Housing & Urban Development
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From  Mitigating Harm to WomenFrom: Beyond Shelters |
Describes the development of the transition house movement in Newfoundland and Labrador and how these centres have become anchors for the protection and safety of women in their communities. … | 18 | $1.80 Add | ||
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From  NEW! Myths about the Tenant ClassFrom: The Tenant Class |
Ricardo examines societal perceptions of the average Canadian who rents property. Ricardo discusses home ownership as a staple of successful life in Canadian society and the cultural stigma … | Ricardo Tranjan | 14 | 2023 | $1.40 Add |
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From  NEW! The Selling of Toronto’s Smart CityFrom: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs Collection: Media and Society: Canadian Cases and Issues |
Chapter 1 explores the stakeholders who initially pitched the partnership between the city of Toronto and Google’s urban planning division Sidewalk Labs. | Blayne Haggart | 16 | 2020 | $1.60 Add |
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From  “A Very Hostile System In Which To Live”Aboriginal Electoral Participation From: In Their Own Voices |
- | Cyril Keeper; Jim Silver | 37 | 2006 | $4.81 Add |
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From NEW! (Pseudo-) Participation in Smart City PlanningSidewalk Labs’ Fraught Toronto Foray From: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs |
Chapter 2 explores the factors that must be present for a smart cities project to be responsible and effective and then asses whether the Sidewalk Labs project in Toronto met any of these criteria. | Andrew Clement | 16 | 2020 | $1.60 Add |
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From  “Because It’s Not About Creating New Housing!”Contradictions and Limitations in the Development of Regent Park From: Good Places to Live |
- | Jim Silver | 23 | 2011 | $2.30 Add |
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From  NEW! 4. Gentrification is about Money |
Chapter 4 focuses on the role of gentrification in the political economy of urban centres and how capital is tied to its continuation. Topics discussed include the example of Little … | Leslie Kern | 24 | 2022 | $2.40 Add |
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From Advocacy CentreFrom: Beyond Shelters |
Proposes that, while continuing to deliver essential services to men and women in states of emergency and providing assistance in finding and keeping housing, homeless shelters are well placed to … | 19 | $1.90 Add | ||
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From  Beyond a Bowl of Spaghetti:Lansky and Luciano From: Sweethearts |
1920-1949. Looks at Luciano and Lanskey who made their fortune during prohibition and how their operation entered toronto | Catherine Wismer | 13 | 2014 | $1.30 Add |
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From NEW! But What about the LandlordsFrom: The Tenant Class |
In this chapter, Ricardo responds to the misconception that the current housing climate has put landlords in jeopardy. Ricardo examines the differences and similarities between private rental … | Ricardo Tranjan | 13 | 2023 | $1.30 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  From Corporate Honcho to Social Justice WorkerFrom: Inner City Renovation |
- | Marty Donkervoort | 11 | 2013 | $1.10 Add |
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From  Neighbourhoods in RevoltFrom: How We Changed Toronto |
community reactions to development proposals in 1972 | John Sewell | 27 | 2015 | $2.70 Add |
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From  Paradoxes of Street Life |
- | Benjamin Roebuck; Sue-Ann MacDonald | 19 | 2018 | $1.90 Add |
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From  Part 2: Sustainable Community Building BlocksGreening the City |
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 |
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From  NEW! Research Methods and DesignFrom: Resisting Eviction |
In this chapter, Crosby provides a methodological blueprint for doing research with social movements. He describes his work with the Herongate Tenant Coalition as political activist ethnography, … | Andrew Crosby | 13 | 2023 | $1.30 Add |
