Coach House Books

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Oscar Wilde's Type (in Toronto)

Oscar Wilde’s Type (in Toronto)

From: Any Other Way

An excerpt from Of Toronto the Good: a Social Study: The Queen City of Canada as It Is , 1898. 1 $0.10 Add
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Cry

Cry

From: Any Other Way

A poem from Michael Lynch’s collection These Waves of Dying Friends 1 $0.10 Add
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From St. Helens Avenue to Dewson Street

From St. Helens Avenue to Dewson Street

From: Any Other Way

Makeda Silvera recalls how she found community and acceptance on Dewson Street 3 $0.30 Add
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Packrat City
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Packrat City

From: 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. 4 $0.40 Add
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Painting the Town
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Painting the Town

From: Messy Cities

Dylan Reid and Leslie Woo discuss graffiti and its many qualities, and the case for street art in cities. 8 $0.80 Add
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Paper Pushers

Paper Pushers

From: The Ward

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Parking Lot 11

Parking Lot 11

From: The Ward Uncovered

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Pipe Dreams

Pipe Dreams

From: No Place To Go

The author details several creative, artistic ways various cities are acknowledging the need for accessible public toilets. 15 $1.50 Add
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Is Your Daughter Safe?: Reactionary Reflections on the Suicide of a Pansy

Is Your Daughter Safe?: Reactionary Reflections on the Suicide of a Pansy

From: Any Other Way

An excerpt from a tabloid covering the suicide of a man facing charges for indecent behaviour in 1930. 1 $0.10 Add
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Plague
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Plague

From: Encampment

This chapter outlines COVID’s continued effect on Toronto’s homeless population and how it contributed to the growing number of encampments around the city. 32 $3.20 Add
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Planning for Access. Planning for Change.
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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. 7 $0.70 Add
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Planning for an Unplanned City
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Planning for an Unplanned City

From: 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. 6 $0.60 Add
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Planning Smart Cities
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Planning Smart Cities

The 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 … 15 $1.50 Add
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Planting Permanence
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Planting Permanence

From: Living Disability

Shay Erlich explores the difficulties of living in Toronto, the problems with moving elsewhere as a trans and disabled person, and their dream of support being available to people like them no … 11 $1.10 Add
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Play

Play

Girls just wanna have fun. They're doing just that, and it's blurring the lines between therapy, porn, health care, mysticism and prostitution. Welcome to today's wild and shameless female sexual underground.

From: Closer

In this chapter, the author takes a broad tour of the wide variety of ways women are exploring and learning about their sexuality, covering orgasmic meditation, experiential sex therapists, the … 62 $6.20 Add
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Policing and Trust in the Hyper-Diverse City

Policing and Trust in the Hyper-Diverse City

From: Subdivided

This chapter explores several democratic policing strategies, including the Prince Albert Model and the Los Angeles Model. 21 $2.10 Add