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Overhaul or demolish 24 Sussex?
Much has recently been discussed about the restoration or demolition and replacement of 24 Sussex Drive in Ottawa. Like many old buildings, this house has...
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Urban forestry and the greening of Canadian cities
Call it the second wave of urban greening: hot on the heels of urban farming, urban forestry is emerging as the new frontier of sustainable urban planning...
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Event: Re-Imagining Urban Form and Policy Symposium, Call for Abstracts
Re-Imagining Urban Form and Policy in a Global Economy – The (Im)possibility of Design March 10-12, 2016 | University of British Columbia, Vancouver View...
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Critical Elements to Make Pedestrian Streets Work
We currently dedicate an excessive amount of street public space for the movement and storage of automobiles. We can bring dignity to our streets where...
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Message to Trudeau: Voters spoke loud and clear for cities
A month before the election, Calgary’s hugely popular mayor Naheed Nenshi told a reporter: “Whoever gets transit right, whoever figures out how to improve...
By Alexandra Flynn -
Book Review: A Line in the Andes/Una Linea En Los Andes
Editor: Felipe Correa & Ramiro Almeida (Applied Research + Design Publishing, 2013) “What country is that?” is a common question I get as people...
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ELECTION: What does each party say about city issues?
As voting day rapidly approaches for the 2015 federal election, Spacing has been tracking the buzzwords for some urban concepts on the four federal...
By Lana Hall -
LORINC: Harper’s failure of target marketed politics
As the federal election stumbles towards a weary conclusion, it may not be an overstatement to say this contest will long be remembered for the way in...
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Book Review – Busby: Architecture’s New Edges
Centuries from now, when historians look back to the beginning of the Anthropocene, a time when we realized that human beings had become the dominant...
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Book Review – Roads Were Not Built For Cars
Author: Carlton Reid (Island Press, 2015) There has been a lot of discussion recently around getting more cyclists on the roads, be it for health...
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Call for submissions: MAQ ‘Young Critic in Architecture’ competition
The Maison de l’architecture du Québec is pleased to announce the fourth edition of the MAQ Young Critic in Architecture Competition (Concours Jeune...
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Book Review – Timber in the City: Design and Construction in Mass Timber
Author: Andrew Bernheimer (Oro Editions, 2015) About two and a half years ago I had the opportunity in my last year of University to do an internship with...
By Jeremy Senko
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered