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Urban Planet: Outdoor Ad Ban in São Paulo
Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
By Hilary Best -
Material Strategies: Innovative Applications in Architecture
Author: Blaine Brownell, Princeton Architectural Press (2012) Architecture is the fulfillment of a spatial premise by way of material substance...
By Larraine Henning -
Price Points: A Hint of What Was to Come
Where’s this, what’s inside, and why does it look like this? . . According to the one discreet sign tucked under the...
By Gordon Price -
Go East, Young City, Security and Aesthetic improvements
“The Burns Block is named for its original owner and builder, Patrick Burns of P. Burns & Company, who had it built in 1909 as the headquarters...
By Sean Ruthen -
Urban Planet: Extending the Lives of Bridges
Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
By Hilary Best -
100 Years Ago Today: Grandview Theatre Opens
On February 12th, 1912, Thomas Shiels opened the Grandview Theatre movie house at 1712 Commercial. It is the white-arched building in the middle of this...
By Jak King -
Urban Planet: Demolition Dilemmas
Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites...
By Hilary Best -
Sim City: Week One in Spacington
It’s not much of 21st century urban city yet, but in the first week of Spacington’s developments we have focused on a couple things. With...
By Dylan Collie -
Urban Planet: Pedestrian Signals
Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
By Hilary Best -
Neighbourhood Watch
A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. Longboarders are not very happy in the District of North Vancouver with proposed changes...
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Urban Planet: Walking, talking and texting
Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
By Hilary Best -
Old Buildings and New Design: Architectural Transformations
Author: Charles Bloszies (Princeton Architectural Press, 2011) “Design integrity is essential for exemplary architecture” – it is with this philosophy...
By Elle Ziegler