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  • Displacing Blackness

    Planning, Power, and Race in Twentieth-Century Halifax

    by Ted Rutland ...
    Modern urban planning has long promised to improve the quality of human life. But how is human life defined? Displacing Blackness develops a unique critique of urban planning by focusing, not on its subservience to economic or political elites, but on its efforts to improve people’s lives.While focused on twentieth-century Halifax, Displacing Blackness develops broad insights about the ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Out To Defend Ourselves

    A History of Montreal’s First Haitian Street Gang

    by Maxime Aurélien, Ted Rutland ...
    This first critical history of a street gang in a Canadian city is a result of a four-year collaboration between a university professor (Ted Rutland) and the leader of les Bélangers (Maxime Aurélien). Out to Defend Ourselves tells the story of Montreal’s first Haitian street gang, les Bélangers. It traces how the gang emerged from a group of Haitian friends, the children of migrants from Haiti in ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

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  • The Just City

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    "The just city is one in which equity, democracy, and diversity are important considerations. This is in contrast with the city as growth machine. Fainstein examines three cities: New York, London, and Amsterdam. She provides a history of post–World War II planning and then focuses on fairly recent cases of development in each. Her goals, though modest, are important if growing inequality in urban ... Read more

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  • Justin Trudeau

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  • Razing Africville

    A Geography of Racism

    by Jennifer Nelson ...
    In the 1960s, the city of Halifax razed the black community of Africville under a program of urban renewal and 'slum clearance.' The city defended its actions by citing the deplorable living conditions in Africville, ignoring its own role in the creation of these conditions through years of neglect and the refusal of essential services. In the 1980s, the city created a park on Africville's former ... Read more

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  • The Prime Ministers of Canada

    by Jean Chevrier, Denis Daigneault, Gaétan Jeaurond, Jeanne Poulin, Gerald C. Gummersell ...
    Series series Canadian Leadership Collection
    The Prime Ministers of Canada is a unique work that features original essays by Canada's leading historians and is illustrated with exceptional archival images. The first in a series of books on Canadian leaders, it was first published in 2002 and now has well over 10,000 copies in print form. The fourth edition was published in early 2016 and is now available for the first time in digital format. ... Read more

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  • The History of Canada Series: The Best Place To Be

    Expo '67 And Its Time

    by John Lownsbrough ...
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    A pivotal event in Canada’s history For six months in 1967, from late April until the end of October, Canada and its world's fair, Expo 67, became the focus of national and international attention in a way the country and its people had rarely experienced. Expo 67 crystallized the buoyant mood and newfound sense of confidence many felt during Canada's centennial. It becomes clearer, though, as its ... Read more

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  • Readings in Planning Theory

    Edited by Susan S. Fainstein, James DeFilippis ...
    Featuring updates and revisions to reflect rapid changes in an increasingly globalized world, Readings in Planning Theory remains the definitive resource for the latest theoretical and practical debates within the field of planning theory.Represents the newest edition of the leading text in planning theory that brings together the essential classic and cutting-edge readingsFeatures 20 completely ... Read more

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  • Sorry, I Don't Speak French

    Confronting the Canadian Crisis That Won't Go Away

    by Graham Fraser ...
    As the threat of another Quebec referendum on independence looms, this book becomes important for every Canadian — especially as language remains both a barrier and a bridge in our divided countryCanada’s language policy is the only connection between two largely unilingual societies — English-speaking Canada and French-speaking Quebec. The country’s success in staying together depends on making ... Read more

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  • Municipalities and Multiculturalism

    The Politics of Immigration in Toronto and Vancouver

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  • What Is a Canadian?

    Forty-Three Thought-Provoking Responses

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