Book Review – Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design

Author: Kat Holmes (The MIT Press, 2017) The idea of universal design is powerful and (hopefully) prevalent in everything designers... Read More

Book Review – Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places

Author:  Jeff Speck (Island Press, 2018) When I reviewed Walkable City, the precursor to this book by Jeff Speck in 2013, I was in a... Read More

Book Review – The Strip: Las Vegas and the Architecture of the American Dream

Author: Stefan Al (The MIT Press, 2017) The first time I visited Las Vegas, I was quickly taken aback at the structures. I’d just... Read More

Book Review – You Say To Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn

Author: Wendy Lesser (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017) When I was completing the final project of my Interior Design degree, I started... Read More

Book Review: Reinventing the Automobile

Author: William J. Mitchell, Christopher E. Borroni-Bird, and Lawrence D. Burns (The MIT Press, 2010) One technology that is due for... Read More

Book Review: POG – Pod Off-Grid

Author: Jason Pomeroy (ORO Editions, 2016) When people hear about the oceans rising due to climate change, their response is usually... Read More

Book Review: The City That Never Was

Author: Christopher Marcinkoski (Princeton Architectural Press, 2016) The world captured within The City That Never Was by Christopher... Read More

Book Review – State of the World: Can a City Be Sustainable?

Author: Worldwatch Institute (Island Press, 2016) Every year since I started writing for Spacing, I have found myself anxiously... Read More

Uber and the Automated Car: A Slow Unveiling of our Transportation Future – Part 2

In Part One of Uber and the Automated Car we learned a brief overview of Uber’s model, and began to look at the sharing... Read More

Uber and the Automated Car: A Slow Unveiling of our Transportation Future – Part 1

Think for a second on the advances that have been made for personal transportation since the automobile overtook horse drawn carriages... Read More