Planning & Urban Development

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Introduction
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Introduction

From: Dream States

The introduction looks towards the future of the post-pandemic city. 13 $1.30 Add
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Introduction
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Introduction

From: Messy Cities

Co-editor Dylan Reid provides an overview of “messy urbanism”, explaining the overarching argument of the book which is that this disorder is necessary for cities to thrive. 10 $1.00 Add
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Kick The Can

Kick The Can

From: No Place To Go

This chapter considers public toilet use and needs from the perspective of homeless people, and the effects of anti-vandalism measures. 20 $2.00 Add
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Kicking Up a Stink

Kicking Up a Stink

From: No Place To Go

This chapter examines the lack of attention given to public toilets in public planning documents, despite their importance to everyone. Lowe highlights a broad range of needs and relationships to … 23 $2.30 Add
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King Car:

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 … 19 $1.90 Add
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Leave the Leaves
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Leave the Leaves

From: Messy Cities

Lorraine Johnson writes about the benefits of leaf litter to local ecology in residential areas, and the ways this essential habitat is endangered in cities. 7 $0.70 Add
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“Life Against the Dollar”
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“Life Against the Dollar”

From: Militants, Mobsters and Mavericks

From Militants, Mobsters and Mavericks: The Men Who Built Modern Toronto in the 1960s–70s 10 $1.00 Add
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Listening
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Listening

From: Living Disability

Jacqueline Valencia and Alexandria McDonough write about their relationship as mother-daughter and their experience commuting, particularly regarding Alex’s experience on the commute as an … ; 6 $0.60 Add
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Living Loud: The Migration of a Steelpan Soundtrack
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Living Loud: The Migration of a Steelpan Soundtrack

From: Messy Cities

Leslie Woo recounts her family gatherings in Port of Spain, Trinidad. Woo compares the noise present in their busy neighborhood in Trinidad to the lack of noise in Toronto. 5 $0.50 Add
Local Government in Practice
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Local Government in Practice

Cases in Governance, Planning and Policy

Local Government in Practice: Cases in Governance, Planning, and Policy equips students to effectively deal with contemporary challenges within local government. Through a series of … 330 View
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Locked down

Locked down

Reimagining access for marginalized people

From: Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars?

Chapter six of Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars? considers the issue of access for marginalized people relating to the three automobility revolutions, and argues that these coming trends do not … 20 $2.00 Add
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Losing Your Bicycle
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Losing Your Bicycle

Chapter 5

From: Every Cyclist’s Guide to Canadian Law

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 … 20 $2.00 Add
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Manufacturing automobility

Manufacturing automobility

The anti-transit underpinnings of the “three revolutions”

From: Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars?

The second chapter of Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars? outlines, defines and unpacks the implications of the three revolutions of automobility on the future of equitable public transit. The … 14 $1.40 Add
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Masters in their Own House

Masters in their Own House

From: Charging Ahead

This chapter explores Hydro-Quebec’s relationships with Quebec’s Indigenous communities (such as Quebec’s Cree, Inuit, and Innu communities), and the history of these relations. ; 19 $1.90 Add
Messy Cities
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Messy Cities

Why We Can't Plan Everything

Featuring forty-three essays by a range of writers from around the world, this book highlights the role of messy urbanism in enabling creativity, enterprise, and grassroots initiatives to … 338 View