Housing & Urban Development
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From  NEW! Fashion and Design in the Age of Digital SurveillanceFrom: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs |
Chapter 12 explores the ways in which the public resists the implementation of smart city technologies | Car Martin | 13 | 2020 | $1.30 Add |
 Feminist CityA 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 … | Leslie Kern | 216 | 2019 | View |
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From  NEW! Flexible StreetsFrom: 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. | Dylan Reid | 11 | 2025 | $1.10 Add |
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From  Food InsecurityA Source of Suffering and Ill Health From: Persistent Poverty |
Elaine Power | 9 | 2010 | $0.90 Add | |
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From  ForewardFrom: 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 … | Catherine Wismer | 7 | 2014 | $0.70 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  From Mayor Crombie to Mayor SewellFrom: 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 … | John Sewell | 23 | 2015 | $2.30 Add |
 NEW! 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. … | Leslie Kern | 258 | 2022 | View |
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From Getting Down to WorkFrom: How We Changed Toronto |
Deals with his first years in office – 1969 – 1972 | John Sewell | 30 | 2015 | $3.00 Add |
 Good Places to LivePovery 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 … | Jim Silver | 156 | 2011 | View |
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From Good Places to LiveFrom: Good Places to Live |
Jim Silver | 7 | 2011 | $0.70 Add | |
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From NEW! Guelph and Wellington County’s Urban-Rural Smart City ProjectOur 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 | Ellie Ruggles | 12 | 2020 | $1.20 Add |
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From Gus Simone, OrganizerFrom: Sweethearts |
1960s. Unions and the switch to drywall, work in commercial construction | Catherine Wismer | 12 | 2014 | $1.20 Add |
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From  Heron Gate and the Financialization of Rental HousingFrom: Resisting Eviction |
Chapter 6 examines Heron Gate’s owner and landlord in more detail. Crosby takes a deep dive into the world of financialized real estate investment within a broader context of housing policy and … | Andrew Crosby | 15 | 2023 | $1.50 Add |
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From 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 Housing:Keeping the Faith From: How We Changed Toronto |
1970s. The reform Council may have been inventive and proactive in undertaking such an ambitious affordable housing program enabled by the federal and provincial legislation, but that program … | John Sewell | 16 | 2015 | $1.60 Add |
