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Urban Citizen Movements are community groups that are often organized around concerns about land use and the way planning decisions are made in local government. These concerns can be summed up respectively by the familiar slogans "Protect our neighbourhood" and "Open up city hall.
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Urban design can be applied to the whole city (as in KITIMAT), to well-defined units of the city (as in Don Mills in Toronto) and to individual streets and clusters of buildings. The earliest extant examples of urban design in Canada are designs for the whole city.
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Both land surface and air are altered by urbanization. Buildings change the geometric arrangement of the land surface, creating a rigid, rough system of blocks and street "canyons," especially in the centre of cities.
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The urban heat island effect is a phenomenon created by city infrastructure like buildings, roads and rooftops, which absorb heat from the sun and re-emit this heat back into the air. This can cause higher air temperatures in urban areas. While some 27 million Canadians are affected by the urban heat island effect, many Canadian cities are creating green spaces with plants and trees and passing new urban design policies to reduce the impact of the urban heat island effect.
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Urban reform refers to a loosely knit set of municipal government and citizen group initiatives, from the late 1890s to the end of the First World War and from the late 1960s to the mid-1970s, aimed at improving city life.
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Urban studies is the study of Canada's urban development in all its diverse aspects, including the evolution of communities (urban history); city-building processes (urban geography, urban economics, planning, architecture); urban politics and government (urban political science); and urban society (urban sociology and anthropology, urban demography).
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Horse-drawn trams were a vast improvement, but they were far from ideal transportation. Heavy loads could not be hauled, and horses were expensive and required frequent rest periods; they also polluted the streets.
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Urbanization is a complex process in which a country's population centres tend to become larger, more specialized and more interdependent over time.
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Urgent ethnology involves recording on sound tapes, films, photographs and in writing the endangered languages and traditions of the Inuit, First Nation and Métis peoples of Canada.
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The soft-spoken Vancouver doctor, in her late 40s and a mother of three, does not want her name used. Nor does the 52-year-old doctor in Edmonton, a father of two. Another Vancouver gynecologist, a bespectacled grandfather, wont reveal his name or even his approximate age.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on November 2, 1998
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KILOMETRES down the highway, past the hordes of media, the satellite trucks and multiple army checkpoints, the man with the violin is standing alone at the Iraqi border, shivering in the gathering desert darkness.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on March 31, 2003
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Cathy Wattendorf is a white 20-year-old student taking a "really cool" engineering course and training to be a U.S. Air Force officer in the southwest Virginia college town of Blacksburg.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on March 20, 1995
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The search for survivors in Nairobi was long and gruelling. It went on for 24 hours a day, lit at night by lights from a film studio truck and using heavy equipment donated by local construction companies. Officially, it ended on Aug.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on August 24, 1998
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Andrea April Rush was carrying her three-year-old daughter, Amanda, in one arm and her year-old son, Tomlee, in the other as she plodded through a shopping centre in Columbia, Md.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on August 12, 1996
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John McCain's campaign bus is rolling through New Hampshire, from Laconia to Nashua and half a dozen places in between.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on January 31, 2000
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