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Governing Urban Economies
Innovation and Inclusion in Canadian City Regions
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Today more than ever, cities matter to the economic and social well-being of the vast majority of Canadians. Canada’s urban centers are simultaneously the engines of the national economy and the places where the risks of social exclusion are most concentrated, making innovative and inclusive urban...
In Defence of Theatre
Aesthetic Practices and Social Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Why theatre now? Reflecting on the mix of challenges and opportunities that face theatre in communities that are necessarily becoming global in scope and technologically driven, In Defence of Theatre offers a range of passionate reflections on this important question.
Kathleen Gallagher and...
by Clarence Barber
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1958
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1958
This study falls into two parts. Part I contains a theoretical analysis of the relation of inventories and inventory fluctuations to the business cycle. It begins with a brief survey of the treatment of inventories in the literature of business cycles. Then a theoretical model of the economic system...
The World is My Classroom
International Learning and Canadian Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
International education and learn-abroad programs have received heightened interest in the knowledge economy, and universities are keen to create successful programs for students. The World Is My Classroom presents diverse perspectives on these experiential learning programs and ways of globalizing...
Ivory Tower Blues
A University System in Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2007
The present state of the university is a difficult issue to comprehend for anyone outside of the education system. If we are to believe common government reports that changes in policy are somehow making life easier for university graduates, we cannot help but believe that things are going right and...
The Soviet Wood-Processing Industry
A linear programming analysis of the role of transportation costs in location and flow patterns
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1970
Systematic study of the geography distribution of the wood-processing industry has received recent Soviet attention, yet the results have been disappointing. Soviet work has been descriptive and lacking in critical analysis of the location problem. In particular, there has been little, if any, attempt...
Learning and Teaching Community-Based Research
Linking Pedagogy to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Community-Based Research, or CBR, is a mix of innovative, participatory approaches that put the community at the heart of the research process. Learning and Teaching Community-Based Research shows that CBR can also operate as an innovative pedagogical practice, engaging community members, research...
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Obesity and the Limits of Shame
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2011
Obese individuals are twice as likely to experience heart failure as non-obese people. More than eighty-five per cent of type 2 diabetes sufferers are overweight. And in the United States, obese and overweight individuals make up more than two-thirds of the adult population. Public health organizations...
Dynamic Fair Dealing
Creating Canadian Culture Online
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Dynamic Fair Dealing argues that only a dynamic, flexible, and equitable approach to cultural ownership can accommodate the astonishing range of ways that we create, circulate, manage, attribute, and make use of digital cultural objects.
The Canadian legal tradition strives to balance the rights...
Urban Sustainability
Reconnecting Space and Place
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Given ongoing concerns about global climate change and its impacts on cities, the need for sustainable planning has never been greater. This book explores concrete ways to achieve urban sustainability based on integrated planning, policy development, and decision-making.
Urban Sustainability...
by John Due
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1966
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1966
The intercity electric railway industry in Canada, which began in 1887, ended in 1959. It was never a major industry but its role in the transition of Canadian land transportation from almost sole reliance on the steam railroad to dominance of the motor vehicle should not be overlooked. Professor...
Creative Margins
Cultural Production in Canadian Suburbs
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Suburbs can be incubators of creativity: innovative and complex, but all too often underappreciated. In Creative Margins, Alison L. Bain documents the unique role of Canadian artists and cultural workers in suburban place-formation and dismantles mischaracterizations of suburbs as cultural wastelands.
Creative...
Schooling for Life
Community Education and Social Enterprise
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2010
During the first decade of the twenty-first century, schools and communities find themselves struggling with concerns of youth violence, child poverty, and race relations in an economy mired in recession. In Schooling for Life, esteemed community educator Dale E. Shuttleworth brings his rich experiences...
by Edwin Guillet
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1968
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1968
From the portage trails snaking their way through the wilderness to superhighways carrying the raw materials and produce of an industrial nation, Canada's roads have had a romantic but long-neglected history. For the first time their development is described in this handsomely illustrated volume by...