Planning & Urban Development
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From  NEW! Packrat CityFrom: Messy Cities |
Tatum Taylor Chaubal connects her “packrat” collecting tendencies with her role and values as a city heritage planner, advocating for these roles to include preserving the “messy urbanism” of the past. | Dylan Reid | 4 | 2025 | $0.40 Add |
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From NEW! Painting the TownFrom: Messy Cities |
Dylan Reid and Leslie Woo discuss graffiti and its many qualities, and the case for street art in cities. | Dylan Reid | 8 | 2025 | $0.80 Add |
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From  Part 2: Sustainable Community Building BlocksTransportation Planning and Traffic Management |
Unsustainable transport systems not only are a major contributor to atmosphere change, but also lead to increasing congestion, longer commuting times, increasing demands for shorter work hours to … | Marc Roseland | 19 | 2012 | $1.90 Add |
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From Part 2: Sustainable Community Building BlocksLand Use and Urban Form |
Sustainable land use can help invigorate communities, and provide considerable environmental, economic, social, and cultural benefits. Redeveloping and reusing existing buildings and land can … | Marc Roseland | 21 | 2012 | $2.10 Add |
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From  Placemaking for CommunityFrom: Common Threads |
A “working landscape” in the city can be planned for use by the people who live there. Newly articulated land use options coupled with accessing the green waste from both invasive … | Sharon Kallis | 32 | 2014 | $3.20 Add |
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From  NEW! Planning for Access. Planning for Change.From: Living Disability |
Sarah Manteuffel writes about her experiences creating more accessible communities as a community planner, and describes ways for more inclusive planning practices. | Sarah Manteuffel | 7 | 2024 | $0.70 Add |
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From NEW! Planning for an Unplanned CityFrom: Messy Cities |
Jason Thorne argues for factoring in “messy urbanism” and its challenges into how we plan our cities and to move away from a more top-down approach to city-building. | Dylan Reid | 6 | 2025 | $0.60 Add |
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From  NEW! Planning Smart CitiesThe Dream of the Smart City From: Dream States |
The Dream of the Smart City: Part 3 explores planning smart cities. Topics discussed include transportation, census data, what is meant by urban ‘blight’, public and city … | John Lorinc | 15 | 2022 | $1.50 Add |
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From  Policing and Trust in the Hyper-Diverse CityFrom: Subdivided |
This chapter explores several democratic policing strategies, including the Prince Albert Model and the Los Angeles Model. | Nana Yanful | 21 | 2016 | $2.10 Add |
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From  Political Highs and LowsFrom: Charging Ahead |
This chapter looks at politics, evolutions in the energy industry, and Hydro-Quebec’s future. | Jean-Benoît Nadeau; Julie Barlow | 10 | 2019 | $1.00 Add |
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From NEW! Public Health in the Post-Covid EraFrom: Messy Cities |
Dr. Andrew Boozary writes about how the pandemic illustrated that public health and equity in Canada do not meet the standards many Canadians expect. | Dylan Reid | 4 | 2025 | $0.40 Add |
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From NEW! Rasta Cape TownFrom: Messy Cities |
Kofi Hope reflects on their experience living in Cape Town, South Africa, and how the Rastafarians they met there were messy urbanists: community builders, peacemakers, entrepreneurs, … | Dylan Reid | 7 | 2025 | $0.70 Add |
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From Reconsidering RevitalizationThe Case of Regent Park From: Subdivided |
Jay Pitter discusses the recent redevelopment and "revitalization" of Regent Park with Sandra Costain. | Jay Pitter | 10 | 2016 | $1.00 Add |
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From  Research Methods and DesignFrom: Resisting Eviction |
In this chapter, Crosby provides a methodological blueprint for doing research with social movements. He describes his work with the Herongate Tenant Coalition as political activist ethnography, … | Andrew Crosby | 13 | 2023 | $1.30 Add |
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From NEW! Satisfying Our Thirst for AgencyFrom: Messy Cities |
Colin Ellard argues that our desire for messy cities is connected to the desire human beings feel towards the complexity of the natural world. | Dylan Reid | 6 | 2025 | $0.60 Add |
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From  Seeking Strategic Pathways to Energy SufficiencyFrom: Resilience Imperative |
Our energy diet has put us between a rock and a hot place. On one hand, we are hooked on oil and demand is increasing. On the other hand, if we do not radically reduce our fossil-fuel use, we … | Michael Lewis; Pat Conaty | 19 | 2012 | $1.90 Add |
