Culture

Book Review – The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design

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Authors: Roman Mars and Kurt Kohlstedt (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020) It is not a stretch to say that most contemporary urbanists... Read More

Vancouver

Review: Architecture & Design Film Festival 2020

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Already a week into this year’s program, the virtual online version of the 12-year-old Architecture & Design Film Festival includes a... Read More

Toronto

‘Out of this world’ sculptures land in midtown

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In Toronto, there are a number of public artworks that re-imagine the human subject. I’m thinking, for example, of Hadley+ Maxwell’s... Read More

Toronto

The Dufferin Grove Stones and the surprisingly winding trail to discover the origins of mysterious Toronto architectural ruins

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Hidden amongst the shrubs of one of Toronto’s best-loved parks lies a collection of architectural ruins – carved stones – recently... Read More

Toronto

THOMPSON: What if the Caribana Carnival went back to its roots?

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“The watching Torontonians didn’t cheer, didn’t wave,” reported the Toronto Daily Star on August 5, 1967, as “Caribana” left Varsity... Read More

Vancouver

Book Review – Human Scale Revisited: A New Look at the Classic Case for a Decentralist Future

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Author: Kirkpatrick Sale (Chelsea Green, 2017) Reading Human Scale Revisited by Kirkpatrick Sale from Athens, Greece during a global... Read More

Toronto

The connections between public art and activism

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In this moment of social and political upheaval, as protesters demand racial justice in response to police brutality and systemic... Read More

Toronto

If Black lives truly matter in Canada, an apology for slavery is only a first step

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silNatasha Henry is a 2018 Vanier Scholar completing a PhD in History at York University on the enslavement of Africans in early... Read More

Vancouver

Six-Foot City: Introduction

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Although the recent pandemic has brought to light many important issues, none has been more pervasive than social distancing. Embedded... Read More

Toronto

Tales from The Concert Hall at the Masonic Temple

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“You need to get there by 5. Or 4, if you can.” This advice might have come from someone’s older brother, or more likely someone’s... Read More