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Visual Thoughts #49
Last VT image: Dundas Square Christmas Tree, Toronto. *** Erick Villagomez is one of the founding editors at Spacing Vancouver. He is also an educator...
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Grassroots transit advocacy in Halifax
By Sean Gillis and Scott Edgar Halifax desperately needs better public transit. To be sure, the city would benefit from the decrease in carbon emissions...
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Book Review – Planning for Community Resilience: A Handbook for Reducing Vulnerability to Disasters
Authors: Jamie Hicks Masterson, Walter Gillis Peacock, Shannon S. Van Zandt, Himanshu Grover, Lori Feild Schwarz, John T. Cooper, Jr. (Island Press, 2014...
By Jeremy Senko -
Design Citizens: professional-grassroots urban tactics
For one dreary rainy afternoon this past July, an underpass of Ottawa’s Queensway was overtaken by acoustic guitars and hot pink shag carpets. With...
By Sarah Gelbard -
Book Review: Design School Wisdom
Design School Wisdom was born out of a desire to share the wisdom of design instructors with designers everywhere – students just entering their studies...
By Sean Ruthen -
L’indifférence citoyenne a-t-elle cautionné la période noire de Laval?
En 2005, une étude gouvernementale identifie Laval comme la ville où le taux d’appartenance des citoyens à leur communauté est le plus bas au Canada...
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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
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered