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La population d’Elliot Lake au nord de l’Ontario est vieille et vieillit, est petite et rapetisse. Elle est la ville qui a connu le rétrécissement le plus sévère au Canada et contient une des populations les plus vieilles au pays. Suite à la perte de l’industrie minière d’uranium, Elliot Lake s’est adapté afin de devenir une communauté de retraite, avec l’objectif de mieux répondre aux besoins de sa population. En 2017, la ville a publié un plan ...
This paper engages with contemporary debates in labour geographies through its focus on precarity as a point of mobilisation, and the importance of material spaces in shaping migrant labour struggles. In Taiwan, temporary contract-based low-waged workers are faced with regulations that limit the right to change jobs and confines them to workplaces such as employers’ homes for caregivers, and dormitories for factory operators. Workplaces are often in distant industrial landscapes which incr...
This paper gauges the attitudes and levels of support that residents of the City of Mississauga have towards suburban retrofitting pre-pandemic. Suburban retrofitting incrementally changes the land-use, built-form, and street network patterns of suburban neighbourhoods, typically ones built after World War II, in order to make them more walkable, permeable to automobile traffic, to bring non-residential land-uses closer to residential are...
