A controversial and illuminating study,Gender, the State, and Social Reproductioncrosses the disciplines of politics, history, gender studies, and sociology.
Accidental wilderness Kehm, Walter H; Burley, Robert
Accidental wilderness,
2020, 2020, 2020-10-29, 2020-11-30
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Once referred to as Toronto's "accidental wilderness," Tommy Thompson Park is now recognized as a fortuitous urban miracle. Initially created as a landfill site on the city's rapidly developing ...waterfront, the park's physical and ecological footprint have grown dramatically. Forests, grasslands, and wildlife now thrive -- all within a stone's throw of some of the most densely populated areas of North America's fourth-largest city. Accidental Wilderness is a rich and lyrical collection of essays curated by internationally recognized landscape architect and original designer of Tommy Thompson Park, Walter H. Kehm, complemented by a stunning collection of photographs by renowned landscape photographer Robert Burley. The book explores the city's port origins; the park's master plan principles and design; the native-plant succession process; the park's unique flora and fauna; public advocacy; and public recreation in the park and its effect on mental, physical, and spiritual health. In an era where the looming dangers associated with climate change affect our daily lives, Tommy Thompson Park offers a hopeful narrative about how nature can flourish in, and contribute to, the well-being of twenty-first-century cities.
Planning politics in Toronto Moore, Aaron Alexander
Planning politics in Toronto,
c2013, 2013, 2013-03-11, 2013-02-26, 20130101
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A much-needed contribution to the literature on the politics of urban development in Toronto since the 1970s, Planning Politics in Toronto challenges popular preconceptions of the OMB's role in ...Toronto's patterns of growth and change.
In the 1960s, socialist and capitalist urban planners, architects, and city officials chose the urban periphery as the site to test out new ideas in modernist architecture and planning: the outskirts ...of Prague and a bedroom suburb of Toronto would be the sites for experimental urban development. In the Suburbs of History overcomes the divisions between East and West to reassemble the shared histories of modern architecture and urbanism as it shaped and re-shaped the periphery. Drawing on archives, interviews, architectural journals, and site visits to the peripheries of Prague and Toronto, Steven Logan reveals the intertwined histories of capitalist and socialist urban planning. From socialist utopias to the capitalist visions of the edge city, the history of the suburbs is not simply a history of competing urban forms; rather, it is a history of alternatives that advocated collective solutions over the dominant model of single-family home ownership and car-dominated spaces.
Canada has seen the study of Islamic art and archeology grow steadily over the last five decades, with growth in research and teaching across numerous Canadian universities as well as important ...collections of Islamic art and archaeological materials, most notably at the Royal Ontario Museum and the Aga Khan Museum. Made for the Eye of One Who Sees uncovers the contributions of scholars and museum curators at Canadian institutions to current scholarship on Islamic art. Employing a wide range of approaches and theoretical perspectives, contributors cover topics from across the Islamic world dating from the eighth century to the present. Subjects include the iconography of architectural design and decoration, the role of Qur'anic inscriptions, the representation of symbolic animals in sculpture, and the interpretation of Persian manuscript painting. The book also juxtaposes modern and contemporary worlds, providing insightful reflections on the early history of the Islamic collections at the Royal Ontario Museum, Matisse's creative encounter with Byzantine and Islamic visual culture, and the ongoing dialogue between new media and the traditional concepts underpinning Islamic art. Bringing together recent scholarship on Islamic art, architecture, and archaeology, Made for the Eye of One Who Sees provides an overview of the important contributions Canada is making to this rich and evolving field of study.
This book tells the behind-the-scenes story of the development
of cardiovascular surgery at the Toronto General Hospital - now
rated as one of the best hospitals in the world.
The thirteenth-century Muslim mystic and poet Jalal al-Din Rumi
(1207-1273) is a popular spiritual icon. His legacy is sustained
within the mystical and religious practice of Sufism, particularly
...through renditions of his poetry, music, and the meditation
practice of whirling. In Canada, practices associated with Rumi
have become ubiquitous in public spaces, such as museums, art
galleries, and theatre halls, just as they continue to inform
sacred ritual among Sufi communities.
The Dervishes of the North explores what practices
associated with Rumi in public and private spaces tell us about
Sufism and spirituality, including sacred, cultural, and artistic
expressions in the Canadian context. Using Rumi and contemporary
expressions of poetry and whirling associated with him, the book
captures the lived reality of Sufism through an ethnographic study
of communities in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.
Drawing from conversations with Sufi leaders, whirling
dervishes, and poets, Merin Shobhana Xavier explores how Sufism is
constructed in Canada, particularly at the nexus of Islamic
mysticism, Muslim diaspora, spiritual commodity, popular culture,
and universal spirituality. Inviting readers with an interest in
religion and spirituality, The Dervishes of the North
illuminates how non-European Christian traditions, like Islam and
Sufism, have informed the religious and spiritual terrain of
Canada.
Cambodian refugees in Ontario McLellan, Janet
Cambodian refugees in Ontario,
c2009, 20091121, 2009, 2009-01-01, 20090101
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Janet McLellan uses ten years of ethnographic fieldwork, including extensive interviews, to highlight the difficulties Cambodians have faced in Canada.
Armed with the motto "Diversity Our Strength," the City of
Toronto has garnered a world-class reputation for challenging
racism, largely because of how it is seen to value and include
racialized ...groups through its diversity policies and practices.
Toronto the Good? unsettles popular depictions of both
diversity and the City of Toronto by attending to what diversity
does in and for the City in the context of historical relations of
race.
Toronto the Good? brings together Shana Almeida's
critical insights as a former political staff member along with her
years of in-depth research on diversity in the City of Toronto to
offer a compelling case to rethink how we understand diversity and
racial inclusion in the City of Toronto and beyond. Initiated in a
local context, Toronto the Good? c ritically contributes to
global discussions on diversity, race, democracy, political
participation, and power.
Middle income access to justice Trebilcock, Michael J; Sossin, Lorne Mitchell; Duggan, Anthony J
Middle income access to justice,
c2012, 20120503, 2012, 2012-12-31, 2012-05-03
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Middle Income Access to Justicepresents a variety of innovative solutions, from dispute resolution process reforms to the development of non-lawyer forms of assistance and new methods for funding ...legal expenses
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