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Book Review—Good Urbanism: Six Steps to Creating Prosperous Places
Author: Nan Ellin (Island Press, 2013) In cities around the world, a consensus is developing among urban planners, placemakers and communities about the...
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World’s tallest building approved for constuction in China
This 220-storey building will be home to 30,000 people and might just change the way cities are built. Sky City, has just received approval from the...
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Vintage Streetcar
Vintage TTC streetcar on its way to Union subway station, Toronto / By Jae Yang Contribute your photos to Spacing’s Flickr pool
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Visual Thoughts #28
Last VT image: Cherry blossoms in full bloom along 10th Ave., Vancouver. *** Erick Villagomez is one of the founding editors at Spacing Vancouver. He is...
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More than 50% of humanity lives inside this white circle
Recently this map-graphic surfaced on Reddit and put into perspective Asia’s population dominance. Inside the circle, which includes China, India...
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St. George Subway Station
Subway trains arrive in both directions at St. George subway station, Toronto / By James Cook Contribute your photos to Spacing’s Flickr pool
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Bulgarian apartment building creates harmony between old and new
As the beautiful red-brick apartment building stretches up, it seems to bend light around the edges, creating the illusion of a paper thin building. Aedes...
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Cycling Think & Do Tank — Humble bicycles and high stakes subways: the 5km gap
This post, using Toronto’s Ward 25 as a case study, by researcher Trudy Ledsham is part of Spacing‘s partnership with the Toronto Cycling Think and...
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Book Review – A Guide to Archigram 1961-74
Author: Dennis Crompton (Princeton Architectural Press, 2012) At a time when the world of architecture and design is struggling to become more dynamic and...
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Green Roofs Collective: An In-Depth Exploration of Green Roofs from the Details to their Global Context
Green, or living roofs, are becoming more and more popular in cities as a result of the many benefits they can provide. These include mitigating and...
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Project a movie on this energy-generating bike made from garbage
This stationary bike, made from old benches, supermarket crates and bed frames is a part of series of bikes created to generate enough electricity to...
By Jonathan Zettel -
Roy Thomson Hall
Detail of the glass and steel dome of Roy Thomson Hall, Toronto / By Brian Carson Contribute your photos to Spacing’s Flickr pool
By Julie Fish
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered