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Book Review From The Stacks: Cotton Worldwide
Authors: Hans Peter Jost, Christina Kleineidam (Lars Müller Publishers, 2009) Cotton Worldwide is an eye-opening portrait of the international cotton...
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SPACING: Celebrate release of summer issue & Jane Jacobs Prize winners
WHAT: Summer 2015 issue release party & Jane Jacobs Prize ceremony WHEN: Wed., July 15th, 7-11:30pm (Prize ceremony runs from 8-8:30pm) WHERE: Royal...
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Book Review – Designed for the Future: 80 Practical Ideas for a Sustainable World
Author: Jared Green (Princeton Architectural Press, 2015) Sometimes the strongest way to get a message across is through simplicity. When dealing with a...
By Jeremy Senko -
Book Review – New Museums in China
Museums in China are booming. Their unique forms and innovative structures stand out among the more mundane buildings of China’s explosive urban growth...
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Cartographically Speaking: Canada by Land Cover Type
The series of maps below are a Canadian version of a project called “Minimal Maps” by Michael Pecirno. The original project took a simple view of land...
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Accidental Parkland: Toronto Ravine & waterfront documentary + 100in1day mapping event
Hot drone action! White water torrents! Underground rivers! An urban region of six million people and more coming! We need your help to tell an exciting...
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Book Review From The Stacks – Convivial Urban Spaces: Creating Affective Public Places
Author: Henry Shaftoe (EarthScan, 2008) Henry Shaftoe’s Convivial Urban Spaces: Creating Affective Public Places is a thorough and informative...
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Book Review From The Stacks – Learning From Japan: Single Story Urbanism
“SANAA’s work does not introduce order as do those mid-century architectures to which it is routinely compared; rather it imposes a fine disorder and...
By Sean Ruthen -
Rolling Youth into Toronto’s Bicycle Renaissance
This post by Jeffrey Trieu is part of Spacing‘s partnership with the Toronto Cycling Think and Do Tank at the University of Toronto. Find out more about...
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Visual Thoughts #54
Last VT image: Trout Lake Community Centre, Vancouver. *** Erick Villagomez is one of the founding editors at Spacing Vancouver. He is also an educator...
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Book Review From The Stacks: A Guidebook to Contemporary Architecture in Vancouver
“To observe the city’s architecture is to enter into the optimistic vision of its planners and designers and so to engage in the work-in-progress...
By Sean Ruthen -
Use Modular Design To Foster Flexible and Incremental City Building
At Slow Streets we embrace a philosophy of quicker, lighter and cost effective infrastructure. We believe that this approach can yield the same results...
By Slow Streets
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered