Spacing Vancouver

Event: Introduction to Neighbourhood Design’ Courses – SFU, Scot Hein, April-May 2023

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Scot Hein was one of the most respected planners at Vancouver City Hall. For the last few years, he has been using his skills to train... Read More

Architecture Vancouver

S101 Series: Introduction and Call

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If you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it a thousand times: cities are complex. But that doesn’t mean they need to be complicated... Read More

Housing Toronto

LORINC: How to expedite affordable housing during a crisis

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With the launch of the annual budget slam dance, at the beginning of a new term of city council, on this, the 25th anniversary of... Read More

Housing Toronto

EXCERPT: Displacement City: Fighting for Health and Homes in a Pandemic

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The following is the afterword by Spacing‘s Shawn Micallef in the new book Displacement City: Fighting for Health and Homes in a... Read More

Housing Vancouver

What Does Our $78-Billion Housing Program Really Fix?

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How can Canada possibly spend five years and tens of billions to fix the housing crisis, but still have no idea if it’s working... Read More

Waterfront Toronto

LORINC: Can the Ontario Science Centre save Ontario Place?

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Here’s a strange little detail about the 20-car pile-up that is the Ontario Place redevelopment scheme: Shortly before... Read More

Politics Toronto

LORINC: John Tory’s housewarming gift to the new police chief

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In the early 1980s, when inner city crime was soaring in many large metropolitan areas, a pair of American sociologists concocted what... Read More

Urban Design Vancouver

Digging Into Where The Sun Needs Shine – BROADWAY PLAN – Part 2

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Expand upon our embedded assets This lyric essay digs inside the psyche of planning processes. It uses the oblique projection of... Read More

Architecture

Book Review: The Ecologies of The Building Envelope – A Material History and Theory of Architectural Surfaces

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Author: Alejandro Zaera-Polo & Jeffrey S. Anderson  (Actar Publishers, 2021) Given the number of books I read and review every... Read More

Housing Toronto

LORINC: Toronto’s Rooming House deal: Solving the ultimate puzzle

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Toronto is a city whose residents are encouraged (or encourage one another) to dislike certain things, but who have also forgotten (or... Read More

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