History
Event: AFTERSHOCK – Looking back at 1918 for a view of Vancouver’s future
By Vancouver City Planning Commission
Event Details Date: October 27, 2020 Time: 7:00-8:30-pm Via: Zoom RSVP and more information Event Description The first victim in... Read More
REID: Piketty and the decline of “dirty mansions”
By Dylan Reid
Toronto’s affordable housing crisis has many facets. One of these many facets is the conversion – or rather, re-conversion – of big... Read More
LORINC: The digs of R.C. Harris
By John Lorinc
Anyone venturing by the Queen Street side of Old City Hall in the past couple of weeks may have noticed a small new plaque in front of... Read More
Book Review: 100 Ideas That Changed Architecture
By Sean Ruthen
Written by Richard Weston (Laurence King Publishing, 2020) This book’s title poses two obvious questions: what is an architectural... Read More
Book Review: Planning on the Edge
By Yuri Artibise
Editors: Penny Gurstein and Tom Hutton (UBC Press, 2019) Planning On The Edge: Vancouver and the Challenges of Reconciliation, Social... Read More
PODCAST: City scenes that saved summer
By Glyn Bowerman
It’s been a rough summer for everyone, but people have found ways to get outside and make the most of it. In this episode, we... Read More
REID: Remembering Doug Taylor, a historian of Toronto
By Dylan Reid
Doug Taylor, one of Toronto’s local historians, died recently at the age of 82. I got to know Doug because we were both among the... Read More
Book Review – The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness
By Erick Villagomez
Author: Emily Anthes, Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2020) We spend most of our lives in buildings. According to... Read More
The Dufferin Grove Stones and the surprisingly winding trail to discover the origins of mysterious Toronto architectural ruins
By Andrew Lochhead
Hidden amongst the shrubs of one of Toronto’s best-loved parks lies a collection of architectural ruins – carved stones – recently... Read More
Book Review – Human Scale Revisited: A New Look at the Classic Case for a Decentralist Future
By Marnie McGregor
Author: Kirkpatrick Sale (Chelsea Green, 2017) Reading Human Scale Revisited by Kirkpatrick Sale from Athens, Greece during a global... Read More