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Home Truths

Fixing Canada's Housing Crisis

By: Carolyn Whitzman

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Fixing Canada's Housing Crisis

By: Carolyn Whitzman

This is the book that Canadians must read to understand, and solve, our housing crisis. Hundreds of thousands of Canadians exist on the edge. Renters fear eviction, homeowners feel trapped, and both are vulnerable to becoming homeless with a single stroke of misfortune. Unaffordable housing in Canada is tearing communities apart. Rising prices force long-time residents to move elsewhere, while established businesses are forced to close their doors because they cannot find staff who can afford to live nearby. In Home Truths, housing expert Carolyn Whitzman explores Canada’s crisis from all sides, including defining what adequate housing looks like, explaining why nonmarket housing is crucial for Canada, and outlining how and why to tackle ever-growing wealth disparities between renters and those who own. She details the decades of policy that got us into this mess and shows how all levels of government can work together to provide affordable housing where it is needed, using evidence-backed ideas from planners, politicians, developers, and advocates at home and abroad.

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On Point Press

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077489072X

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9780774890724

The Handbook of Community Safety Gender and Violence Prevention

Practical Planning Tools

By: Carolyn Whitzman

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The Handbook of Community Safety Gender and Violence Prevention

Practical Planning Tools

By: Carolyn Whitzman

Violence and insecurity are among the most important issues facing communities in the 21st century. Both family violence and community violence are rapidly rising in the urbanizing nations of theSouth and richer nations are also facing increased concern about the health, social, economic and environmental costs of violence and crime. The Handbook of Community Safety, Gender and Violence Prevention is the first book to gather together research and examples, from a gendered perspective, of local, regional and international interventions that work to prevent crime, violence and insecurity. Case studies of successful initiatives from every continent, in settings that vary from large cities to rural areas, are analysed to provide cross-cultural lessons of what works and what doesn t. The book presents essential practical advice to professionals such as: how to obtain diagnostic information on incidence and impacts of violence; how to develop, maintain and evaluate policies and programmes that can effectively promote community safety; and how to create trust and effectiveness in partnerships.

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289

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Routledge

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1136553711

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Suburb, Slum, Urban Village

Transformations in Toronto’s Parkdale Neighbourhood, 1875-2002

By: Carolyn Whitzman

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Transformations in Toronto’s Parkdale Neighbourhood, 1875-2002

By: Carolyn Whitzman

A history of Toronto’s Parkdale neighbourhood, spanning three eras of suburban and urban development and examining the controversial planning practices that shaped it.

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439

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UBC Press

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077481537X

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9780774815376

Clara at the Door with a Revolver

The Scandalous Black Suspect, the Exemplary White Son, and the Murder That Shocked Toronto

By: Carolyn Whitzman

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The Scandalous Black Suspect, the Exemplary White Son, and the Murder That Shocked Toronto

By: Carolyn Whitzman

On the night of October 6, 1894, Frank Westwood was shot to death by an unknown assailant as he stood in the doorway of his home. Six weeks later, Clara Ford – a Black tailor and single mother known for wearing men’s attire – was arrested and confessed to the murder. But as the details of her arrest and her history with Westwood emerged, Clara recanted, testifying that she was coerced by police into a false confession. Carolyn Whitzman tells the story of a courageous Black woman in nineteenth-century Toronto and paints a portrait of a city and a society that have not changed enough in 125 years.

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0774890630

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9780774890632

The Handbook of Community Safety Gender and Violence Prevention

Practical Planning Tools

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1136553703

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Home Truths

Fixing Canada's Housing Crisis

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Clara at the Door with a Revolver

The Scandalous Black Suspect, the Exemplary White Son, and the Murder That Shocked Toronto

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The Scandalous Black Suspect, the Exemplary White Son, and the Murder That Shocked Toronto

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Suburb, Slum, Urban Village

Transformations in Toronto’s Parkdale Neighbourhood, 1875-2002

By: Carolyn Whitzman

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Transformations in Toronto’s Parkdale Neighbourhood, 1875-2002

By: Carolyn Whitzman

Suburb, Slum, Urban Village examines the relationship between image and reality for one city neighbourhood – Toronto’s Parkdale. Carolyn Whitzman tracks Parkdale’s story across three eras: its early decades as a politically independent suburb of the industrial city; its half-century of ostensible decline toward becoming a slum; and a post-industrial period of transformation into a revitalized urban village. This book also shows how Parkdale’s image influenced planning policy for the neighbourhood, even when the prevailing image of Parkdale had little to do with the actual social conditions there. Whitzman demonstrates that this misunderstanding of social conditions had discriminatory effects. For example, even while Parkdale’s reputation as a gentrified area grew in the post-sixties era, the overall health and income of the neighbourhood’s residents was in fact decreasing, and the area attracted media coverage as a “dumping ground” for psychiatric outpatients. Parkdale’s changing image thus stood in stark contrast to its real social conditions. Nevertheless, this image became a self-fulfilling prophecy, as it contributed to increasingly skewed planning practices for Parkdale in the late twentieth century. This rich and detailed history of a neighbourhood’s actual conditions, imaginary connotations, and planning policies will appeal to scholars and students in urban studies, planning, and geography, as well as to general readers interested in Toronto and Parkdale’s urban history.

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0774858834

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Home Truths

Home Truths

The Handbook of Community Safety Gender and Violence Prevention

The Handbook of Community Safety Gender and Violence Prevention

Suburb, Slum, Urban Village

Suburb, Slum, Urban Village

Clara at the Door with a Revolver

Clara at the Door with a Revolver

The Handbook of Community Safety Gender and Violence Prevention

The Handbook of Community Safety Gender and Violence Prevention

Home Truths

Home Truths

Clara at the Door with a Revolver

Clara at the Door with a Revolver

Suburb, Slum, Urban Village

Suburb, Slum, Urban Village

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