The Toronto Neighbourhoods bundle presents a collection of titles that provide fascinating insight into the history and development of Canada's largest and most diverse city. Beginning with histories of Canada's longest street and the...
City planning
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Author:Osbaldeston, Mark, Berchem, F. R. (Hamish), Armstrong, Frederick H., Kennedy, Scott, Pitfield, JaneSummary: -
Author:Soderstrom, MarySummary:Taking us on walks through Paris, New York, Toronto, North Vancouver and Singapore, Mary Soderstrom examines how cites have changed the lives of ordinary citizens—in positive and negative ways. Making the city walkable again is crucial...
- Author:Jacobs, JaneSummary:
A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first...
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Author:Ward, Stephen V.Summary: -
Author:Summary:The history of planning is much more, according to these authors, than the recorded progress of planning as a discipline and a profession. These essays counter the mainstream narrative of rational, scientific development with...
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Author:Campanella, RichardSummary: -
Author:Summary:The town hall or city hall as a place of local governance is historically related to the founding of cities in medieval Europe. As the space of representative civic authority it aimed to set the terms of public space and engagement with...
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Author:Reilly, Kathleen M.Summary:Profiles the systems that work together to keep urban areas running safely, discussing how cities have evolved since the first riverside settlements while outlining projects that explain facts about transportation, water systems, and...
- Author:Lorinc, John, Springer, JaneSummary:
"[The Groundwork Guides] are excellent books, mandatory for school libraries and the increasing body of young people prepared to take ownership of the situations and problems previous generations have left them." -- Globe and Mail....
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Author:Macaulay, DavidSummary:Reveals the how and why behind some of the most fascinating and enduring structures humankind has ever created.
