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'A book about London; in other words, a book about everything' Peter Ackroyd, The TimesWalking the streets of London, Iain Sinclair traces nine routes across the territory of the capital. Connecting people and places, redrawing boundaries both ancient and modern,...
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Penguin
Parution :
2003-10-02
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Surrounding all major cities in the United States are numerous smaller communities collectively known as suburbia. The most popular place of residence in America, the suburbs are peaceful and tranquil environments, where civility prevails and disturbances of the peace...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1989-01-26
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From the author of the best-selling Feminist City, this urbanite’s guide to gentrification knocks down the myths and exposes the forces behind the most urgent housing crisis of our time. Gentrification is no longer a phenomenon to be debated by geographers or...
Editeur :
Between the Lines
Parution :
2022-09-06
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Toronto’s Poor reveals the long and too often forgotten history of poor people’s resistance. It details how people without housing, people living in poverty, and unemployed people have struggled to survive and secure food and shelter in the wake of the many panics,...
Editeur :
Between the Lines
Parution :
2022-06-01
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Hamilton’s industrial age is over. In the steel capital of Canada, there are no more skies lit red by foundries at sunset, no more traffic jams at shift change. Instead, an urban renaissance is taking shape. But who wins and who loses in the city’s not-too-distant...
Editeur :
Between the Lines
Parution :
2021-10-04
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Leslie Kern wants your city to be feminist. An intrepid feminist geographer, Kern combines memoir, theory, pop culture, and geography in this collection of essays that invites the reader to think differently about city spaces and city life. From the geography of rape...
Editeur :
Between the Lines
Parution :
2020-01-08
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While cities like Winnipeg, Minneapolis, Saskatoon, Rapid City, Edmonton, Missoula, Regina, and Tulsa are places where Indigenous marginalization has been most acute, they have also long been sites of Indigenous placemaking and resistance to settler colonialism....
Editeur :
University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2019-10-04
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How did a social movement evolve from a small group of young radicals to the incorporation of LGBTQ communities into full citizenship on the model of Canadian multiculturalism? Tim McCaskell contextualizes his work in gay, queer, and AIDS activism in Toronto from 1974...
Editeur :
Between the Lines
Parution :
2018-07-12
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Winner of the City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize!Finalist
in the Trade Non-Fiction Award at the 2018 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!Finalist
in the...
Editeur :
NeWest Press
Parution :
2017-09-01
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Ecologies of Affect offers a synthetic introduction to the felt dynamics of cities and the character of places. The contributors capture the significance of affects including desire, nostalgia, memory, and hope in forming the identity and tone of places. The critical...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2011-06-13
Collection :
Environmental Humanities
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