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Canadian Urbanism Uncovered

By Jacqueline Whyte Appleby

  • Hot Docs: Tchoupitoulas

    Tchoupitoulas is about what happens in a city at night: its quirks, its personalities, its sounds. It’s about what happens in New Orleans specifically, a...

  • Hot Docs: Herman’s House

    Herman’s House follows the friendship and working relationship of artist and activist Jackie Summell and Herman Wallace, a Louisiana prisoner who had been...

  • Keep Toronto Reading: Occupying the Page

    In Girls Fall Down, “bodies in space” is one of the main character’s frequent refrains. As a medical photographer, Alex is often charged with...

  • Hot Docs 2012: What to See

    It’s almost Hot Docs season again, and there’s a whole fleet of films we’re looking forward to. This year’s Hot Docs festival runs...

  • Keep Toronto Reading 2012

    Every April, the Toronto Public Library celebrates the city’s thriving literary culture with the Keep Toronto Reading festival. Once again, Spacing...

  • Event: Rivers Forgotten book launch

    Buried waterways are the stuff of creepy urban legends, but in Toronto photographer Jeremy Kai’s new book, a surprisingly beautiful underworld is...

  • Event: Gary Hustwit’s Urbanized at TIFF tonight

    In 2007, Gary Hustwit’s Helvetica used a popular font to change the way many of us thought about design. 2009’s Objectified stepped back a bit, taking the...

  • Hot Docs: Foreign Parts

    Foreign Parts has the aura of a Discovery Channel special: the audience’s job is to watch and learn. The tone and pace of the film make it feel like an...

  • Hot Docs: The Interrupters

    Thoughout The Interrupters, the streets of Chicago are repeatedly called a “war zone.” While this is a phrase repeated by wide-eyed, blonde Fox reporters...

  • Hot Docs: St-Henri, the 26th of August

    In 1962, three Quebec filmmakers collaborated on St-Henri, le cinq Septembre, a project documenting working class life in the Montreal neighbourhood of...

  • Event: Malls Across America, 1989

    In the late 1980s, filmmaker Michael Galinsky took a roadtrip across the U.S., stopping at dozens of malls to photograph those shopping, eating, and...

  • What to See at Hot Docs 2011

    Hot Docs 2011 began last night, and runs until May 8. In the next week Spacing will be posting reviews of some urbanist-relevant films. In the meantime...