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Book Review – Blue Urbanism: Exploring Connections Between Cities and Oceans
Author: Timothy Beatley (Island Press, 2014) Humanity has an intrinsic sense of what our urban world entails. When we hear the word urbanism, we think of...
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Bangor, Maine — Beyond the outlet stores & how a small-sized city is nudging back at bad planning
Travelling up the I-95… It was a sweltering Saturday, late morning. I was sitting in a deli in downtown Bangor, and while downtown was not exactly...
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Playground
Photo by Jonathan Castellino Looking at a playground through the windows of a closed down school, Toronto Contribute your photos to Spacing’s Flickr pool
By Julie Fish -
What Rob Ford can teach us about populism in Canada & some strategies to counter it
EDITOR: We’re pleased to publish this guest post by Frank Cunningham, an emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Political Science at University of...
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Ryerson University convocation
Photo by elsie.nisonen Graduation at Ryerson University, Toronto Contribute your photos to Spacing’s Flickr pool
By Julie Fish -
Urban Scavengers: Ottawa’s ‘Awesome Art Hunt’
If you happened to have been looking in some of Ottawa’s urban nooks and crannies as of late, you may have been surprised to have found a wooden canvas or...
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Book Review: Analysing Architecture (Fourth Edition)
Author: Simon Unwin (Routledge, 2014) At a time when increasing complexity seems to be the overriding direction in all fields, lucidly describing the...
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Visual Thoughts #42
Last VT image: The Dominion Building at sunset – Vancouver, BC. *** Erick Villagomez is one of the founding editors at Spacing Vancouver. He is also an...
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Kensington Market
Photo by Martinho Rainy day in Kensington Market, Toronto Contribute your photos to Spacing’s Flickr pool
By Julie Fish -
Downtown underpass
Photo by Lisa on the Run Light and shadows, Toronto Contribute your photos to Spacing’s Flickr pool
By Julie Fish -
Infrastructure and our way of life: lessons from the Atlanta BeltLine
Ryan Gravel, a senior urban designer with Perkins+Will who has helped to lead the design of the Atlanta BeltLine, spoke at an event hosted by the Centre...
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BOOK REVIEW – Site Design for Multifamily Housing: Creating Livable, Connected Neighborhoods
Authors: Nico Larco, Kristin Kelsey, and Amanda West (Island Press, 2014) Given multi-unit residential housing accounts for the vast majority of the work...
By Jeremy Senko
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered