By Erick Villagomez
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S101S – Describing Building Types: Why They Matter
Why is an understanding of building types important to urban planning and design? What aspects of planning are they connected to? Given that urban...
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S101S: Explaining Transit-Oriented Development: Benefits and Drawbacks
What is Transit-Oriented Development and what are its benefits and drawbacks? Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) has become so common within urban...
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S101S—Understanding Residential Density: FSR, Building Setbacks and Height Regulations
What is Floor Space Ratio (FSR) and how does it interact with building setbacks and height regulations to create building forms and the ‘look and feel’ of...
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Inequality, Gender, Intersectionality, Gentrification, and the City: An interview with Leslie Kern
Cities are political and economic centers of power. This comes with its fair share of challenges like poverty and inequality. Spacing Vancouver...
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Talking Landscape Architecture: An Interview with Marc Treib
Anne Whiston Spirn once described landscape as “...a language derived from the core activity of landscape architecture: artfully shaping, from...
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Ken Sim’s Swagger and the Language of Inequality
swagger noun plural swaggers : an arrogantly self-confident way of walking: an act or instance of swaggering : arrogant or conceitedly self-assured...
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S101S – Understanding Density: Net vs. Gross Density
What is the difference between “net” and “gross” density, and how do these relate to urban planning? In Understanding Residential...
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S101S – Understanding Residential Density: Why is it so Confusing?
What is residential density and why is it so confusing? Residential density is critical to urban planning. It refers to the number of people living in a...
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On Interior Urbanism: An Interview with Jeremy Senko
Interiors and urbanism are often considered opposites of one another. But are they so different? Spacing Vancouver’s Erick Villagomez recently had a...
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S101 Series: Introduction and Call
If you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it a thousand times: cities are complex. But that doesn’t mean they need to be complicated. Complexity refers to...
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The Tower Default – Pt 2
In 1972, Leslie Martin and Lionel March published Urban Space and Structure—an influential book featuring a series of essays written in the late 60s...
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Broadway Plan Reflections
This piece started with a simple aspiration: to collect a diversity of meaningful 100-200 word reflections on Broadway Plan processes and outcomes...