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Call for Entries: Urbanarium’s 2017 Missing Middle Housing Competition
What would it take to solve Vancouver’s housing crisis? The not-for-profit organization Urbanarium has issued an invitation to talented designers from...
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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 the project off by...
By Jeremy Senko -
Book Review: Binning House
Author: Matthew Soules (ORO Editions, 2017) Spending time in the Binning House is like being enveloped in a gentle super-reality, not a parallel reality...
By Sean Ruthen -
Book Review – Los Angeles Boulevard: Eight X-Rays of the Body Public
Author: Doug Suisman (ORO Editions, 2014) As an urban design instructor, practitioner and bibliophile, it is a rare pleasure to discover lesser known...
By Erick Villagomez -
Book Review: Glacier Skywalk
Written by Clea Sturgess, Trevor Boddy, and Jeremy Sturgess – Figure 1 Publishing (2017) The Glacier Skywalk construction process had to be...
By Sean Ruthen -
Book Review: Velotopia
Author: Steven Fleming (nai010 publishers, 2017) “No one would say Le Corbusier’s Plan Voisin did good for the world, but we can learn so much from his...
By Chris Bruntlett -
OP-ED: Will Canadian Infrastructure Bank lead to more privatization?
This week, Spacing is publishing three columns about the proposed $35 billion Canada Infrastructure Bank, which was proposed as part of the Liberal...
By John Lorinc -
OP-ED: Finding the benefit in Canada’s infrastructure bank
This week, Spacing is publishing three columns about the proposed $35 billion Canada Infrastructure Bank, which was proposed as part of the Liberal...
By Matti Siemiatycki -
Book Review: Atlas of Cities
Editor: Paul Knox (Princeton University Press, 2014) With cities at the centre of all major global phenomena—from climate change to population growth—it...
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OP-ED: Does Canada need a federal infrastructure agency?
This week, Spacing is publishing three columns about the proposed $35 billion Canada Infrastructure Bank, which was proposed as part of the Liberal...
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Islamophobia in Canadian public spaces: how to go from trauma to solidarity
There is a pressing need to turn public spaces where Muslims have been traumatized into spaces where solidarity is strengthened. Racialized communities...
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Book Review From The Stacks: The New Downtown Library
Author: Shannon Mattern (University of Minnesota Press, 2007) “The legitimacy of the library is in question” — Rem Koolhaas during the design of the...
By Andrew Cuthbert
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered