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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...
By Jeremy Senko -
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...
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Book Review – Adapting Cities to Sea Level Rise: Green and Gray Strategies
Author: Stefan Al (Island Press, 2018) Many of our world’s urban centres lie along the shores of oceans and seas. As areas of rapid urbanization...
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Acton Ostry Architects: 25 Years Young
While an architecture student at UBC in 1998, our class was asked to go out around Vancouver and photograph examples of ‘weather registers’, instances in...
By Sean Ruthen -
National Housing Week: the missing middle
We hear a lot about missing middle housing in Toronto these days: it’s something our city needs more of, it’s one of many solutions that could address our...
By Julie Fader -
Book Review: Smith House II
The design of a house is for me a resolution between the needs of a family and the demands of a site. The relationship between building and site should be...
By Sean Ruthen -
The Rough House
With ‘Freespace’ the theme of the 2018 Venice Biennale, described by the curators as ‘a generosity of spirit and a sense of humanity at the...
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A closer look at the City of Canada transit map
EDITOR’S NOTE: On Canada Day this year, Spacing’s creative director Matthew Blackett published a map of a fictional City of Canada in the...
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Video: Halifax vs Vancouver: Round One “Cycling”
Via PLANifax: Halifax and Vancouver may be on different sides of the country, but that’s not going to stop us from some friendly competition. We...
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Book Review – Preston Scott Cohen | Taiyuan Museum of Art
Edited by Benjamin Wilke – No. 11 Source Books in Architecture (Applied Research & Design 2017) Preston Scott Cohen has built a distinctive design...
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The Architecture of Michelangelo Antonioni
In the history of modern cinema, the relationship between architecture and human drama has only been fully exploited by a few filmmakers, and it could do...
By Sean Ruthen
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered