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Bulls Markets: Chicago’s Basketball Business and the New Inequality
Full text linkBook review by Duane W. Rockerbie of Bulls Markets: Chicago’s Basketball Business and the New Inequality, author Sean Dinces
Leaders in the Shadows: The Leadership Qualities of Municipal Chief Administrative Officers
Full text linkBook review of Leaders in the Shadows: The Leadership Qualities of Municipal Chief Administrativ
Remaking the Rust Belt: The Postindustrial Transformation of North America
Full text linkBook review by Maxwell Hartt of Remaking the Rust Belt: The Postindustrial Transformation of North America, Tracy Neumann author
The Political Life of Urban Streetscapes: Naming, Politics, and Place
Full text linkBook review by Sergei Basik of The Political Life of Urban Streetscapes: Naming, Politics, and Place, edited by Reuben Rose-Redwood, Derek Alderman and Maoz Azaryahu
Defending Suburbia: Exploring the Use of Defensive Urban Design Outside of the City Centre
Full text linkDefensive urban design, also known as hostile, unpleasant, or exclusionary architecture is an intentional designstrategy that uses elements of the built environment to guide or restrict behaviour in urban space as a form ofcrime prevention, protection of property, or order maintenance. It often targets people who use or rely on publicspace more than others, like people who are homeless and youth, by restricting the behaviours they engage in.From benches specially designed to prevent lying down to the addition of elements that are meant to deterskateboarding, forms of defensive design vary according to the behaviour it is intended to restrict. While muchof the current research on the subject privileges the urban centre as the site of research, this paper expands thefocus from the centre to the periphery. Taking two public spaces in Toronto’s inner suburb of North York as astarting point, this paper examines how defensive urban design is used regulate, control, and maintain publicspace outside of the city centre.Le design urbain défensif, également connue sous le nom d’architecture hostile, désagréable ou d’exclusion, estune stratégie de conception intentionnelle qui utilise des éléments de l’environnement bâti pour orienter ourestreindre les comportements dans l’espace urbain. Ce dernier se présente comme une forme de préventiondu crime, de protection de la propriété ou de maintien de l’ordre. Le design urbain défensif cible souvent lespersonnes qui utilisent ou dépendent davantage de l’espace public que d’autres, comme les sans-abri et les jeunes,en limitant leurs comportements. Des bancs spécialement conçus pour empêcher de s’étendre, de même quedivers éléments destinés à décourager la planche à roulette, les formes de design défensif varient en fonction ducomportement qu’elle est censée restreindre. Une grande partie de la recherche actuelle sur ce sujet privilégie lecentre urbain en tant que site de recherche. Or, cet article élargit la portée du centre à la périphérie. Cet articleexamine deux espaces publics situés dans la banlieue torontoise de North York afi n d’illustrer comment le designurbain défensif est utilisé pour contrôler et maintenir les espaces publics en dehors du centre-ville
Cartographies of Place: Navigating the Urban
Full text linkBook Review of Cartographies of Place: Navigating the Urban
The Housing and Economic Experiences of Immigrants in U.S. and Canadian Cities
Full text linkBook review of The Housing and Economic Experiences of Immigrants in U.S. and Canadian Cities. Teixeira, Carlos (author, editor) and Wei Li (editor)
City Size and Academic Focus: Exploring Trends in Canadian Urban Geography, Planning and Policy Literature
Full text linkBetween 1996 and 2001 almost half of the cities in Canada lost population. This uneven pattern of growthprompted an examination of the English-language urban geography, planning and policy-related academicliterature, which determined that Canadian urban academic journals fixated on large, growing metropolitanareas. Revisiting this literature a decade later, large cities have continued to dominate the academic discourse. Although articles dedicated to smaller and mid-sized cities are still relatively underrepresented in the literature, research focusing on more than one size of urban area has grown tremendously refl ecting an emerging interest in regional connectivity and a rise in the perception of urban areas as systems, rather than individual entities
Urban Encounters: Art and the Public
Full text linkThomas-Bernard Kenniff's review of the book titled Urban Encounters: Art and the Public edited by Martha Radice and Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier
The Ever-Shrinking Condo
Full text linkBetween 2005 and 2010, the average size of a new condo oscillated between 875 and 925 square feet (Perkins2014). By 2015, a new condo average size is 797 square feet according to RealNet Canada. During this period, we witnessed in Vancouver, Toronto and Montréal, the rise of the micro-condo, which varies, from 226 square feet to 395 square feet. This article examines potential economic, demographic and cultural causes and consequences of the rise of micro-condos and their impact on the urban landscape and public space.
RésuméEntre 2005 et 2010, la taille moyenne d’un nouveau condo a oscillé entre 875 et 925 pieds carrés (Perkins,2014). Par l’an 2015, la taille moyenne d’un nouveau condo est de 797 pieds carrés selon RealNet Canada. Aucours de cette période, nous assistons à Vancouver, Toronto et Montréal à l’essor du micro-condo, qui varie de 226 pieds carrés à 395 pieds carrés. Cet article examine les causes potentielles et conséquences économiques, démographiques et culturelles de la montée en des micro-condos et son impact sur le paysage urbain et l’espace public