Housing & Urban Development
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 NEW! Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate DesignsIndependent experts analyze often-controversial schemes from Nunavut to Montreal to Toronto’s failed Sidewalk Labs waterfront scheme |
"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 … | 200 | View | ||
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From  NEW! Sports and SpacesFrom: Messy Cities |
Perry King writes about the public spaces utilized for sports in urban cities such as the multi-purpose sports courts housed beneath highways in Navi, Mumbai. | Dylan Reid | 6 | 2025 | $0.60 Add |
 Staying Alive While Living The LifeAdversity, Strength, and Resilience in the Lives of Homeless Youth |
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 … | 212 | View | ||
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From Keeping Healthy, Managing Risks |
Benjamin Roebuck; Sue-Ann MacDonald | 20 | 2018 | $2.00 Add | |
 SweetheartsThe Builders, the Mob and the Men |
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. … | 272 | View | ||
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From  Tangling with the PoliceFrom: How We Changed Toronto |
1978-1981. I realized quite quickly that this was an opportunity, however difficult, to begin questioning deep-seated biases — particularly racism and homophobia — on the part of a … | John Sewell | 26 | 2015 | $2.60 Add |
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From  Ten STeps to Preventing the Next Urban Water CrisisFrom: Dry Run |
In this chapter, I propose a 10-step program of measures that water activists can unite behind, from the immediately possible to long-term fixes that will depend on the water issues in a specific … | Jerry Yudelson | 20 | 2010 | $2.00 Add |
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From  NEW! Tenant-Organized Eviction Court Watch |
In this chapter, Carroll examines tenant-organized eviction court-watching in Portland, Oregon. | Colleen Carroll | 6 | 2025 | $0.60 Add |
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From  NEW! Tenants, a Social ClassFrom: The Tenant Class |
Ricardo discusses the socioeconomic characteristics of tenants in Canada and argues that they exist as an economically exploited social class. He examines the Canadian rental market by providing … | Ricardo Tranjan | 12 | 2023 | $1.20 Add |
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From  The Affordable Housing DeficitOut of the Cold From: Persistent Poverty |
Brice Balmer; Jamie Swift; Mira Dineen | 9 | 2010 | $0.90 Add | |
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From The Bahamas Adventure of C. Powell MorganFrom: Sweethearts |
1960s .The syndicate continues to refine methods of money laundering. Examines the Atlantic Acceptance Coorporation and its Bahamas hotel/casino developments | Catherine Wismer | 20 | 2014 | $2.00 Add |
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From NEW! The Ballet of the Parking LotFrom: Messy Cities |
Brendan Stewart and Daniel Rotsztain write about the plazaPOPS initiative in Etobicoke North to illustrate the vibrancy of community life that strip malls generate and how these plazas can be … | Dylan Reid | 9 | 2025 | $0.90 Add |
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From The Bargain BuildersFrom: Sweethearts |
1960s the development of new building techniques that maximized profits by decreasing the need for skilled labour and finding cheaper materials. There are also inter-union disagreements for control | Catherine Wismer | 12 | 2014 | $1.20 Add |
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From NEW! The Case Against Controlling InfrastructureFrom: Messy Cities |
Andrés Borthagaray writes that a combination of messy and orderly urbanism produces beneficial interaction, and uses examples of mobility infrastructure to illustrate their point. | Dylan Reid | 5 | 2025 | $0.50 Add |
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From  NEW! The Co-operative CityFrom: Civilizing the State |
The Co-operative City begins by looking at Spain in the twentieth century, leading up to the financial crisis of 2009-2011. The chapter then focuses on the 15-M movement as an experiment in … | John Restakis | 14 | 2021 | $1.40 Add |
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From NEW! The Collective Effervescence of Messy ParksFrom: Messy Cities |
Jake Tobin Garrett writes about how the pandemic broke previous understandings of public space for Canadians, specifically examining parks. | Dylan Reid | 7 | 2025 | $0.70 Add |
