Housing & Urban Development
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From  Changing Toronto’s Mind about DiversityFrom: How We Changed Toronto |
1978-1980. As mayor, I was able to use my larger podium to speak up, bring attention to and encourage public discussion of important issues. This chapter recounts a number of such instances. … | John Sewell | 23 | 2015 | $2.30 Add |
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From  NEW! Chaotic Unregulated Tokyo: The Quintessentially Messy City?From: Messy Cities |
Andre Sorensen argues that Tokyo is often praised by tourists as the quintessential messy city with no zoning laws, while Japan in fact operates strict zoning systems that are completely … | Dylan Reid | 6 | 2025 | $0.60 Add |
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From  NEW! Confronting Financialization to Prevent Homelessness |
In this chapter, Katlin Schwan asks us to consider how financialization, specifically the financialization of housing is contributing to the homelessness epidemic. Increasing rental prices, the … | Kaitlin Schwan | 12 | 2024 | $1.20 Add |
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From NEW! Turning Off the TapPreventing Homelessness for Victims of Violence |
Chapter Two discusses the pipeline for victims of intimate partner violence into homelessness. Author Pearl Eliadis discusses the lack of second stage housing, emergency housing, the need for … | Pearl Eliadis | 15 | 2024 | $1.50 Add |
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From NEW! How Is Incarceration Generating Homelessness and What Can Be Done? |
In this chapter, Art Campbell examines how incarceration leads to homelessness. By speaking with experts, using case studies and studying solutions he offers strategies to prevent this. | Art Campbell | 15 | 2024 | $1.50 Add |
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From NEW! Youth HomelessnessHow to Prevent It |
in this chapter author Cécile Arbaud looks at the many factors that lead to youth becoming homeless. Youth in care, youth experiencing mental health crises and their complex factors provide … | Cécile Arbaud | 17 | 2024 | $1.70 Add |
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From NEW! Preventing Homelessness among People with Mental Illness |
Chapter 5 tackles mental illness as it relates to homelessness. Examining the complex ways in which individuals with mental illness fall into homelessness and barriers that nonlinear or rational … | Eric Latimer | 113 | 2024 | $11.30 Add |
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From NEW! How a Shelter Can Prevent HomelessnessPrevention Services at the Old Brewery Mission106 |
George Ohana’s Chapter on shelters looks at how current shelters can adapt and evolves to offer solutions to end homelessness instead of just treating the symptoms. By looking at policy, … | Georges Ohana | 13 | 2024 | $1.30 Add |
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From NEW! Cities for Women and GirlsFrom: Messy Cities |
ElsaMarie D’Silva writes about the danger that crowded public spaces and transport potentially hold for female bodies, and that the chaotic nature of urban life can endanger vulnerable targets further. | Dylan Reid | 7 | 2025 | $0.70 Add |
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From  City of FearFrom: Feminist City |
Kern highlights the gendered danger women are exposed to in cities and everyday life, and the costs of these threats. | Leslie Kern | 27 | 2019 | $2.70 Add |
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From City of FriendsFrom: Feminist City |
Kern highlights the importance of female friendship and how these relationships shape the way women engage with city life. | Leslie Kern | 35 | 2019 | $3.50 Add |
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From City of MomsFrom: Feminist City |
Kern examines how the bodies of pregnant women change the way they are perceived in public. | Leslie Kern | 37 | 2019 | $3.70 Add |
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From City of OneFrom: Feminist City |
Kern explores how mobile digital technologies are essential feminist tools to urban survival. | Leslie Kern | 31 | 2019 | $3.10 Add |
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From City of PossibilityFrom: Feminist City |
Kern briefly discusses the many projects and movements in an effort to create a feminist city. | Leslie Kern | 13 | 2019 | $1.30 Add |
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From City of ProtestFrom: Feminist City |
Kern examines how activism and public protest can connect women to cities and feminist politics. | Leslie Kern | 30 | 2019 | $3.00 Add |
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From  NEW! Community Control of Public Housing |
In this chapter, the authors trace the 1970 to 1974 rent strike at Stella Wright Homes in Newark, New Jersey, where leaders like Toby Henry and Rev. Thomas Comerford won tenant management of … | Ari McCaskill; Peter Blackmer | 10 | 2025 | $1.00 Add |
