2025
Showing 129–144 of 164 results
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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  NEW! RenegadesFrom: Seven Days in Halifax |
In this chapter, Ashe explains how a key provincial government official sought economic revitalization via an invervention by a panel of outside experts. | Robert Ashe | 6 | 2025 | $0.60 Add |
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From NEW! Ritual HorrorFrom: Seven Days in Halifax |
In this chapter, Ashe describes the events of Day Two of “Encounter on Urban Environment,” discussing the proposed amalgamation of Halifax, Dartmouth, and surrounding rural areas. … | Robert Ashe | 14 | 2025 | $1.40 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 NEW! ScareFrom: Seven Days in Halifax |
In this chapter, Ashe describes the events of the final live TV session of Halifax’s 1970 “Encounter on Urban Environment,” as panelists prepared for their final presentation. … | Robert Ashe | 10 | 2025 | $1.00 Add |
 NEW! Searching for SerafimThe Life and Legacy of Serafim "Joe" Fortes |
In Searching for Serafim, author Ruby Smith Díaz seeks to unravel the complicated legacy of a local legend Serafim "Joe" Fortes. She draws from historical documents to form an … | Ruby Smith Diaz | 144 | 2025 | View |
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NEW! Seven Days in HalifaxWhen citizens confronted the racists, liars and incompetents who ran their city |
Halifax today lives with the results of bad decisions made decades ago. A container port accessible only through narrow downtown streets. A park, bridge and port on the spot where Africville was … | Robert Ashe | 338 | 2025 | View |
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From NEW! Sports and SpacesFrom: Messy Cities |
Perry King writes about the public spaces utilized for sports in urban cities such as the multi-purpose sports courts housed beneath highways in Navi, Mumbai. | Dylan Reid | 6 | 2025 | $0.60 Add |
 Targeting LibyaHow Canada went from building public works to bombing an oil-rich country and creating chaos for its citizens |
In Targeting Libya, investigative journalist Owen Schalk examines how Canadian business and government actors influenced Libya’s fate, from the rise and fall of Muammar Qadhafi to the … | Owen Schalk | 258 | 2025 | View |
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From NEW! The Ballet of the Parking LotFrom: Messy Cities |
Brendan Stewart and Daniel Rotsztain write about the plazaPOPS initiative in Etobicoke North to illustrate the vibrancy of community life that strip malls generate and how these plazas can be … | Dylan Reid | 9 | 2025 | $0.90 Add |
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From NEW! The Canada-Libya thawFrom: Targeting Libya |
In this chapter Canadian prime minister Paul Martin’s 2004 tent meeting with Qadhafi symbolized how Canadian diplomacy, corporate interests (especially SNC-Lavalin and oil firms), and … | Owen Schalk | 6 | 2025 | $0.60 Add |
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From NEW! The Case Against Controlling InfrastructureFrom: Messy Cities |
Andrés Borthagaray writes that a combination of messy and orderly urbanism produces beneficial interaction, and uses examples of mobility infrastructure to illustrate their point. | Dylan Reid | 5 | 2025 | $0.50 Add |
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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 House on Portland StreetFrom: Seven Days in Halifax |
In this chapter, Ashe describes events of Day Five of Halifax’s 1970 “Encounter on Urban Environment,” on community policing. He recounts an incident where Dartmouth’s … | Robert Ashe | 5 | 2025 | $0.50 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 |
