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Urban Planet: The plight of Paris’ bicyclettes
With recent news of the financial woes of the Bixi bike-share programs in cities across Canada, Paris’ community bike program, Vélib‘, has suffered...
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Cycling Think & Do Tank: Cyclists, Public Space and Auto-Amnesia
This post by Trudy Ledsham is part of Spacing‘s partnership with the Toronto Cycling Think and Do Tank at the University of Toronto. Find out more about...
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Urban Planet: A building 144 years in the making
In our world of contemporary architecture and building, it has come to be expected by clients and the public alike to receive not only plans, sections and...
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Book Review: Elemental – Incremental Housing and Participatory Design Manual
Author: Alejandro Aravena and Andrés Iacobelli (Hatje Cantz, 2013) The creation of long term, socially sustainable, culturally appropriate housing is a...
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Urban Planet: Kanye the architect
Has the ‘starchitect’ shifted from the architect becoming a star to the star becoming an architect? Kanye West has revealed his desire to delve into the...
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Book Review – Freehand Drawing & Discovery: Urban Sketching and Concept Drawing for Designers
Author: James Richards (Wiley, 2013) I honestly cannot recall the number of times I entered into an argument with a peer over the case of computer-based...
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Book Review, From the Stacks: Subnature: Architecture’s Other Environments
Author: David Gissen (Princeton Architectural Press, 2009) Nature is ever present in our daily lives, Yet when we think and speak of “nature”...
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Visual Thoughts #32
Last VT image: Landscape in Bolivar Province near Guaranda, Ecuador. *** Erick Villagomez is one of the founding editors at Spacing Vancouver. He is also...
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Cycling Think & Do Tank: An urban-suburban-exurban-rural Canadian riding home story
This post by Katie Wittmann is part of Spacing‘s partnership with the Toronto Cycling Think and Do Tank at the University of Toronto. Find out more about...
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Storage Urbanism
Storage. Along with money, it seems to be something people never have enough of. The past half century has seen the doubling of the consumption rate of...
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Chester Hill Lookout
Chester Hill Lookout is one of Toronto’s best hidden gems. Located just north of Danforth and west of Broadview, the lookout presents a majestic...
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Rotary dial phone skylight
The rotary dial phone skylight at U of T’s Faculty of Music, Toronto / By Vik Pahwa Contribute your photos to Spacing’s Flickr pool
By Julie Fish
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered