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Parks are tools for transforming a city: Q&A with David Escobar-Arango
David Escobar-Arango is the keynote speaker Park People’s 2016 Park Summit taking place on Saturday, March 5th. This interview provides a sneak peek...
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Book Review – Slow Manifesto | Lebbeus Woods Blog
Edited by Clare Jacobson, Princeton Architectural Press (2015) “The purposes of this website are several – to provide access to my projects and writings...
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Travel in Nunatsiavut, Labrador is a little different
Travelling in the winter can be a pain, it’s also just part of being Canadian. While we complain about winter driving and delayed flights, in most...
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VIDEO: How Driverless Cars will Change Cities
Why some say driverless cars won’t just change the way we commute, but the way we live. (via CBC | The National)
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Event: Re-Imagining Urban Form and Policy in a Global Economy – Abstract submission due
This is a reminder you have until January 15, 2016 to submit an abstract to this exciting international symposium titled Re-Imagining Urban Form and...
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Book Review: House Shumiatcher
Written by Leslie Van Duzer, UBC SALA West Coast Modern House Series (ORO Editions, 2015) This is the story of a house, designed by...
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Event: Re-Imagining the city – The (im)possibility of Design forum, March 10/11
Exactly forty years ago, Vancouver hosted the first UN Habitat Conference. In 1976, cities were struggling to survive, global warming was only feared by a...
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Book Review: Ladders (2nd edition)
Author: Albert Pope (Princeton Architectural Press, 2015) “The contemporary city, the city that is at this moment under construction, is...
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Proceed with caution on federal infrastructure plans
During the federal election campaign, Justin Trudeau promised major funding for infrastructure projects. There is no question that such projects are...
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What does Toronto’s new bike plan offer 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 – The Disaster Profiteers
Author: John C. Mutter (St. Martin’s Press, 2015) The Disaster Profiteers: How Natural Disasters Make the Rich Richer and the Poor Even Poorer is...
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Book Review – 100 Diagrams That Changed the World
It all begins with a diagram. In architecture, it is the grand design of the floor plan; in mathematics, it is the graphic representation of an algebraic...
By Sean Ruthen
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered