Cities and towns
- Author:Davis, MikeSummary:
- Author:Malla, PashaSummary:
Shortlisted for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, and selected as an Amazon.ca Best Book It's the Silver Jubilee of People Park, an urban experiment conceived by a radical mayor and zealously policed by the testosterone-powered New...
- Author:McLennan, DavidSummary:
This is a guided tour of 725 Saskatchewan communities, based on the author's extensive travel throughout the province. The entry for each community includes its history, origin of its name, origins of the original settlers and its...
- Author:Dawson, JoanSummary:
Beaubassin was once a prosperous farming community at the head of the Cumberland Basin; Africville was the vibrant home of Black Nova Scotians who struggled to make a living and found spiritual solace in their church. Both are now gone...
- Author:Doyle, BrianSummary:
Winner of the IODE National Chapter Award, and Horn Book Fanfare Top Ten List selection. In this brillant and poetic novel, Brian Doyle returns to the Gatineau River near Ottawa, the world of his novels Up to Low and Uncle Ronald. Mary...
- Author:Gariépy, RogerSummary:
Au début du siècle dernier, l’Ouest canadien intéresse de plus en plus les bâtisseurs, promoteurs et autres aventuriers avec la construction d’un important réseau ferroviaire. Une petite ville au nord de l’Alberta, encore isolée de tout...
- Author:Dimmel, Brandon R.Summary:
For decades, people living in communities along the Canada–US border enjoyed close social and economic relationships with their neighbours across the line. The introduction of new security measures during the First World War threatened...
- Author:Kingsbury, KateSummary:
Melanie West and her grandmother, Liza, open a bed-and-breakfast inn on the Oregon coast replete with a friendly ghost, one very real skeleton in the closet, and a freshly dead body on the beach. It seems someone doesn't appreciate...
- Author:Hall, PeterSummary:
Drawing on the contributions of economists and geographers, of cultural, technological, and social historians, Sir Peter Hall examines twenty-one cities at their greatest moments. Hall describes the achievements of these golden ages and...
- Author:Hollis, LeoSummary:
Cities are where the twenty-first century is really going to happen. Already at the beginning of the century, we became 50% urban as a global population, and by 2050 we're going to be up to 70% urban. So cities could either be our...
- 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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"This completely revised fourth edition of Canadian cities in transition examines in depth the major transformations taking place in urban Canada - and the transformations that must be set in motion if the society is to survive....
- Author:West, Joseph A., Compton, RalphSummary:
John McBride is a former New York City lawman who's moved west to pursue a more peaceful existence. But easy living just isn't in the cards. And when a town sheriff with a Texas-size chip on his shoulder decides to make trouble, McBride...
- Author:Saunders, DougSummary:
A groundbreaking current affairs book documenting the largest population move in human history, as a third of the world's people migrate into cities, rupturing societies across the globe.
- Author:VanderMeer, JeffSummary:
The story of the sprawling metropolis of Ambergris is collected into a single volume.