Housing & Urban Development

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Part 1 The Social Enterprise Set Up and Management From: Inner City Renovation View Fernwood Publishing		Marty Donkervoort	16	2013	$1.60 Add
From Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks Greening the City From: Toward Sustainable Communities View New Society Publishers	Greening the city refers to strategies and techniques that protect and restore ecology within urban communities. It means a fruit tree-lined street, a creek meandering through an urban …	Marc Roseland	16	2012	$1.60 Add
From Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks Energy Efficiency and Renewables From: Toward Sustainable Communities View New Society Publishers	Canadians and Americans consume more energy per capita than any other nation. Environmental impacts of our consumptive lifestyles include ozone layer depletion, acid rain, smog, potential climate …	Marc Roseland	16	2012	$1.60 Add
From Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks Transportation Planning and Traffic Management From: Toward Sustainable Communities View New Society Publishers	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
From Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks Land Use and Urban Form From: Toward Sustainable Communities View New Society Publishers	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
From Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks Housing and Community Development From: Toward Sustainable Communities View New Society Publishers	Community development requires good urban design to foster connection and neighborliness, and programs, policies, and initiatives to encourage healthy human interaction, including safety, …	Marc Roseland	14	2012	$1.40 Add
From Part 3 Social and Political Issues Renewing Communities From: Inner City Renovation View Fernwood Publishing		Marty Donkervoort	10	2013	$1.00 Add
From Part 4 Context and Role The Social Economy From: Inner City Renovation View Fernwood Publishing		Marty Donkervoort	10	2013	$1.00 Add
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
From NEW! Planning for an Unplanned City From: Messy Cities View Coach House Books	Jason Thorne argues for factoring in “messy urbanism” and its challenges into how we plan our cities and to move away from a more top-down approach to city-building.	Dylan Reid	6	2025	$0.60 Add
From Policies to Support Housing From: Scandinavian Common Sense View Baraka Books	Housing conditions can have major impacts on physical and psychological health; as such, efforts to reduce social inequalities in health include fighting for access to decent housing. This …	Dominique Côté; Marie-France Raynault; Sébastien Chartrand	6	2015	$0.60 Add
From Navigating Obstacles and Negotiating with Service Providers From: Staying Alive While Living The Life View Fernwood Publishing		Benjamin Roebuck; Sue-Ann MacDonald	19	2018	$1.90 Add
From Poverty and Health “I’m One Stumble from the Street” From: Persistent Poverty View Between The Lines		Brice Balmer; Jamie Swift; Mira Dineen	11	2010	$1.10 Add
From Poverty Makes Us Sick From: Persistent Poverty View Between The Lines		Dennis Raphael	11	2010	$1.10 Add
From Precarious Work How Lax Employment Standards Perpetuate Poverty From: Persistent Poverty View Between The Lines		Mary Gellatly	10	2010	$1.00 Add
From NEW! Preface and Introduction: What Didn’t Happen: The Case for Homelessness Prevention and A Framework for Homelessness Prevention From: Ending Homelessness in Canada View James Lorimer and Company	Editor James Hughes discuss the rapid increase of homelessness since the covid-19 pandemic. through this he outlines the need for a book of this type, to stop focusing on how to treatment …	Erin Dej; James Hughes; Kaitlin Schwan; Stephen Gaetz	30	2024	$3.00 Add