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  • Building a Collaborative Advantage

    Network Governance and Homelessness Policy-Making in Canada

    Homelessness is not a historical accident. We know that it is the disastrous outcome of policy decisions made over time and at several levels of government. Yet conventional theories in political science and public administration fail to explain why some approaches work while others fail.In Building a Collaborative Advantage, Carey Doberstein draws on network governance theory, extended ... Leer más

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  • Distributed Democracy

    Health Care Governance in Ontario

    Series series IPAC Series in Public Management and Governance
    The governance of health care in Ontario has long provided opportunities for citizens and stakeholders to participate, deliberate, and influence health care policy and investment decisions. Yet, despite providing opportunities for deliberation and influence amongst citizens, we don’t know how democratic the system actually is.Distributed Democracy advances an original analytical framework to guide ... Leer más

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    This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! Dorothy is a young girl who lives on a Kansas farm with her Uncle Henry, Aunt Em, and little dog Toto. One day the farmhouse, with Dorothy inside, is caught up in a tornado and deposited in a field in the country of the Munchkins. The falling house kills the Wicked Witch of the East. ... Leer más

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  • How We Changed Toronto

    The inside story of twelve creative, tumultuous years in civic life, 1969-1980

    de John Sewell ...
    By the mid-1960s Toronto was well on its way to becoming Canada's largest and most powerful city. One real estate firm aptly labelled it Boomtown. Expressways, subways, shopping centres, high-rise apartments, and skyscraping downtown office towers were transforming the city. City officials were cheerleaders for unrestricted growth.All this "progress" had a price. Heritage buildings were ... Leer más

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  • If Venice Dies

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  • Urban Sustainability

    Reconnecting Space and Place

    Given ongoing concerns about global climate change and its impacts on cities, the need for sustainable planning has never been greater. This book explores concrete ways to achieve urban sustainability based on integrated planning, policy development, and decision-making.Urban Sustainability is the first book to provide an applied interdisciplinary perspective on the challenges and opportunities ... Leer más

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  • Planning Politics in Toronto

    The Ontario Municipal Board and Urban Development

    The Ontario Municipal Board is an independent provincial planning appeals body that has wielded major influence on Toronto’s urban development. In this book, Aaron A. Moore examines the effect that the OMB has had on the behavior and relationships of Toronto’s main political actors, including city planners, developers, neighbourhood associations, and local politicians.Moore’s findings draw on a ... Leer más

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  • Floods in a Megacity

    Geospatial Techniques in Assessing Hazards, Risk and Vulnerability

    de Ashraf Dewan ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Flooding is one of the most devastating natural hazards in the world. Available records suggest that both flood frequency and severity are on the rise and this is likely to worsen in the context of climate change. As population, infrastructure and poverty grow rapidly in developing countries, particularly in urban agglomerations of 10 million people or more, floods could cause widespread ... Leer más

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  • Sustainable Communities

    Creating a Durable Local Economy

    Series series Earthscan Tools for Community Planning
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  • Model Estate (Routledge Revivals)

    Planned Housing at Quarry Hill, Leeds

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    Quarry Hill Flats, once both the pride and shame of its city of Leeds, was an iconic Modernist symbol of the 1930s. It marked the first use of a prefabricated building system for a large-scale council estate, replacing a notorious slum. But it lasted barely a generation – its complete demolition was announced as Alison Ravetz was finishing this study. First published in 1974, this book is unique ... Leer más

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  • Still Counting

    Women in Politics across Canada

    Still Counting explains why scholars and activists continue to count the number of women elected to Canada's legislatures, and demonstrates that, by any measure, women are only halfway to equal. The authors assert that an "electoral glass ceiling" is keeping women at or below the 25 per cent mark, restricting women to less than half of the seats that would be theirs in a democracy committed to ... Leer más

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  • Make Housing Central

    British Columbia and the Affordable Housing Crisis

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