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Downtown Winnipeg: Developments and Investments, 2005 - 2013
(Institute of Urban Studies, 2013)This IUS In-Brief explores the rapid upswing in investment in Winnipeg's downtown over the last eight years by collecting and mapping the changes that have taken place during this frenzied period of development. -
Confronting the Illusion: Developing a Method to Identify Food Mirages and Food Deserts in Winnipeg
(Institute of Urban Studies, 2016-06)This In-Brief develops a new method to identify both food deserts and food mirages to broaden the understanding of barriers individuals face in accessing food. We find that while food deserts exist in Winnipeg, food mirages ... -
Living in the Red: Exploring Winnipeg's Debt-scape
(Institute of Urban Studies, 2015-04-02)Canadian households are now deeper in debt than at any time since Statistics Canada began collecting debtor data in 1961. Debt, payment delinquency, and bankruptcy are increasingly a part of the lives of the young, the ... -
The Lived Experience Circle: An Advisory Committee of the At Home/Chez Soi Project's Winnipeg Site
(Institute of Urban Studies, 2014-10-24)The Lived Experience Circle (LEC) was formed in 2010 as an advisory group to the Winnipeg site of the At Home/Chez Soi study. At Home/Chez Soi is a study on homelessness and mental illness, and is the largest of its kind ... -
Going Old School: Activism Reborn in Winnipeg's Inner City
(2014-09-26)In our first In-Brief discussion, IUS and Mike Maunder team up to explore a longstanding issue facing a local Winnipeg high school trying to secure much needed green space. In this brief discussion, what emerges is a story ... -
Winnipeg's Vanishing Rooming Houses: Change in the West Broadway and Spence Neighbourhoods
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Downtown Winnipeg: Developments and Investments, 2005-2013
(Institute of Urban Studies, 2013-11-25)