Media

Book Review – Code and Clay, Data and Dirt: Five Thousand Years of Urban Media

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Author: Shannon Mattern (University of Minnesota Press, 2017) There is little doubt that the influx of digital technologies is... Read More

Urban Design

Book Review – Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places

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Author:  Jeff Speck (Island Press, 2018) When I reviewed Walkable City, the precursor to this book by Jeff Speck in 2013, I was in a... Read More

Architecture

Book Review – Public Natures: Evolutionary Infrastructures

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Author: Weiss/Manfredi– Princeton Architectural Press (2018) In considering the evolution of ecological, urban, and social... Read More

Infrastructure

Book Review – Adapting Cities to Sea Level Rise: Green and Gray Strategies

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Author: Stefan Al (Island Press, 2018) Many of our world’s urban centres lie along the shores of oceans and seas. As areas of rapid... Read More

Architecture

Acton Ostry Architects: 25 Years Young

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While an architecture student at UBC in 1998, our class was asked to go out around Vancouver and photograph examples of ‘weather... Read More

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