Housing & Urban Development
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From  Working Harder Is Hardly WorkingFrom: Persistent Poverty |
- | Brice Balmer; Jamie Swift; Mira Dineen | 9 | 2010 | $0.90 Add |
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From  “We’re Not Goin’ Nowhere”The Case of Halifax's Uniacke Square From: Good Places to Live |
- | Jim Silver | 24 | 2011 | $2.40 Add |
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From  NEW! 5. Gentrification is about Class |
Chapter 5 focuses on the sexual politics and gendered elements of gentrification. Topics discussed include housing precarity, sexual harassment and violence from landlords, women with children … | Leslie Kern | 39 | 2022 | $3.90 Add |
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From  A Reform City CouncilFrom: How We Changed Toronto |
the 1972 election brought new blood to the city council and Sewell discusses how Larger decision-making bodies often hamper debate, but our council was of a manageable size. The openness and the … | John Sewell | 26 | 2015 | $2.60 Add |
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From  Agent of Social IntegrationFrom: Beyond Shelters |
Describes the history of Montreal’s Old Brewery Mission (an 125 year old shelter) and how it is working in concert with local psychiatric teams and housing agencies to create multiple and … | 19 | $1.90 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  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  NEW! Heron Gate, Racial Stigma, and Strategic NeglectFrom: Resisting Eviction |
Chapter 5 offers a profile of Heron Gate Village. Crosbys analyzes statistics on community demographics and housing. With its high concentration of immigrants, refugees, and people of colour, … | Andrew Crosby | 17 | 2023 | $1.70 Add |
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From  Keeping Healthy, Managing Risks |
- | Benjamin Roebuck; Sue-Ann MacDonald | 20 | 2018 | $2.00 Add |
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From  Part 3 Social and Political IssuesRenewing Communities From: Inner City Renovation |
- | Marty Donkervoort | 10 | 2013 | $1.00 Add |
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From Precarious Work: How Lax Employment Standards Perpetuate PovertyFrom: Persistent Poverty |
- | Mary Gellatly | 10 | 2010 | $1.00 Add |
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From  NEW! Privatized Policymaking on Toronto’s WaterfrontFrom: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs |
Chapter 4 explores how smart cities projects allow private companies to shape municipal policies to suit their own interests as opposed to the interests of the population. | Natasha Tusikov | 15 | 2020 | $1.50 Add |
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From  Sharing, Community and DecolonizationUrban Aboriginal Community Development From: In Their Own Voices |
- | Jim Silver; Parvin Ghorayshi | 41 | 2006 | $5.33 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  The New BuildersFrom: Sweethearts |
1950-1960. looks at the housing boom that occurred after the war due to the population swell. The decision to start building high rises | Catherine Wismer | 15 | 2014 | $1.50 Add |
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From NEW! 6. Gentrification is about Physical Displacement |
Chapter 6 focuses on the physical displacement of people, families, and communities through gentrification. Topics discussed include personal accounts of displacement, the connection between … | Leslie Kern | 34 | 2022 | $3.40 Add |
