2025
Showing 81–96 of 164 results
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From ![]() NEW! FireFrom: Encampment |
Helwig describes how extreme cold alerts affect Toronto’s homeless population, including increased incidences of encampment fires. | Maggie Helwig | 18 | 2025 | $1.80 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Fisherman’s SonFrom: Seven Days in Halifax |
In this chapter, Ashe describes the events of Day Four of Halifax’s 1970 “Encounter on Urban Environment,” focusing on students. Discussions highlighted racist and classist … | Robert Ashe | 4 | 2025 | $0.40 Add |
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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 ![]() NEW! ForewordFrom: Targeting Libya |
This chapter argues that Canada’s little analyzed role in the 20011 NATO-led war on Libya reveals a foreign policy that is driven by corporate interests and geopolitical advantage,despite … | Owen Schalk | 3 | 2025 | $0.30 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Globalization and the end of an alternativeFrom: Targeting Libya |
This chapter explores the neoliberal agenda of the 1990s and how Canadian military interests aligned with those of the US around the globe while SNC-Lavalin grew in influence. In Libya there were … | Owen Schalk | 14 | 2025 | $1.40 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! GobbledygookFrom: Seven Days in Halifax |
In this chapter, Ashe describes the aftermath of Halifax’s 1970 “Encounter on Urban Environment,” specifically highlighting the experience of senior bureaucrat and event … | Robert Ashe | 6 | 2025 | $0.60 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! "He will not last long"From: Targeting Libya |
In this chapter Arab Spring protests in Libya, fuelled by inequality, corruption, and the Abu Salim massacre, rapidly turned into an armed civil war that Western governments both culitivated and … | Owen Schalk | 13 | 2025 | $1.30 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! HereFrom: Encampment |
Helwig discusses the dehumanization of homeless people in the city of Toronto and the difficult circumstances under which they must survive, including the limitations of shelter and affordable … | Maggie Helwig | 18 | 2025 | $1.80 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! HogwashFrom: Seven Days in Halifax |
In this chapter, Ashe describes the events of Day Five of Halifax’s 1970 “Encounter on Urban Environment,” focusing on welfare and income assistance. Discussions focused on … | Robert Ashe | 8 | 2025 | $0.80 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Homily for Christmas Midnight Mass, 2022From: Encampment |
Helwig highlights the importance of focusing on things such as love, light, and patience, and caring for the world just as the world cares for us. | Maggie Helwig | 3 | 2025 | $0.30 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! In a Tower of GlassFrom: Seven Days in Halifax |
In this chapter, Ashe describes the events of Day Two of “Encounter on Urban Environment,” detailing how officials interviewed by the panel (federal and provincial planners) addressed … | Robert Ashe | 12 | 2025 | $1.20 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Industrial Land’s Secret SauceFrom: Messy Cities |
Karen Chapple writes about the potential avenues for preserving existing messy but productive industrial spaces, while introducing innovation districts in cities around the world. | Dylan Reid | 9 | 2025 | $0.90 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Intellectual CoolFrom: Seven Days in Halifax |
In this chapter, Ashe outlines the regional planning initatives that took place in 1960s Halifax, in the context of economic decline, attempts at urban renewal, and the destruction of Africville. | Robert Ashe | 7 | 2025 | $0.70 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! InterruptionsFrom: Messy Cities |
Zahra Ebrahim discusses how the infrastructure of the formerly industrial street she lives on positively affects interactions with her neighbours. | Dylan Reid | 6 | 2025 | $0.60 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! IntroductionFrom: Searching for Serafim |
Ruby Smith Díaz shares her experience searching for images of Black Canadians throughout history and why she chose to research the life of Serafim "Joe" Fortes. | Ruby Smith Diaz | 6 | 2025 | $0.60 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! IntroductionFrom: Messy Cities |
Co-editor Dylan Reid provides an overview of “messy urbanism”, explaining the overarching argument of the book which is that this disorder is necessary for cities to thrive. | Dylan Reid | 10 | 2025 | $1.00 Add |








