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Inside Public-Sector Innovation - How Local Governments Put Ideas Into Action

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 A practitioner-oriented volume featuring multiple innovations from rural, urban, and suburban Canadian governments of various sizes, Inside Public-Sector Innovation includes rich descriptions of local public-sector strategies associated with successful innovation at scale.
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Past, Present, And Future Of Canadian Cities - Where The Law Went Wrong And How We Can Fix It

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 In 1861, just a few years before Confederation, 84 per cent of Canadians lived in rural areas; today, it’s less than 20 per cent. Our municipal governments are asked to do more for their citizens than ever before, yet they must confront myriad challenges - from the public health pandemic to the housing crisis - without the tools they need. They have no constitutional protection from jurisdictional overstepping by provincial governments and no assurance that they will be able to complete any effort they undertake.The Past, Present, and Future of Canadian Cities explores the historical functions of municipalities, their current ability to tackle major problems, and what the future holds for shifting legal and political powers. This volume examines how pre-Confederation cities came to have their current constitutional and legislative forms; how current local governments make decisions within existing legal parameters, highlighting Indigenous-municipal relationships and emergency management; and, finally, looks to the world to investigate future innovation in municipal governance.The Past, Present, and Future of Canadian Cities makes the case that constitutional concepts must be repurposed to support the transition from nation-building to city-building in a global context.
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Cities And The Constitution - Giving Local Governments In Canada The Power They Need

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 Canada’s largest cities have faced exponential growth, with the trajectory rising further still. Due to their high density, cities are the primary sites for opportunities in economic prosperity, green innovation, and cultural activity, and also for critical challenges in homelessness and extreme poverty, air pollution, Indigenous-municipal relationship-building, racial injustice, and transportation gridlock. While city governments are at the forefront of mitigating the challenges of urban life, they are given insufficient power to effectively attend to public needs.Cities and the Constitution confronts the misalignment between the importance of municipalities and their constitutional status. While our constitution is often considered a living document, Canada has one of the most complicated amending formulas in the world, making change very difficult. Cities are thus constitutionally vulnerable to unilateral provincial action and reliant on other levels of government for funding. Could municipal power be reimagined without disrupting the existing constitutional structure, or could the Constitution be reformed to designate cities a distinct tier of government? Among other novel proposals, this groundbreaking volume explores the idea of recognizing municipalities in provincial constitutions.The first volume of a complementary pair, authored by renowned Canadian legal and urban studies scholars, Cities and the Constitution suggests contemporary solutions to one of our most pressing policy dilemmas.
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Voting Online - Technology And Democracy In Municipal Elections

by Helen A. Hayes, Nicole Goodman, R. Michael Mcgregor, Scott Pruysers e Zachary Spicer

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 In an attempt to reverse declining rates of voter participation, governments around the world are turning to electronic voting to improve the efficiency of vote counts, and increase the accessibility and equity of the voting process for electors who may face additional barriers. The Covid-19 pandemic has intensified this trend.Voting Online focuses on Canada, where the technology has been widely embraced by municipal governments with one of the highest rates of use in the world. In the age of cyber elections, Canada is the only country where governments offer fully remote electronic elections and where traditional paper voting is eliminated for entire electorates. Municipalities are the laboratories of electoral modernization when it comes to digital voting reform. We know conspicuously little about the effects of these changes, particularly the elimination of paper ballots.Relying on surveys of voters, non-voters, and candidates in twenty Ontario cities, and a survey of administrators across the province of Ontario, Voting Online provides a holistic view of electronic elections unavailable anywhere else.
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Political Engagement In Canadian City Elections

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 Municipal elections in Canada don’t look much like those held at the federal and provincial levels. A key difference is a significant discrepancy in voter turnout, but relatively little is known about why far fewer people vote in city elections.Voters show less interest in local government, seeing it as less influential than other levels, yet they believe their views matter more to local politicians. Political Engagement in Canadian City Elections explores this apparent contradiction by asking who participates in politics, how they go about it, and why. Drawing from the Canadian Municipal Election Study, a novel survey of electors in eight large cities across the country in 2017 and 2018, contributors consider factors ranging from the universal - such as the demographic profile of voters or how economic conditions affect them - to the specific - for example, participation in school board and council elections.There are more municipal elections than any other kind in Canada. The discoveries in Political Engagement in Canadian City Elections collectively represent a major leap forward in our understanding of voter activity at the community and municipal level.
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China'S Urban Future And The Quest For Stability

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 Assessing Chinese cities and urbanization in a time of slowing economic development, rising inequality, and unprecedented mobility.
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Shaping The Metropolis - Institutions And Urbanization In The United States And Canada

by Zack Taylor

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 How American and Canadian cities came to be governed differently â€" and what it means for the future.
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Neighborhood Politics Of Last Resort - Post-Katrina New Orleans And The Right To The City

by Stephen Danley

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 The fragility of social justice and democracy within place-based movements.
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Accountability And Responsiveness At The Municipal Level - Views From Canada

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 Are municipal governments democratic simply because they are elected?
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Toward Equity And Inclusion In Canadian Cities - Lessons From Critical Praxis-Oriented Research

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 Explorations of how research collaborations can address and advance social justice in cities.
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Order And Disorder - Urban Governance And The Making Of Middle Eastern Cities

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 An exploration of the dynamics between the state, the market, and civil society in Middle Eastern cities.
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Platform Economy And The Smart City - Technology And The Transformation Of Urban Policy

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 Over the past decade, cities have come into closer contact and conflict with new technologies. From reactive policymaking in response to platform economy firms to proactive policymaking in an effort to develop into smart cities, urban governance is transforming at an unprecedented speed and scale. Innovative technologies promise a brave new world of convenience and cost effectiveness - powered by cameras that monitor our movements, sensors that line our streets, and algorithms that determine our resource allocation - but at what cost? Exploring the relationship between technology and cities, this book brings together an outstanding group of authors in the field to provide a critical and necessary examination of the disruption that is under way. They look at how cities should understand and regulate novel technologies, what can be learned from proposed and failed smart city projects, and how innovative economies change the structure of cities themselves. Contributors dig deeply into these and similar subjects, contributing their voices to an important dialogue on the future of urban policy and governance. The first collection of its kind, this groundbreaking volume brings together social, economic, and cultural insights to enhance our understanding of the ongoing technological upheaval in cities around the world.
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Right To An Age-Friendly City - Redistribution, Recognition, And Senior Citizen Rights In Urban Spaces

by Meghan Joy

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 A detailed and timely examination, The Right to an Age-Friendly City offers both broad and tangible insights into the intermingled political, economic, cultural, and administrative changes needed to protect the rights of senior citizens to access urban space in Toronto and beyond.
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Big Moves - Global Agendas Local Aspirations And Urban Mobility In Canada

by Anthony Perl, Jeffrey Kenworthy e Matt Hern

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 Examining how transportation policy is not only shaped by global aspirations and local anxieties but directly linked to the successes and challenges faced by Canada's biggest cities.
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St Petersburg Dialogues - Or Conversations On The Temporal Government Of Providence

by Joseph De Maistre

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 A classic renowned for both its content and its French literary style that today still influences the direction of far-right conservatism in Western political thought.
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Truffaut Notebook

by Sam Solecki

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 Francois Truffaut (1932-1984) ranks among the greatest film directors and has had a worldwide impact on filmmaking as a screenwriter, producer, film critic, and founding member of the French New Wave. His most celebrated films include The 400 Blows, Shoot the Piano Player, Jules and Jim, Day for Night, and The Last Metro. A Truffaut Notebook is a lively and eclectic introduction to the life and work of this major cinematic figure. In entries as brief as a page, as well as in full-length essays, it examines topics such as Truffaut's mentors, the autobiographical nature of his films, his place in the film tradition, his film criticism, his reputation, his relationships with other directors, and the formal and thematic coherence of his body of work. Sam Solecki also argues for Truffaut's continuing appeal and relevance by examining his influence on filmmakers like Woody Allen, Noah Baumbach, Alexander Payne, Patrice Leconte, and Jean-Pierre Jeunet, and on writers such as Julian Barnes, Ann Beattie, and Salman Rushdie. Because the book returns regularly to the author's shifting responses to Truffaut's work over the last fifty years, it also offers an autobiographical meditation on his own lifelong fascination with film. Consisting of over eighty short entries and essays, as well as provocative lists, dreams, and quizzes, A Truffaut Notebook is an original and exciting text and a model of passionate engagement with cinema.
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City-Regions In Prospect? - Exploring The Meeting Points Between Place And Practice

by Alex Lord, Kevin Edson Jones e Rob Shields

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 Essays exploring the prospects of the city-region.
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On Their Own - Women, Urbanization, And The Right To The City In South Africa

by Allison Goebel

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 Cutting edge research on the contradictions of race, class, and gender in post-apartheid urban South Africa.
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Left And Right - The Small World Of Political Ideas

by Christopher Cochrane

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 The words "left" and "right" often signal a political divide in debates about topics as diverse as abortion, capital punishment, gun control, social welfare, taxation, immigration, and the environment. Despite claims that political polarization is in decline, its persistence suggests that it is inherent to our society. At the same time, variations in the perception of each side indicate that these labels do not fully capture the reality of ideological disagreement. In Left and Right, Christopher Cochrane traces the origins of this political language to the very nature of ideology. What is ideology, what does it look like, and how does it manifest itself in patterns of political disagreement in Western democracies? Drawing on five decades of evidence from political scientists, including public opinion surveys, elite surveys, and content analysis of political party election platforms, Cochrane employs a new method to analyze the structure and evolution of the left/right divide in twenty-one Western countries since 1945. He then delves into the central argument of the book - that the language of left and right describes a meaningful, perceptible, and quantifiable pattern of political disagreement that has persisted over time and around the world. Calling for an adjustment to the way we view Canadian politics, Left and Right opens a window into the world of political ideologies - a world we see every day, but rarely analyze, define, or agree on.
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City-Regions In Prospect? - Exploring The Meeting Points Between Place And Practice

by Alex Lord, Kevin Edson Jones e Rob Shields

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 Essays exploring the prospects of the city-region.
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Social Resilience And The Urban Migrant Experience

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 Social Resilience and the Urban Migrant Experience illuminates both the impediments to newcomer integration and the transformative capacities of newcomers to engage successfully in adaption and resistance.
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Social Resilience And International Migration In The Canadian City

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 Draws attention to disparities in outcomes for migrants and proposes strategies to enhance their participation in cities of all sizes. Focused on Ontario and Quebec, chapters pinpoint factors that affect the settlement and integration of immigrants, as well as growing numbers of international students, foreign workers, and refugee claimants.
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From Spinster To Career Woman - Middle-Class Women And Work In Victorian England

by Arlene Young

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 Challenging preconceived notions about femininity, respectability, paid employment, and middle-class ladies in Victorian England.
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Shaping The Metropolis - Institutions And Urbanization In The United States And Canada

by Zack Taylor

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 How American and Canadian cities came to be governed differently â€" and what it means for the future.
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