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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...
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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...
By Alexandre Campeau-Vallée -
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...
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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
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered