Toronto

PODCAST: Spacing Radio 031, Toronto 2033 – Premonitions

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To celebrate Spacing‘s 15th anniversary, and the launch of “Toronto 2033: 10 short stories about the city’s future,” we speak to a... Read More

Film & Video Vancouver

Video Vancouver: Urban Planning Trends to Watch in 2019

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Climate change, housing prices, alternative transportation, and mega-projects. Will it be two steps forward or two steps back? For more... Read More

Maps Vancouver

Book Review – Close Up At A Distance: Mapping Technology and Politics

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Author: Laura Kurgan (Zone Books, 2012) Close Up At A Distance: Mapping Technology and Politics is an excellent introduction to the... 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

Housing Toronto

Three areas that will help relieve Toronto’s housing crisis

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George Popper is a Toronto architect While Toronto desperately needs affordable housing, I believe the first step towards that goal is... Read More

Housing Toronto

LORINC: What’s the big idea behind Housing Now?

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John Tory’s executive committee convenes today to consider, among other items, the fleshed out implementation strategy for the first... Read More

Housing Vancouver

Why Vancouver Needs an ‘Affordability Bank’

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Vancouver needs an Affordability Bank. Here’s what that would be: A new policy that allows people choosing to build new single-family... Read More

Housing Toronto

LORINC: How reducing development charges will spur the ‘missing middle’

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While city council tries to figure out how to confront a made-in-Toronto housing affordability crisis, Ontario’s Progressive... Read More

Features Vancouver

Redesigning Cities to Support Seniors Stuck in Suburban Sprawl

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Rasiklal Joshi never took the bus. He always drove — until he reached his 80s and his doctor told him to stop. “I tried to persuade my... Read More

Film & Video Vancouver

Video Vancouver: Delft – spoor en centrum

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Via small places: It’s been said that the Netherlands is both a dense country and a sprawling city, but neither is quite right... Read More

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