Spacing National

Visual Thoughts #35

Last VT image: The Vancouver “Dingbat” building type, Vancouver, BC. *** Erick Villagomez is one of the founding editors at Spacing Vancouver...

By Erick Villagomez

Green Space

Book Review – The Once and Future World: Nature As It Was, As it Is, As It Could Be

Author: J.B. Mackinnon (Random House, 2013) I was instantaneously drawn to this book for no other reason than the title. I had not read the 100 Mile Diet...

By Jeremy Senko

Urban Design

12 ways to make cities more child-friendly

For far too long, many people have considered family life and urban life as being mutually exclusive. That trend is slowly reversing, as more and more...

By Chris Bruntlett

Photos

225 Richmond St. W.

Former home of the Gelber Brothers Wholesale Woollens and Yard Goods warehouse, Toronto / photo by Vik Pahwa Contribute your photos to Spacing’s...

By Julie Fish

Photos

PATH Entrance

The PATH entrance below Metro Hall, Toronto / photo by BruceK Contribute your photos to Spacing’s Flickr pool

By Julie Fish

Photos

John Irwin House

“These concrete columns were poured, a concrete platform was built on top and then this heritage house was moved from the northwest corner of the...

By Julie Fish

Transit

Anne Golden, Part 3—Transportation: Lessons Learned

[EDITOR’S NOTE: On January 28, 2014, Anne Golden spoke at SFU Vancouver as part of the Rethinking Transportation: New Voices, New Ideas series...

By Yuri Artibise

Photos

Cat on the Subway

A man and his cat on the subway, College subway station, Toronto / photo by Martin Reis Contribute your photos to Spacing’s Flickr pool

By Julie Fish

Features

Book Review – Rural Studio: Samuel Mockbee and an Architecture of Decency

Authors: Andrea Oppenheimer Dean, Timothy Hursley (Princeton Architectural Press, 2002) In his 1952 novel East of Eden, John Steinbeck took on an argument...

By Jeremy Senko