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Planning City-Wide: A Primer – Part 2
Common City Planning Initiatives We would be forgiven if our initial reaction to the nature of the contemporary city described in Part 1 is to run away...
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Planning City-Wide: A Primer – Part 1
Can city design be good? Few would doubt that they can, yet an honest answer must be tentative. It must pry into city planning, objectives, and the...
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Book Review – The Smart Enough City: Putting Technology In Its Place To Reclaim Our Urban Future
Author: Ben Green (MIT Press, 2019) This book is about the battle for the future of cities. The smart city may represent the next major urban...
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Book Review – The Largest Art: A Measured Manifesto for a Plural Urbanism
Author: Brent D. Ryan (MIT Press, 2017) Contemporary cities are the most complex entities humanity has ever created. To be sure, we are only beginning to...
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Notes from Charlottetown
As the new BC/Yukon regional director of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, I recently had the privilege of meeting in June with my fellow board...
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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 do. As I read Kat...
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Book Review – Inventing Future Cities
Author: Michael Batty (MIT Press, 2018) Given the state of the world, it is fair to say that the future of cities is intimately intertwined with the...
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The disassembly of a city: Windsor’s Mega-hospital debate should be on every Canadian’s radar
ED: This op-ed by Shane Mitchell regarding Windsor’s “Mega-hospital” debate is a microcosm of the poor land use planning many Canadian...
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Book Review – Code and Clay, Data and Dirt: Five Thousand Years of Urban Media
Author: Shannon Mattern (University of Minnesota Press, 2017) There is little doubt that the influx of digital technologies is altering our understanding...
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Book Review: The Language of Cities
Author: Deyan Sudjic (Penguin Press, 2016) The early moderns did all they could to find ways of controlling the uncontrollable city. We do not belong to...
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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 much different place...
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Book Review – Public Natures: Evolutionary Infrastructures
Author: Weiss/Manfredi– Princeton Architectural Press (2018) In considering the evolution of ecological, urban, and social infrastructures, we have been...
By Sean Ruthen
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered