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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From NEW! Packrat City From: Messy Cities View	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
From NEW! Painting the Town From: Messy Cities View	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
From Paper Pushers From: The Ward View		Ellen Scheinberg	5	2015	$0.50 Add
From Parking Lot 11 From: The Ward Uncovered View		John Lorinc	5	2018	$0.50 Add
From Pipe Dreams From: No Place To Go View	The author details several creative, artistic ways various cities are acknowledging the need for accessible public toilets.	Lezlie Lowe	15	2018	$1.50 Add
From Piss in a Bag From: Any Other Way View	Gerald Hannon describes a homophobic prank he witnessed as a closeted young man in Toronto in the 1960s	Gerald Hannon	1	2017	$0.10 Add
From NEW! Plague From: Encampment View	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.	Maggie Helwig	32	2025	$3.20 Add
From NEW! Planning for Access. Planning for Change. From: Living Disability View	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
From NEW! Planning for an Unplanned City From: Messy Cities View	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
From NEW! Planning Smart Cities The Dream of the Smart City From: Dream States View	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
From NEW! Planting Permanence From: Living Disability View	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 …	Shay Erlich	11	2024	$1.10 Add
From 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 View	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 …	Sarah Barmak	62	2016	$6.20 Add
From Policing and Trust in the Hyper-Diverse City From: Subdivided View	This chapter explores several democratic policing strategies, including the Prince Albert Model and the Los Angeles Model.	Nana Yanful	21	2016	$2.10 Add
From Policing The Lord’s Day From: The Ward View		Mariana Valverde	5	2015	$0.50 Add
From NEW! Potatoes, Beans, and a Reluctant Cook The Filling From: What We Talk About When We Talk About Dumplings View	Chantal Braganza reflects on her grandmothers ‘potato chops’, the Goan food of her father, the Portuguese influence on Indian food in the city of Goa, cooking as a gesture of love, …	Chantal Braganza	7	2022	$0.70 Add
From Preface From: Haircuts by Children and Other Evidence for a New Social Contract View	The author explains how he came to see the vital role of working with children in his life, after the first performances of the play Haircuts by Children, and how he hopes to inspire others to …	Darren O'Donnell	2	2018	$0.20 Add