Housing & Urban Development

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
Beyond Shelters Solutions to Homelessness in Canada from the Front Lines	This book offers essays by experienced shelter managers who address the future of the homeless shelter in Canada. This diverse collection includes contributions by leaders in the homelessness …		256		View
NEW! Ending Homelessness in Canada The Case for Homelessness Prevention James Lorimer and Company	Homelessness is at critical levels. This book identifies the causes and offers ideas about what it will take to prevent Canadians from finding themselves without a roof over their head. More …	James Hughes	186	2024	View
Feminist City A Field Guide Between The Lines	Leslie Kern wants your city to be feminist. An intrepid feminist geographer, Kern combines memoir, theory, pop culture, and geography in this collection of essays that invites the reader to think …	Leslie Kern	216	2019	View
NEW! Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies Between The Lines	From the author of the best-selling Feminist City, this urbanite’s guide to gentrification knocks down the myths and exposes the forces behind the most urgent housing crisis of our time. …	Leslie Kern	258	2022	View
Good Places to Live Povery and Public Housing in Canada Fernwood Publishing	Public housing projects are stigmatized and stereotyped as bad places to live, as havens of poverty, illegal activity and violence. In many cities they are being bulldozed, ostensibly for these …	Jim Silver	156	2011	View
How We Changed Toronto The inside story of twelve creative, tumultuous years in civic life, 1969-1980 James Lorimer and Company	By the mid-1960s Toronto was well on its way to becoming Canada’s largest and most powerful city. One real estate firm aptly labelled it Boomtown. Expressways, subways, shopping centres, …	John Sewell	349	2015	View
In Their Own Voices Building Urban Aboriginal Communities Fernwood Publishing	In Their Own Voices is an examination of the urban Aboriginal experience, based on the voices of Aboriginal people. It is set in Winnipeg’s inner city, but has implications for urban Aboriginal …		189	2006	View
Inner City Renovation How a Social Enterprise Changes Lives and Communities Fernwood Publishing	Inner City Renovation (ICR) is a much-heralded social enterprise in Winnipeg’s North End which has become an example of the potential for social enterprises to support people living on …	Marty Donkervoort	153	2013	View
Persistent Poverty Voices From the Margins Between The Lines	It’s a very short trip from the limousine seat to the curb. Jim Mann never missed a payroll for the dozen men who worked for his flourishing landscaping business he built from the ground …	Brice Balmer; Jamie Swift; Mira Dineen	184	2010	View
NEW! Resisting Eviction Domicide and the Financialization of Rental Housing Fernwood Publishing	Resisting Eviction centres tenant organizing in its investigation of gentrification, eviction and the financialization of rental housing. Andrew Crosby argues that racial discrimination, property …	Andrew Crosby	188	2023	View
NEW! Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs Independent experts analyze often-controversial schemes from Nunavut to Montreal to Toronto’s failed Sidewalk Labs waterfront scheme James Lorimer and Company	"Smart cities" use surveillance, big data processing and interactive technologies to reshape urban life. Transit riders can see the bus coming on a map on their phones. Cities can …	Alexandra Flynn; Mariana Valverde	200	2020	View
Staying Alive While Living The Life Adversity, Strength, and Resilience in the Lives of Homeless Youth Fernwood Publishing	In Staying Alive While Living the Life, Sue-Ann MacDonald and Benjamin Roebuck unpack the realities of living on the streets from the perspective of homeless youth. While much is written about …	Benjamin Roebuck; Sue-Ann MacDonald	212	2018	View
Sweethearts The Builders, the Mob and the Men James Lorimer and Company	Toronto was Boomtown in the 1960s. The city was growing quickly, gobbling up farmland for suburbs, pushing through expressways, knocking down neighbourhoods to make way for high-rise apartments. …	Catherine Wismer	272	2014	View
NEW! The Tenant Class Between The Lines	In this trailblazing manifesto, political economist Ricardo Tranjan places tenants and landlords on either side of the class divide that splits North American society. What if there is no housing …	Ricardo Tranjan	145	2023	View
Toward Sustainable Communities Solutions for Citizens and Their Governments - Fourth Edition New Society Publishers	The need to make our communities sustainable is more urgent than ever before. Toward Sustainable Communities remains the single most useful resource for creating vibrant, healthy, equitable, …	Marc Roseland	257	2012	View
From From: Persistent Poverty View Between The Lines	The Introduction describes the process by which the the Interfaith Social Assistance Reform Coalition (ISARC) gathered the material for this book through a 2010 social audit process that engaged …	Brice Balmer; Jamie Swift; Mira Dineen	5	2010	$0.50 Add