Housing & Urban Development
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From  ConclusionThe Way Forward for Homeless Shelters in Canada From: Beyond Shelters |
Analyzes how the diversity of the shelterscape in Canada offers homeless people the right door into the services and programs they may need to exit homelessness in the shortest time possible. … | James Hughes | 13 | $1.30 Add | |
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From  NEW! Conjay’s First Walk HomeFrom: Messy Cities |
Tura Cousins Wilson and Shane Laptiste explore Little Jamaica in Toronto’s historic Caribbean community, and trace its history from the 1960’s to its imagined future in 2035. | Dylan Reid | 7 | 2025 | $0.70 Add |
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From  Creating Affordable Housing in Real NeighbourhoodsFrom: How We Changed Toronto |
1970s. One of the very significant actions of the new Council was to embark on an affordable housing program. This resulted in thousands of affordable units being built by Council’s housing … | John Sewell | 33 | 2015 | $3.30 Add |
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From Decolonizing the NorthFrom: Beyond Shelters |
Arlene Haché describes her personal journey from homelessness to leadership. She characterizes the disproportional representation of homeless Indigenous women requiring the services of the … | Arlene; Haché | 22 | $2.20 Add | |
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From  Demoviction 2016: Domicide and Redevelopment in Heron GateFrom: Resisting Eviction |
Chapter 7 examines the first phase of eviction and demolition in Heron Gate in 2016. Crosby analyzes some of the discourses surrounding demoviction, such as revitalization, relocation, and … | Andrew Crosby | 16 | 2023 | $1.60 Add |
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From NEW! Designing Out DisorderFrom: Messy Cities |
Cara Chellew writes about defensive urbanism, and the ways that attempts to control public space reduces its flexibility, threatening its social and political dimensions. | Dylan Reid | 6 | 2025 | $0.60 Add |
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From NEW! Desire Lines in the SandFrom: Messy Cities |
Wesley Lincoln Reibeling explains how desire lines symbolize the spaces that queer people have carved for themselves outside conventional planning norms in society, and uses Hanlan’s Point on … | Dylan Reid | 9 | 2025 | $0.90 Add |
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From  DippersFrom: Sweethearts |
1950-1960. Italian Immigration to Canada in the early 1950s their need to find work and finding jubs in construction. Explores the creation of unions for housing workers | Catherine Wismer | 18 | 2014 | $1.80 Add |
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From Discovering a Political LifeFrom: How We Changed Toronto |
Sewell recounts what brought him to getting involved in city politics and brings us right to his election as junior alderman in 1967 | John Sewell | 25 | 2015 | $2.50 Add |
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From NEW! Dixie RoadFrom: Messy Cities |
Fadi Masoud details how suburbs, like the ones on the edges of Toronto, are crucial entry points for immigrants, in spite of these spaces facing social and infrastructural challenges. | Dylan Reid | 6 | 2025 | $0.60 Add |
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From  Downtown RedevelopmentThe Civic Square Project From: Their Town |
Hamilton, ON. 1960s. Civic Square. Development of the downtown Business over other People. | Bill Freeman | 16 | 2016 | $1.60 Add |
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From  Employee JourneysFrom: Inner City Renovation |
Marty Donkervoort | 13 | 2013 | $1.30 Add | |
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From  Enclosures of Public Spaces and InfrastructureFrom: Think Like a Commoner |
The city is one of the most fiercely contested arenas for market enclosures. Public squares, parks, walkways, sports arenas and the very face and identity of a city are being taken over by a cozy … | David Bollier | 10 | 2014 | $1.00 Add |
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From End of an EraFrom: Sweethearts |
1970s examines the slow down of growth due to regulations that had been put into place and the choice of some companys to team up with US companies where there was still a boom happening | Catherine Wismer | 8 | 2014 | $0.80 Add |
 NEW! Ending Homelessness in CanadaThe Case for Homelessness Prevention |
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 … | 186 | View | ||
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From  NEW! Envisioning Collective Bargaining Rights for Renters |
In this chapter, the authors examine the Rent Strike Bargain campaign, launched in 2020, which seeks collective bargaining rights for renters in British Columbia amid a severe eviction and … | Pierce Nettling; Rebecca Kantwerg | 9 | 2025 | $0.90 Add |
