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Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
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" Happy City is not only readable but stimulating. It raises issues most of us have avoided for too long. Do we live in neighbourhoods that make us happy? That is not a silly question. Montgomery encourages us to ask it without embarrassment, and to think…
San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities

San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities

Michael Shellenberger

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|October 12, 2021

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National bestselling author of APOCALYPSE NEVER skewers progressives for the mishandling of America’s faltering cities. Progressives claimed they knew how to solve homelessness, inequality, and crime. But in cities they control, progressives made those problems…
How To Kill A City: Gentrification, Inequality, And The Fight For The Neighborhood
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A journey to the front lines of the battle for the future of American cities, uncovering the massive, systemic forces behind gentrification--and the lives that are altered in the process. The term gentrification has become a buzzword to describe the changes in…
Planning Toronto: The Planners, The Plans, Their Legacies, 1940-80
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If, as is commonly reported, actor Peter Ustinov described Toronto as "a kind of New York operated by the Swiss," what was he seeing? A metropolis born of successful civic planning or a jumbled kaleidoscope of differing visions and plans put in place over a time…
Subdivided: City-building In An Age Of Hyper-diversity
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How do we build cities where we aren't just living within the same urban space, but living together? Greater Toronto is now home to a larger proportion of foreign-born residents than any other major global metropolis. Not surprisingly, city officials rarely miss…
House Divided: How The Missing Middle Will Solve Toronto's Affordability Crisis
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A citizen's guide to making the big city a place where we can afford to live. Housing is increasingly unattainable in successful global cities, and Toronto is no exception - in part because of zoning that protects "stable" residential neighborhoods with high…
City Rules: How Regulations Affect Urban Form

City Rules: How Regulations Affect Urban Form

Emily Talen

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|December 16, 2011

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City Rules offers a challenge to students and professionals in urban planning, design, and policy to change the rules of city-building, using regulations to reinvigorate, rather than stifle, our communities. Emily Talen demonstrates that regulations are a primary…
Planet Of Slums

Planet Of Slums

Mike Davis

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|January 17, 2017

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The classic, brilliant, best-selling account of the rise of the world’s slums, where, according to the United Nations, one billion people now live According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the…
Indigenous Resistance and Development in Winnipeg: 1960-2000
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Good Places to Live: Poverty and Public Housing in Canada
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Demonstrating how public housing projects are stigmatized and stereotyped as havens of poverty, illegal activity, and violence, this study contends that the problems with which they are so often associated are not inherent but the result of structural…
The Role of Canadian City Managers: In Their Own Words
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