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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

By Carolyn Whitzman

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

The Future Fix: Mapping Arctic Sea Ice

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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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Book Review: American Urbanist

By Sean Ruthen

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

By Erick Villagomez

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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Book Review: Ron Thom Architect – The Life of a Creative Modernist

By Sean Ruthen

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