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Book Reviews From the Stacks – Le Corbusier: Homme de Lettres
“Known for his modern architecture, numbering fewer than sixty buildings, Charles Edouard Jeanneret/Le Corbusier (1887-1965) also wrote some fifty...
By Sean Ruthen -
Visual Thoughts #48
Last VT image: Small building, Deception Pass State Park, Washington, US. *** Erick Villagomez is one of the founding editors at Spacing Vancouver. He is...
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Book Review: The Bohemian Guide to Urban Cycling
Author: Sean Benesh (Urban Loft Publishers, 2014) Urban cycling is not a new concept in many Canadian cities. It seems like at any particular point in...
By Jeremy Senko -
New Slow City: Living Simply in the World’s Fastest City
Author: William Powers (New World Library, 2014) Every once and a while I get handed a book that changes my perspective on some of the ways I do things in...
By Jeremy Senko -
The Building Blocks of Bike Culture: Social Engagement and Promotional Strategies
When it comes to building a bike culture, we here in Canada often look upon the “live-work velodromes” of Amsterdam, Copenhagen, and the like with...
By George Poulos -
Travelogue: CityLab 2014
Recently, Los Angeles became the subject of much attention as the civically-minded flocked to the city to take part in this year’s CityLab conference...
By Adrienne Comars -
Book Review – Twenty Buildings Every Architect Should Understand
Author: Simon Unwin (Routledge, 2010) At a time when meaningful analyses of the built environment seems to be suffering from extreme attrition, Simon...
By Erick Villagomez -
Household waste in urban space
You may have heard that Edmonton’s downtown and central neighbourhoods are experiencing a renaissance; new growth is occurring in both population and...
By Kyle Witiw -
Book Review – Creative Block: Advice and Projects from 50 Successful Artists
Author: Daniella Krysa (Chronicle Books, 2014) Creative Block took me a while to read. Not because it was difficult or heavy or even long. It took me a...
By Jeremy Senko -
Reclaiming neighbourhood planning
A Community Planning Board (CPB) can be an effective democratic platform to support meaningful citizen engagement and push forth social justice and equity...
By Mojan Jianfar -
Book Review: Derrida for Architects
Even the most prosaic oppositions of architecture can be cast in terms that indicate something is really at stake. This is Derrida for architects. There...
By Sean Ruthen -
Is Uber part of the Sharing Economy?
For years now, long term changes in consumer priorities, coupled with the global economic downturn, have driven many innovators to test new business...
By Glyn Bowerman
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered