand Use and Urban Form |
Sustainable land use can help invigorate communities, and provide considerable environmental, economic, social, and cultural benefits. Redeveloping and reusing existing buildings and land can … | Marc Roseland | 21 | 2012 | $2.10 Add |
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From  NEW! Part IICases in Finances |
Part II introduces municipal budgets and the broader municipal financial landscape in Canada. | Joseph Lyons; Kate Graham; Zachary Spicer | 11 | 2020 | $1.10 Add |
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From Pipe DreamsFrom: No Place To Go |
The author details several creative, artistic ways various cities are acknowledging the need for accessible public toilets. | Lezlie Lowe | 15 | 2018 | $1.50 Add |
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From NEW! Smart Cities, Big Data, and a Question of TrustThe Dream of the Smart City From: Dream States |
The Dream of the Smart City: Part 4 discusses questions of personal data. Topics discussed include open access, data and privacy, data bias, open data, and municipal dashboards. | John Lorinc | 17 | 2022 | $1.70 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 Walmart on wheelsLabour and unions |
Chapter nine of Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars? examines the labour and union aspects of the three revolutions in automobility as well as of public transit, and finds that carpooling apps in … | James Wilt | 18 | 2020 | $1.80 Add |
