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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...
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Book Review From the Stacks – Seven Rules for Sustainable Communities: Design Strategies for the Post-carbon World
These days it has become nearly impossible to open a newspaper or read a website without encountering numerous doomsday predictions of our bleak-looking...
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McAdam, New Brunswick and the struggle of small communities
Many small towns, communities, and rural areas face challenges with the decline of traditional industries such as forestry. Often, economic development...
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Funiculars of Portugal
Outside of Quebec City and Niagara Falls, Canada is a funicular desert. Edmonton is exploring construction of a funicular for access to the River Valley...
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Book Review From The Stacks – Narrow Houses: New Directions in Efficient Design
Author: Avi Friedman (Princeton Architectural Press, 2010) Avi Friedman is an architecture professor at McGill University who has been researching...
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Book Review – City by City: Dispatches from the American Metropolis
Edited by Keith Gessen and Stephen Squibb (n+1 / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015) When people write about their city it is frequently an opinion piece for...
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Book Review – The West Coast Modern House
The West Coast Modern House chronicles the development of mid-century modern Vancouver residential architecture and its continued influence on...
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Cost Effective Improvements for Better Transit Today
Canadian municipalities are confronted with an interesting predicament – our cities are growing at unprecedented rates. For municipalities, this...
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Visual Thoughts #57
Last VT image: Jericho Beach on a sunny summer day, Vancouver, BC. *** Erick Villagomez is one of the founding editors at Spacing Vancouver. He is also an...
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Book Review From The Stacks: Reservoir
Photos by Bas Princen, edited by Moritz Kung (Hatje Cantz, 2011) There is no unexplored territory left on this earth. Our species, and has touched...
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Porch Parade
Summer is the time to get outdoors, and in the same spirit as the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London’s Hyde Park, the City of Vancouver has once again...
By Sean Ruthen
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered