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PARKS: The changing nature of parks — interview with Adrian Benepe
Ahead of Park People’s first national city parks conference in Calgary this coming March 2017, Park People’s Jake Tobin Garrett caught up with Adrian...
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WWW: Alternative housing options not just for the Dutch and hippies
Mutually beneficial housing relationships between students and seniors A Dutch hosing development provides free housing for students in exchange for an...
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WWW: New urban food innovations from around the world
Alternatives to urban food waste How cities are implementing creative solutions to reduce and reuse the excessive quantity of food waste amassed by...
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Book Review From the Stacks – More Mobile: Portable Architecture for Today
Editor: Jennifer Siegal (Princeton Architectural Press, 2008) More Mobile is the little book that roared. About the size of a stack of old 6”x 9” photos...
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Is Public Sex in Parks a Public Safety Concern?
By Marsha McLeod and Jen Roberton The presence of public sex in parks is a long standing tradition in urban centres. For some, having public sex is a...
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Hamilton: The benefits of living on the outskirts of cool
Despite its new reputation as a real estate hotbed, Hamilton has yet to be branded as an internationally renowned cultural hub, though the annual...
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Book Review – Research Methods for Architecture
Author: Raymond Lucas (Laurence King, 2016) “As a discipline, architecture often struggles with the idea of research…” It’s difficult to think of a more...
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Realizing the untapped potential of Canada’s city parks
Spacing is a media partner of Canada’s first national conference on city parks, hosted by Park People, in 2017 in Calgary. Parks make our cities...
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LORINC: Trump-proofing Canadian communities
Amidst the miasma of grief and bewilderment that engulfed the past week, I have found myself pondering the question: are we vulnerable, and if so, how...
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Book Review: Where We Want to Live—Reclaiming Infrastructure for a New Generation of Cities
Author: Ryan Gravel (St. Martin’s, 2016) It is not often that a graduate school project turns into a best selling book, let alone a transformative...
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Bikes and Belonging: helping Toronto feel like home
This post by Yvonne Verlinden is part of Spacing’s partnership with the Toronto Cycling Think & Do Tank at the University of Toronto. Yvonne’s...
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SASKATOON: Prairie city chooses city-builder as mayor
EDITOR’S NOTE: In the spring of 2013, Spacing profiled Saskatoon city councillor Charlie Clark in our national edition. He had caught our eye for...
By Laura Pfeifer
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered