2025
Showing 113–127 of 127 results
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From  NEW! The Collective Effervescence of Messy ParksFrom: Messy Cities |
Jake Tobin Garrett writes about how the pandemic broke previous understandings of public space for Canadians, specifically examining parks. | Dylan Reid | 7 | 2025 | $0.70 Add |
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From  NEW! "The hottest of hot spots"From: Targeting Libya |
This chapter looks at the period of the late 2000s, when Libya’s uneasy opening to foreign investment exacerbated internal political battles while SNC-Lavalin courted the Qadaffi sons with … | Owen Schalk | 8 | 2025 | $0.80 Add |
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From NEW! The Just Society and the JamahiriyaFrom: Targeting Libya |
This chapter explains how during the late 1960s Pierre Trudeau continued Canada’s longstanding pattern of backing corporate expansion and Cold War anti-communism abroad. In contrast, … | Owen Schalk | 23 | 2025 | $2.30 Add |
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From NEW! The Mad DogFrom: Targeting Libya |
This chapter looks at Qadhafi’s radical reform program of the 1980s, which clashed violently with the US-led world order. As Libya used oil, arms, and support for liberation movements to … | Owen Schalk | 15 | 2025 | $1.50 Add |
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From NEW! The multipolar worldFrom: Targeting Libya |
This chapter examines Libya’s collapse into civil war and jihadist takeover while the US shifted its focus to containing a rising China and Russia, whose growing independence signaled a new … | Owen Schalk | 4 | 2025 | $0.40 Add |
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From NEW! The nationalization threatFrom: Targeting Libya |
In this chapter, SNC-Lavalin’s corrupt ties to the Qadhafi family deepened just as Libya’s relations with Western oil companies and governments took a turn for the worse. In Libya … | Owen Schalk | 9 | 2025 | $0.90 Add |
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From NEW! The Readable CityFrom: Messy Cities |
Shawn Micallef explores how visually messy cities are easily understood by walking the streets themselves, and draws on examples from Berlin, Toronto, and other major cities across the world. | Dylan Reid | 6 | 2025 | $0.60 Add |
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From NEW! The SNC-Lavalin affairFrom: Targeting Libya |
This chapter details how SNC-Lavalin evaded serious punishment for its Libyan bribery scandal through political lobbying and a plea deal in Canada, while Libya now lay in ruins. | Owen Schalk | 11 | 2025 | $1.10 Add |
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From NEW! These Walls, These RoadsFrom: Messy Cities |
Ameer Idreis chronicles the hardship of Palestinians living under Israeli control, but reminisces about his connections with the land. | Dylan Reid | 12 | 2025 | $1.20 Add |
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From NEW! Thinking Twice About ConsultationFrom: Messy Cities |
Lorne Cappe writes about his experience as a consultant on a supportive house project within Toronto, and the intense pushback he received in public engagement. | Dylan Reid | 8 | 2025 | $0.80 Add |
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From NEW! Tower Communities Are What We Make ThemFrom: Messy Cities |
Ajeev Bhatia explores the apartment tower communities in and around Toronto. | Dylan Reid | 3 | 2025 | $0.30 Add |
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From NEW! We Can Live With ThatFrom: Messy Cities |
Leslie Woo writes about the plan to evolve the Greater Golden Horseshoe region within Canada in the early 2000’s, and how bureaucratic short-sightedness eroded the plan’s potential and original … | Dylan Reid | 7 | 2025 | $0.70 Add |
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From NEW! What Is Safety?From: Messy Cities |
Kimahli Powell uses their experience with the Toronto-based charity, Rainbow Railroad, to explore what it means to provide a safe community for LGBTQIA+ individuals amidst a housing crisis. | Dylan Reid | 7 | 2025 | $0.70 Add |
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From NEW! Why Can’t We Sell Stuff Anyplace?From: Messy Cities |
John Lorinc discusses zoning rules that govern commercial activity, and the history of urban retail in cities around the world. | Dylan Reid | 8 | 2025 | $0.80 Add |
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From  NEW! WildernessFrom: Encampment |
This chapter explains the history of Toronto’s Kensington Market and the church, St. Stephen-in-the-Fields, that homes the encampment referred to throughout the book and for which Helwig is the priest. | Maggie Helwig | 12 | 2025 | $1.20 Add |
