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Book Review From The Stacks – The Miller|Hull Partnership: Public Works
“The Miller|Hull Partnership’s energy-conscious designs, love of local materials, and structural expressiveness helped define the essence of a new and...
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Book Review: Women, Modernity, and Landscape Architecture
Editors: Sonja Dümpelmann and John Beardsley (Routledge, 2015) During the through the Depression and Post-War eras, two coalescing movements—women joining...
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Book Review – Cartographic Grounds: Projecting the Landscape Imaginary
Authors: Jill Desimini and Charles Waldheim (Princeton Architectural Press, 2016) Reflecting on the history of humankind, one is hard-pressed to find a...
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Canadian judge acknowledges anti-black racism in court
A Toronto judge has made history by explicitly considering anti-black racism as a mitigating factor in sentencing a young drug offender. Rather than...
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Book Review: Wild By Design
Author: Margie Ruddick (Island Press, 2016) Wild By Design: Strategies for Creating Life-Enhancing Landscapes recounts the work of Margie Ruddick’s...
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Book Review: Citizen City
Edited by Robert Enright (Blueimprint Publishers, 2016) “The projects compiled in this book are the culmination of over 25 years of architectural...
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Book Review – Planning Canada: A Case Study Approach
Editor: Ren Thomas (Oxford University Press, 2016) One of the easiest ways to learn something is by seeing how it was done before, somewhere else, with a...
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The twisted myth of car ownership in Scarborough
This post by Trudy Ledsham, is part of Spacing’s partnership with the Toronto Cycling Think & Do Tank at the University of Toronto. Trudy is a...
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Book Review: Generative Design
Author: Asterios Agkathidis (Laurence King Publishing, 2016) In my thesis project in university, I used a form of ‘algorithmic design’ to create a...
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Toronto’s new Cycling Network Plan: What’s in store for 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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Book Review: A Burglar’s Guide to the City
Author: Geoff Manaugh (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016) Cities are many things to many different people. They are hubs of creativity and bring together a...
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Book Reviews: Hobohemia and the Crucifixion Machine
Author: Todd McCallum (AU Press, 2014) In High School film studies, I once made a documentary about homelessness in Vancouver. We had learned about...
By Jeremy Senko
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered