Architecture
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The Pro Forma Problem
[EDITORS NOTE: This piece seeks to answer a simple question by a community member: how could the City decision-making about the Broadway Plan be so...
By Erick Villagomez -
Book Review: The Architecture of Urbanity – Designing for Nature, Culture, and Joy
“The means for the design professions to advance an architecture of urbanity are clear – architecture practices should strive to build an...
By Sean Ruthen -
The True Christmas of Meaning
Holly Snolightly is a beautiful thirtysomething travel writer and the busy Manhattan CEO of an international Christmas tree conglomerate. She reserves a...
By Derek DeLand -
S101S: Understanding Affordable Housing: The Trickle-Down Theory of Housing – Myths and Realities
EDITOR’S NOTE: With affordable housing debates raging, misinformation is everywhere. Trickle-down housing narratives loom large in the...
By Erick Villagomez -
Follow the money to Ontario Place
The Ontario auditor general’s review of the Ontario Place scandal contains enough muck to start an industrial-scale pig farm, with plenty left over...
By John Lorinc -
Reflections on Art
If writing about music is like dancing about architecture, and architecture about art is like Lego about crayons, then writing about architecture about...
By Derek DeLand -
Old Gables and Pizza Slices: 648-656 Spadina Avenue
As an architectural photographer, I am always keen to record surviving fragments of older streetscapes in areas of downtown Toronto that have been subject...
By Peter MacCallum -
EVENT: Strollin’ — an evening talking about walking November 28
WHAT: An evening talking about walking on November 28 at 6PM. WHO: Shawn Micallef, Spacing Sr. Editor, Toronto Star columnist and University College...
By Spacing -
When Care Becomes Control: The Hidden Violence of Urban Planning
It seems to us that this connection—or better perhaps, confusion—between care and domination is utterly critical to the larger question of how we lost the...
By Erick Villagomez -
Book Review – The Shape of the Land: Topography & Landscape Architecture
Editor: Marc Treib (ORO Editions, 2022) Transforming the natural environment is fundamental to our species. Since ancient times, humans have reshaped...
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UCS #29: New Kitsilano Tower Design
See our Launch and Introduction about the launch of the © Urban Cartoon Syndicate and the announcement by CityHallWatch. *** Related reading: Vancouver’s...
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The Barcelona Chronicles: The Superilla Pilot
Jordi Honey-Roses, Silvia Casorran Martos, and Xavier Matilla, warmly greeted the British Columbian planners as we approached the intersection of Carrer...
By Erick Villagomez