Since 2004, an average of three houses a day are torn down, many of them original homes built for the middle working class in the 1920s, '30s, and '40s. Very few are deemed significant enough to merit heritage protection, but they are...
Urban renewal
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Author:Atkin, John, Lau, Evelyn, Lazarus, Eve, Partridge, Stephen, Partridge, Elise, Mackie, John, Simmers, Bren, Gold, KerrySummary: -
Author:Delany, Samuel R.Summary:If one street in America can claim to be the most infamous, it is surely 42nd Street. Between Seventh and Eighth Avenues, 42nd Street was once known for its peep shows, street corner hustlers and movie houses. Over the last two decades...
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Author:Braxton, LisaSummary:It is 1971. The fictional city of Bellport, Massachusetts, is in decline with an urban redevelopment project on the horizon expected to transform this dying factory town into a thriving economic center. This transformation has a...
- 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...
- Author:Zoboi, Ibi.Summary:
Pride and Prejudice gets remixed in this smart, funny, gorgeous retelling of the classic, starring all characters of color, from Ibi Zoboi, National Book Award finalist and author of American Street. Zuri Benitez has pride. Brooklyn...
- Author:Laffoley, StevenSummary:
Following the Second World War, a new generation of politicians and planners across North America set out to reimagine their cities. With great verve and vision, they conceived of brave new urban landscapes filled with elevated highways...
- Author:Burgess, Joanne, Linteau, Paul-AndréSummary:
Le Vieux-Montréal est depuis longtemps un espace connu et reconnu, aussi bien pour les Montréalais que pour les visiteurs de l’extérieur. Faudrait-il en changer l’identité ? Que penser du projet de créer, à Montréal, un Quartier de l’...
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Author:Groarke, Leo, Humber, WilliamSummary:Short-listed for the 2012 Speaker's Award. One hundred years ago, the City of Brantford advertised itself as the most important manufacturing centre in Canada. During the century that followed, its industrial economy boomed, faltered...
