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  • Gaslights to Gigawatts

    A Human History of BC Hydro and Its Predecessors, Updated

    Collections series BC Hydro
    Newly revised and redesigned, this is the human history of the company that powered the development of the electric system in British Columbia—and in turn played an integral role in shaping the province.“A utility is a thing with a heartbeat—a steady beat of progress brought about not by water and wire, turbines and transformers, but by all the people who put our resources and equipment to the ... En savoir plus

    $26.39 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

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  • Triumph of the City

    How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier

    par Edward Glaeser ...
    **Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Best Book of the Year Award in 2011“A masterpiece.” —Steven D. Levitt, coauthor of Freakonomics“Bursting with insights.” —The New York Times Book ReviewA pioneering urban economist presents a myth-shattering look at the majesty and greatness of cities**America is an urban nation, yet cities get a bad rap: they're dirty, poor, unhealthy, ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • Frontier City

    Toronto on the Verge of Greatness

    par Shawn Micallef ...
    Toronto is emerging from an identity crisis into a glorious new era.It began as a series of reports from the civic drama of the 2014 elections. But beyond the municipal circus, writer and commentator Shawn Micallef discovered the much bigger story of a city emerging into greatness. He walked and talked with candidates from all over Greater Toronto, and observed how they energized their communities ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $13.99 CAD Maintenant $9.99 CAD

  • Makeshift Metropolis

    Ideas About Cities

    In this new work, prizewinning author, professor, and Slate architecture critic Witold Rybczynski returns to the territory he knows best: writing about the way people live, just as he did in the acclaimed bestsellers Home and A Clearing in the Distance. In Makeshift Metropolis, Rybczynski has drawn upon a lifetime of observing cities to craft a concise and insightful book that is at once an ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Walkable City: From Haussman’s Boulevards to Jane Jacobs' Streets and Beyond

    From Haussman’s Boulevards to Jane Jacobs' Streets and Beyond

    par Mary Soderstrom ...
    Taking us on walks through Paris, New York, Toronto, North Vancouver and Singapore, Mary Soderstrom examines how cites have changed the lives of ordinary citizens—in positive and negative ways. Making the city walkable again is crucial. The author looks to the future and suggests ways in which we can reorganize our lives and our cities. The idea that a city might not be walkable would never occur ... En savoir plus

    $8.69 CAD

  • Unbuilt Toronto

    A History of the City That Might Have Been

    Collections Livre 1 - The City That Might Have Been
    Unbuilt Toronto explores never-realized building projects in and around Toronto, from the citys founding to the twenty-first century. Delving into unfulfilled and largely forgotten visions for grand public buildings, landmark skyscrapers, highways, subways, and arts and recreation venues, it outlines such ambitious schemes as St. Alban's Cathedral, the Queen subway line and early city plans that ... En savoir plus

    $11.19 CAD

  • Dream Cities

    Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World

    par Wade Graham ...
    "An excellent and novel exploration of key ideas behind city spaces and the behaviors they engender." — Wall Street JournalFrom the acclaimed landscape designer, historian and author of American Eden, a lively, unique, and accessible cultural history of modern cities.Dream Cities explores our cities in a new way—as expressions of ideas, often conflicting, about how we should live, work, play, make ... En savoir plus

    $2.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Unbuilt Toronto 2

    More of the City That Might Have Been

    Collections Livre 2 - The City That Might Have Been
    Quill & Quire cited Unbuilt Toronto as a book filled with "well-researched, often gripping tales of grand plans," while Canadian Architect said that it is "an impressively researched exploration of never-realized architectural and master-planning projects intended for the city." Now Unbuilt Toronto 2 provides an all-new, fascinating return to the "Toronto that might have been."Discover the ... En savoir plus

    $8.09 CAD

  • Becoming Vancouver

    A History

    par Daniel Francis ...
    A brisk chronicle of Vancouver, BC, from early days to its emergence as a global metropolis, refracted through the events, characters and communities that have shaped the city.In Becoming Vancouver award-winning historian Daniel Francis follows the evolution of the city from early habitation by the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations, to the area’s settlement as a mill town, to the ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • How Cycling Can Save the World

    par Peter Walker ...
    Peter Walker—reporter at the Guardian and curator of its popular bike blog—shows how the future of humanity depends on the bicycle.Car culture has ensnared much of the world—and it's no wonder. Convenience and comfort (as well as some clever lobbying) have made the car the transportation method of choice for generations. But as the world evolves, the high cost of the automobile is made clearer ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • Shape of the Suburbs

    Understanding Toronto's Sprawl

    par John Sewell ...
    It is now impossible to understand major North American cities without considering the seemingly never-ending and ever-growing sprawl of their surrounding suburbs. In The Shape of the Suburbs, activist, urban affairs columnist, and former Toronto mayor John Sewell examines the relationship between the development of suburbs, water and sewage systems, highways, and the decision-making of Toronto ... En savoir plus

    $32.79 CAD

  • White Riot

    The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver

    par Henry Tsang ...
    Essays and photographs that document the anti-Asian riots of 1907 in the context of contemporary anti-Asian sentiment.White Riot: The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver exploresthe conditions leading up to and the impact of a demonstration and parade in Vancouver, Canada, organized by the Asiatic Exclusion League and the ensuing mob attack on the city’s Chinese Canadian and Japanese Canadian ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus