The Queer Evangelist

By Cheri DiNovo & CM
Foreword by Kathleen Wynne
Subjects: Social Science, Gender Studies, Urban Studies, Biography & Autobiography

A queer minister, politician and staunch activist for LGBTQ rights, Cheri DiNovo went from living on the streets as a teenager to performing the first legalized same-sex marriage registered in Canada ...

Governing Cities Through Regions

Edited by Julie-Anne Boudreau, Pierre Hamel, Roger Keil, and Stefan Kipfer
Subjects: Social Science, Sociology, Geography, Urban Studies

The region is back in town. Galloping urbanization has pushed beyond historical notions of metropolitanism. City-regions have experienced, in Edward Soja’s terms, “an epochal shift in the nature of ...

A Propensity to Protect

By W.H. Heick
Subjects: Business & Economics, Economics, Social Science, Urban Studies, Sociology, History, Canadian History

For Canada the last century was one of great social and economic change: an increasingly urban population witnessed shifts from an agricultural to a mixed economy and from moderate to greater wealth. ...

Ecologies of Affect

Edited by Ondine Park, Rob Shields, and Tonya K. Davidson
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Ethnography, Social Science, Urban Studies
Series: Environmental Humanities

Ecologies of Affect offers a synthetic introduction to the felt dynamics of cities and the character of places. The contributors capture the significance of affects including desire, nostalgia, memory, ...

Aboriginal Peoples in Canadian Cities

Edited by Craig Proulx & Heather A. Howard
Subjects: Social Science, Urban Studies, Indigenous Studies
Series: Indigenous Studies

Since the 1970s, Aboriginal people have been more likely to live in Canadian cities than on reserves or in rural areas. Aboriginal rural-to-urban migration and the development of urban Aboriginal communities ...

Rites of Way

Edited by Mark Kingwell & Patrick Turmel
Subjects: Social Science, Urban Studies, Art, Cultural Studies
Series: Canadian Commentaries

There are many ways to approach the subject of public space: the threats posed to it by surveillance and visual pollution; the joys it offers of stimulation and excitement, of anonymity and transformation; ...

Claiming Space

Edited by Cheryl Teelucksingh
Subjects: Social Science, Sociology, Urban Studies

Claiming Space: Racialization in Canadian Cities critically examines the various ways in which Canadian cities continue to be racialized despite objective evidence of racial diversity and the dominant ...

Kitchener

By John English & Kenneth McLaughlin
Subjects: History, Canadian History, Waterloo Region, Social Science, Urban Studies

The history of Kitchener is unique among cities in southern Ontario. Although Kitchener shares so much of the character of the region today, its past was considerably different. Until 1916, Kitchener ...

Problems of Change in Urban Government

By John Woods, M.O. Dickerson, and S. Drabek
Subjects: Political Science, Social Science, Urban Studies, Development Studies

In 1911 one of every three Canadians lived in urban areas; today three out of four do. This growth has raised serious issues in urban government: How should power and authority be distributed among differing, ...

The Invisible French

By Thomas R. Maxwell
Subjects: Social Science, Urban Studies, Emigration & Immigration, Multiculturalism, History, Canadian History

Since the Second World War, Toronto's image as a rather staid, predominantly British community, has been transformed through massive immigration into what has been aptly described as a "salad bowl" of ...