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The Costs We Don’t See
Vancouver’s 2026 Budget and the Politics of Austerity
By Erick Villagomez -
Nostalgia about neighbourhood retail is not a strategy
The City's heavily compromised decision on neighbourhood retail may result in no new neighbourhood retail
By John Lorinc -
UCS #76: Does Zero Mean Zero?
See our Launch and Introduction about the launch of the © Urban Cartoon Syndicate and the announcement by CityHallWatch. *** Related Readings: Cost of...
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Treading Lightly on the Mountain: SFU’s New Gibson Art Museum
Located at the east end of the SFU mountaintop campus and sitting beside a mature stand of trees lining its central promenade, visitors can appreciate how...
By Sean Ruthen -
UCS #75: Planning Department Disposals
See our Launch and Introduction about the launch of the © Urban Cartoon Syndicate and the announcement by CityHallWatch. *** Related Readings: Vancouver’s...
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Notes from Nice and London
In 1864, Fydor Dostoevsky wrote his seminal Notes from Underground, a novella exploring existentialism and alienation in a large city – in his case...
By Sean Ruthen -
Do Toronto’s small urban spaces have a social life?
William Whyte's classic 1980 film, The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces, remains as relevant today as it did 45 years ago
By John Lorinc -
Architecture and Design Film Festival 2025 Top Ten
My Critix Pix of Filmfest Flix
By Derek DeLand -
Gerrard Street East Part 1, 2023-2024
Photographer Peter MacCallum documents a main street awaiting large-scale redevelopment
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The Overhead: Indigenous-led housing
Spacing and the Balanced Supply of Housing research node proudly present The Overhead: Understanding Canada’s Affordable Housing Crisis, a special podcast series.
By Spacing Radio -
Week of Learning with Bruntletts
A Personal Summary
By mollybarkowsky -
OP-ED: Electric Vehicles and the Federal Sales Standard
Are we focused on the wrong EVs?
By Albert Koehl
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered