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Book Review – The Public Library: A Photographic Essay
Author: Robert Dawson (Photographer) with Bill Moyers (Foreword)and Ann Patchett (Afterword) – (Princeton Architectural Press, 2014) It is rare to...
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Moving Millennials: how a generation is changing mobility
In the past decade, a term has been tossed around to describe a generation who began coming of age in the early 2000s. Called the “Millennials”, this...
By Melissa Bruntlett -
Book Review – Why I Walk: Taking A Step in the Right Direction
Author: Kevin Klinkenberg (New Society Publishers) Ever since I read Jeff Speck’s Walkable City, I’ve noticed just how many books on walking there...
By Jeremy Senko -
Creating citizen spaces through Indigenous soundscapes
As a little girl, my Dad used to take my little sister and I for long walks in the river valley that winds through Amiskwacî (the nêhiyawêwin [Plains...
By Zoe Todd -
Book Review – Farming Cuba: Urban Agriculture from the Ground Up
Author: Carey Clouse (Princeton Architectural Press, 2014) In light of growing urban populations and diminishing resources, the issues around food...
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La reconversion pas à pas de l’avenue Shamrock, un projet consensuel
De Time-Square au marché Jean-Talon La prolifération de petites placettes éphémères en bordure de rue, plus connues sous le nom de parklets, est...
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Book Review: Urban Acupuncture
Author: Jaime Lerner (Island Press, 2014) Jaime Lerner is a living legend among urbanists. Often mentioned in the same breath is Jane Jacobs and William...
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Hydro Tower
photo by Bryan Bonnici A hundred feet tall, solid metal, protected by a 125kV defense system, Toronto Contribute your photos to Spacing’s Flickr pool
By Julie Fish -
Lawrence West Subway Station
photo by Bryan Bonnici Lawrence West Subway Station Line 1, Toronto Contribute your photos to Spacing’s Flickr pool
By Julie Fish -
La leçon de Bois-Franc
On appelait ça l’avant-garde À la fin des années 1980, le nec plus ultra de l’urbanisme — c’était avant l’agriculture urbaine, les placottoirs et les...
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Book Review: Twenty Minutes in Manhattan
Every morning, the architect and writer Michael Sorkin walks downtown from his Greenwich Village apartment through Washington Square to his Tribeca...
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Humber Bay
photo by Eric Sehr Rock sculptures on the edge of Humber Bay, Toronto Contribute your photos to Spacing’s Flickr pool
By Julie Fish
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered