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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...
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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...
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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...
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Investing in Cycling 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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Results Driven Land-Use Planning
In North America, cities are increasingly burdened with a growing list of required infrastructure maintenance and replacements. With few options for...
By Slow Streets
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered