The Overhead: Decommodifying Housing
Spacing and the Balanced Supply of Housing research node proudly present The Overhead: Understanding Canada’s Affordable Housing Crisis, a special podcast series.
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Notes from Nice and London
In 1864, Fydor Dostoevsky wrote his seminal Notes from Underground, a novella exploring existentialism and alienation in a large city – in his case...
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The Overhead: Indigenous-led housing
Spacing and the Balanced Supply of Housing research node proudly present The Overhead: Understanding Canada’s Affordable Housing Crisis, a special podcast series.
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Arthur Erickson Centennial Symposium – A Summary
Arthur Erickson often referred to the workplace as an ‘atelier’, and many of the distinguished architects who worked with him over the years...
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Book Review: Rocky Mountain Modern – Contemporary Alpine Homes
“In so many ways this has been a lifelong project. Some of my earliest memories – learning to ski at Sunshine Village, in Banff, seeing Jasper...
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The Overhead: Non-Profit Housing and Gentle Density
Spacing and the Balanced Supply of Housing research node proudly present The Overhead: Understanding Canada’s Affordable Housing Crisis, a special podcast series.
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Book Review – Set Pieces: Architecture for the Performing Arts in Fifteen Fragments
By Diamond Schmitt Architects (Birkhäuser, 2024) In a media and cultural landscape shaped by screens, it may seem counterintuitive that live performance...
By Erick Villagomez
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Book Review – platform.MIDDLE: Architecture for Housing the 99%
Written by 5468796 Architecture (Arquine, 2024) In an era where towering residential skyscrapers increasingly shape urban landscapes—often with...
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2025 Global Placemaking Summit comes to Toronto
Register now for this unique four-day event, June 8-11
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The Overhead: The Housing Crisis in Trump’s America
Spacing and the Balanced Supply of Housing research node proudly present The Overhead: Understanding Canada’s Affordable Housing Crisis, a special podcast series.
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The Overhead: Tracking Evictions Across Canada
Spacing and the Balanced Supply of Housing research node proudly present The Overhead: Understanding Canada’s Affordable Housing Crisis, a special podcast series.
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The Overhead: Security for Renters
Spacing and the Balanced Supply of Housing research node proudly present The Overhead: Understanding Canada’s Affordable Housing Crisis, a special podcast series.
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The Future Fix: l’innovation au service des citoyens
Spacing and Evergreen proudly present The Future Fix: Solutions for Communities Across Canada, a special podcast series. This is a special, French-language edition.
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Ever wonder how a house gets an address number?
You can tell a lot about a building by its number. Depending on what city you’re in, a street address can indicate distance from a body of water or major...
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Book Review – Rural Studio: Samuel Mockbee and an Architecture of Decency
Authors: Andrea Oppenheimer Dean, Timothy Hursley (Princeton Architectural Press, 2002) In his 1952 novel East of Eden, John Steinbeck took on an argument...
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Why we must stop the ‘urbicide’ — the killing of cities
The 21st century was supposed to be the “century of the city.” As of 2007, 50% of the world’s population lives in cities, and the United Nations has...
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A closer look at the City of Canada transit map
EDITOR’S NOTE: On Canada Day this year, Spacing’s creative director Matthew Blackett published a map of a fictional City of Canada in the...
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High-tech tree houses hope to bring more people to city parks
A London-based company Invisible Works is trying to incorporate nature and urban parks by creating clever, innovative structures that blend into the...
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Empty Sears Store
Photo by Vik Pahwa (Toronto Photography Blog) The empty Sears store at the Eaton Centre, Nordstrom will be taking over the space, Toronto Contribute your...
By Julie Fish