Housing Vancouver

Housing, Like Beer, Is Better Done in Small Batches

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Forty years ago, Molson, Labatt, and Carling O’Keefe collectively owned 96 percent of Canada’s beer market. Their shared monopoly... Read More

Architecture

Book Review – Here & Gone: Artwork of Vancouver & Beyond

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Text and watercolours by Michael Kluckner, Midtown Press, 2020  I could not have imagined Vancouver becoming such a city of contrasts... Read More

Civic Engagement Toronto

MESLIN: If a billboard falls in a forest… Part 4

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Exactly fifteen years ago this week, I received this short and uplifting e-mail from Toronto city staff: January 12, 2006 Hi Dave, We... Read More

Events Vancouver

Event – Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Genius Loci, Jan. 24

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Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Genius Loci Online Panel Discussion Presented by the West Coast Modern League in Partnership with the West... Read More

Streetscape Toronto

LORINC: Yonge Street’s new mission

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It sometimes seems as if the ‘whither-Yonge Street’ question has been loitering on the edges of our civic debates ever since the... Read More

History Toronto

Sam Carr and Toronto’s Soviet spies

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Sam Carr walked out of the Don Jail on a crisp autumn day in 1942. He had been living underground for two years, and detained for the... Read More

Maps Vancouver

RELEASE: Is there something in the air? These UBC researchers want to know

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We all know air quality can sometimes be imperfect. The smells and aromas produced by traffic, businesses and industry, and... Read More

Curiosities

Book Review – The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design

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Authors: Roman Mars and Kurt Kohlstedt (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020) It is not a stretch to say that most contemporary urbanists... Read More

Podcast Toronto

PODCAST: Spacing Radio 052, Public Realm Resolutions

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We began 2020 with a bit of optimism — how could we know? We had an episode about the public realm and its importance, and spoke to urban... Read More

Pandemic Toronto

LORINC: 2020, a year of urban resilience

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The answer to the “whither-cities” question that’s buzzed around the edges of pandemic punditry was never seriously in... Read More

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