Housing & Urban Development

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Decolonizing the North

Decolonizing the North

From: 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 … ; 22 $2.20 Add
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Demoviction 2016: Domicide and Redevelopment in Heron Gate

Demoviction 2016: Domicide and Redevelopment in Heron Gate

From: 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 … 16 $1.60 Add
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Designing Out Disorder
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Designing Out Disorder

From: 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. 6 $0.60 Add
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Desire Lines in the Sand
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Desire Lines in the Sand

From: 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 … 9 $0.90 Add
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Dippers

Dippers

From: 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 18 $1.80 Add
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Discovering a Political Life

Discovering a Political Life

From: 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 25 $2.50 Add
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Dixie Road
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Dixie Road

From: 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. 6 $0.60 Add
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Downtown Redevelopment

Downtown Redevelopment

The Civic Square Project

From: Their Town

Hamilton, ON. 1960s. Civic Square. Development of the downtown Business over other People. 16 $1.60 Add
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Employee Journeys

Employee Journeys

From: Inner City Renovation

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Enclosures of Public Spaces and Infrastructure

Enclosures of Public Spaces and Infrastructure

From: 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 … 10 $1.00 Add
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End of an Era

End of an Era

From: 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 8 $0.80 Add
Ending Homelessness in Canada
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Ending Homelessness in Canada

The 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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Epilogue

Epilogue

From: Sweethearts

A brief accounting of what happened to the key players in these chapters after the 1970s 5 $0.50 Add
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Everything is Everything … But the Details Matter
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Everything is Everything … But the Details Matter

From: Messy Cities

Authors Alexandra Lambropoulous and Sami Ferwati argue that urban developments which ignore the local context of culture and socio-political dynamics will lead to failed urban spaces that lack … 7 $0.70 Add
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Surviving and Keeping Safe

Surviving and Keeping Safe

From: Staying Alive While Living The Life

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Families Matter

Families Matter

The Catch-22 of Poverty

From: Persistent Poverty

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