By Laura Kozak
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Book Review From the Stacks: Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change
To Jane Jacob’s three traditional urban values of civic space, human scale and diversity, the current environmental imperative adds two more: conservation...
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Book Review: Now I Sit Me Down
Author: Witold Rybczynski (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016) Following in the lineage of his acclaimed works Home: A Short History of an Idea (1986) and...
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Book Review From The Stacks – The Skytrain Explorer: Heritage Walks From Every Station
John Atkin (Steller Press Ltd., 2005) Everything is walking distance if you have the time. -Steven Wright, Comedian and Actor This is how Vancouver...
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Book Review From The Stacks – The Wayfinding Handbook: Information Design for Public Places
Author: David Gibson (Princeton Architectural Press, 2009) Navigation is a sophisticated and complex practice, but also one that we participate in every...
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Book Review From The Stacks – Urban Future Manifestos
Editors: Peter Noever and Kimberli Meyer (Hatje Cantz, 2010) Urban Future Manifestos, produced by the MAK Urban Futures Initiative, is a collection of...
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Book Review From The Stacks: Proceed and Be Bold
Author: Andrea Oppenheimer Dean (Princeton Architectural Press – 2005) Proceed and Be Bold checks in on Rural Studio under the steerage of Andrew...
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Book Review From the Stacks – Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with Nature
Author: Douglas Farr (Wiley, 2008) Written by Douglas Farr, the Core Committee Chair of the US Green Building Council’s relatively new LEED for...
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Participate: Design with User-Generated Content
Participatory design requires user content for completion. Rather than deliver clean, finished products to a passive audience, participatory designers...
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Geometry of Design
Author: Kim Elam (Princeton Architectural Press, 2011) “The purpose of Geometry of Design is not to quantify aesthetics through geometry, but rather to...
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Ping Pong Party and Opening | 222 East Georgia
This week, 221A Artist Run Centre is pleased to open the doors of a 7000 square foot facility located at 222 E. Georgia St. that includes presentation...
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Urban Cartography – A public course at Emily Carr University of Art + Design
This fall, Spacing contributor Laura Kozak will be teaching Urban Cartography at Emily Carr University of Art + Design . Learn to critically read and...
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Model Making
Author: Megan Werner (Princeton Architectural Press, 2011) “A physical model is the material embodiment of an idea, and therein lies its magic. By...