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Mackenzie Place: The tallest residential building in Canada’s North

By Jesse Colin Jackson

EDITOR’S NOTE: In Spacing #29/2013, photographer Jesse Colin Jackson and anthropologist Lindsay Bell wrote about MacKenzie Place, the tallest... Read More

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Tools to address the affordable housing crisis facing Canada

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In 2019, Canada adopted the National Housing Strategy Act, which commits all governments in Canada to “progressive realization of the... Read More

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Spacing and Evergreen proudly present The Future Fix: Solutions for Communities Across Canada, a special podcast series. THIS EPISODE... Read More

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Author: Richard K. Rein (Island Press, 2022) “In our attention to making organization work we have come close to deifying it. We... Read More

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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

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