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Notes from the Maritimes
At the end of May, the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) held their 2018 Festival of Architecture in Saint John, New Brunswick, and...
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Book Review – Copp House
Author: Adele Weder (ORO Editions (2017) In a mansion-filled Vancouver neighbourhood not far from the University of British Columbia stands a low-slung...
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Book Review – Four Walls and a Roof: The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession
Author: Reinier de Graaf (Harvard University Press, 2017) Architecture is a strange discipline, full of contradictions: it is at once simple and complex...
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We’re looking for creative mappers!
Back in 2012, we ran one of our most popular cover sections in Spacing magazine’s history: creative mapping. For our summer 2018 edition, we want to...
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The City of Illusions – Part 3
[Editors Note: This is a the third and final part in a series that seeks to connect the insights of Thomas Picketty’s well-known book Capital in the...
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The City of Illusions – Part 2
[Editors Note: This is a the second part in a series that seeks to connect the insights of Thomas Picketty’s well-known book Capital in the Twenty...
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Book Review – Chandigarh Revealed: Le Corbusier’s City Today
Author: Shaun Fynn (Princeton Architectural Press (2017) More than sixty-five years have passed since Le Corbusier was commissioned by Pandit Jawaharlal...
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The City of Illusions – Part 1
The distribution of wealth and the shape and form of cities are intimately related. As such, Thomas Picketty’s bestselling Capital in the Twenty First...
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Book Review – Redesigning Gridded Cities: Key Examples
Author: Joan Busquets with Pablo Perez-Ramos, Nikos Katsikis, Christina Crawford, Dingliang Yang (Applied Research + Design Publishing, 2016) Former MIT...
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Book Review: Infinite Suburbia
Editors: Alan M. Berger, Joel Kotkin with Celina Balderas Guzman (Princeton Architectural Press, 2017) According to Queens University’s David Gordon...
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Book Review: The Sagrada Familia
Author: Gijs van Hensbergen (Bloomsbury Press, 2017) Giljs van Hensbergen has pulled off a remarkable feat, taming the monstre sacré of twentieth-century...
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5 steps to winter cycling in Toronto
This post by Jackson Smylie is part of Spacing’s partnership with the Toronto Cycling Think & Do Tank at the University of Toronto. Jackson is...
By Toronto Cycling Think and Do Tank
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered