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WWW: Inclusive urban visions
How to build inclusive communities Challenging urban segregation is essential for economic and social suitability but requires multiple forms of...
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Book Review: The Sea Ranch – Fifty Years of Architecture, Landscape, Place, and Community on the Northern California Coast
Edited by Donlyn Lyndon & Jim Alinder, (Princeton Architectural Press, 2014) One hundred miles north of San Francisco, the Sonoma County coast meets...
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WWW: Combating injustice with innovation and participation
Building floating cities in French Polynesia as an answer to climate change A Silicon Valley tech firm is developing self-contained, floating communities...
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HULCHANSKI: Trudeau’s housing spending is smoke and mirrors
In a year when the high cost of housing dominates the headlines, this year’s federal budget is promoting a bright shiny object: the allocation of $11...
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WWW: Cities of the developing world: forgotten spaces, hidden gems, and big ideas
The edges of a mega-city This photo essay documents the fringes of Mexico City, showing the forgotten spaces of urban perimeters. Constructing a capital...
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Thinking Bigger: Getting people moving in Scarborough
This post by Marvin Macaraig, Ph.D., is part of Spacing’s partnership with the Toronto Cycling Think & Do Tank at the University of Toronto. Marvin is...
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WWW: Changing transportation to adapt to the technological age
How are ride sharing apps affecting public transit? While the effects ride share apps such as Uber on the taxi industry are evident, what have the impacts...
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Book Review: Brodsky and Utkin
Authors: Alexander Brodsky and Ilya Utkin (Princeton Architectural Press, 2015) Speaking to his wonderful book Imaginary Cities, author Darran Anderson...
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Unpacking Kellie Leitch’s phony threat to sanctuary cities
In an echo of President Donald Trump’s policy-by-Twitter, MP Kellie Leitch has turned her attention to sanctuary cities. In a March 9, 2017 tweet, the...
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WWW: Transit Transitions
Innovative on-demand bus service implemented in India The new service has faced legal and operational challenges but presents an interesting new...
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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 to shrug it off...
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WWW: Stories of urban infrastructure
Learning from the mistakes of the High Line Planners rethink and reassess how the design of New York City’s High Line park could have better served the...
By Sarah Yellin
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered