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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...
By Sean Ruthen -
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 -
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...
By Hassan Arif -
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...
By Elle Ziegler
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered