Housing & Urban Development

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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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Fashion and Design in the Age of Digital Surveillance
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Fashion and Design in the Age of Digital Surveillance

From: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs

Chapter 12 explores the ways in which the public resists the implementation of smart city technologies 13 $1.30 Add
Feminist City

Feminist City

A Field Guide

Leslie Kern wants your city to be feminist. An intrepid feminist geographer, Kern combines memoir, theory, pop culture, and geography in this collection of essays that invites the reader to think … 216 View
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Flexible Streets
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Flexible Streets

From: Messy Cities

Dylan Reid writes about the accessibility of flexible streets for blind people, and the challenges that blurred boundaries between park, sidewalk, and street pose towards some pedestrians. 11 $1.10 Add
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Food Insecurity

Food Insecurity

A Source of Suffering and Ill Health

From: Persistent Poverty

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Foreward

Foreward

From: Sweethearts

Explains the process that led to the mafia finding a way into the housing industry. Also points to the fact that the book is an ethnic history where Jews and Italians sought to break the … 7 $0.70 Add
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From Corporate Honcho to Social Justice Worker

From Corporate Honcho to Social Justice Worker

From: Inner City Renovation

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From Mayor Crombie to Mayor Sewell

From Mayor Crombie to Mayor Sewell

From: How We Changed Toronto

1978. At this time, Mayor Crombie was angling for the Conservative Party nomination in a downtown riding, and he made it clear he intended to leave city hall for Parliament Hill as soon as a … 23 $2.30 Add
Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies
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Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies

From the author of the best-selling Feminist City, this urbanite’s guide to gentrification knocks down the myths and exposes the forces behind the most urgent housing crisis of our time. … 258 View
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Getting Down to Work

Getting Down to Work

From: How We Changed Toronto

Deals with his first years in office – 1969 – 1972 30 $3.00 Add
Good Places to Live

Good Places to Live

Povery and Public Housing in Canada

Public housing projects are stigmatized and stereotyped as bad places to live, as havens of poverty, illegal activity and violence. In many cities they are being bulldozed, ostensibly for these … 156 View
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Good Places to Live

Good Places to Live

From: Good Places to Live

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Guelph and Wellington County’s Urban-Rural Smart City Project
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Guelph and Wellington County’s Urban-Rural Smart City Project

Our Food Future

From: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs

Chapter 8 explores Guelph’s smart cities project, which seeks to use technology to bridge the urban rural divide and develop a sustainable network of food production and consumption 12 $1.20 Add